The Tea Party Movement Is a Middle Class Revolt - Peter Roff (usnews.com)

The Tea Party Movement Is a Middle Class Revolt - Peter Roff (usnews.com):

Richard Nixon popularized the idea that there existed in America a “silent majority” at odds with the values and vision of the leftist radicals who put the nation through a period of prolonged social upheaval back in the 1960s.

Today the “silent majority” is silent no more. As seen in the Tea Party movement the middle class, on whose shoulders the heavy burden of the nation’s economic health and well-being fall, are beginning to rise up."