My Country, 'Tis of Me.

The author discusses the Tea Party political movement of 2010. He compares the movement with the student protests of the 1960s, finding significant differences. He argues that the 1960s protests involved young people whereas the Tea Partiers are middle-aged or old, and that the 1960s addressed the Vietnam war and had a strain of idealism, while the Tea Party goals are self-interested and vindictive. He notes that there is nothing patriotic about whines and complaints offers without solutions.