No, I think the action is roughly at the same level. Peaceniks protesting the war by chanting "Hell no, we won't go!" & occupying the offices of assorted college presidents vs Teapartiers shouting down their elected representatives and anybody who disagrees with the TPers at said representatives' public meetings.
But the level of rhetoric is (was?) definitely worse now. Back then nobody was claiming, oh, that the president was having 18 yr old men kidnapped off the streets for the express purpose of shipping them to Vietnam. But the TPers didn't hesitate to accuse Obama et al of proposing "Death Panels" to supposedly "decide if (Sarah Palin's son) Trig should live".
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Date: 2011-01-20 02:46 am (UTC)But the level of rhetoric is (was?) definitely worse now. Back then nobody was claiming, oh, that the president was having 18 yr old men kidnapped off the streets for the express purpose of shipping them to Vietnam. But the TPers didn't hesitate to accuse Obama et al of proposing "Death Panels" to supposedly "decide if (Sarah Palin's son) Trig should live".