By refuting the above picture. Apparently, if your political views are moderate, then you are still considered a liberal. I read the picture, decided to put up my response, and within minutes of posting it, I ended up getting about 10 people telling me that I'm an Obama dicksucker (Even though I have my political affiliation public as a registered Independent), and the Tea Party page removing my comment as well as blocking me from their page. Here was my response: "This is inherently right, but also wrong for the wrong reasons. The reason why this is correct, historically, was because back then, the values of the Republicans and Democrats are pretty much the opposite of what they are today. Back then, the Democrats were fighting for individual state rights as well as for slavery, but that was because a big portion of the South back then was under the Democratic flag. It is also right about the Civil Rights act, but the Democrats in the South even in the 1960's supported segregation. When the Civil Rights Act went into effect, the Democrats of the South (As well as all around) effectively dropped their flags and raised up the Republican flag, while on the opposite end, the Republicans dropped their flags and picked up the Democrat flag. In a nutshell, however, and looking at it from a third party view (As well as a first generation immigrant view), it was an entire cluster-blam!- of just trying to get the minority votes, with the new Democratic party winning, since they were the former Republicans. So in essence, the label is correct historically, but value-wise AND from a neutral point of view? It's inherently wrong. If you want to do a quick history lesson, be sure to fact-check and report the whole thing, and not just what will make you look good. Here are a few links to show you that your party is wrong in its stance: http://www.livescience.com/34241-democratic-republican-parties-switch-platforms.html http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/edgeofthewest/2010/05/20/when-and-to-an-extent-why-did-the-parties-switch-places/ http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/republicans-party-of-civil-rights http://www.factcheck.org/2008/04/blacks-and-the-democratic-party/" I don't know how someone can read that entire blurb within the span of 5 minutes, given that the layout for comments in Facebook are abysmal, and pairing it along with the links in the end and perusing through their work. I'm suspecting more that the moment they saw, "Wrong for the wrong reasons", they stopped reading there and started with the name calling. The Tea Party is also becoming the new Republicans, as parties pretty much switch a lot in America in terms of values, while the moderate Republicans are joining the Libertarians and the Independents. Ladies and gentlemen, [url=https://www.facebook.com/TheTeaParty.net]these will be your new Republicans sooner than you think.[/url] tl;dr: Tea Party page gets butthurt about getting the full version of history, they block out any opposing opinions after they start with their tirade of insults. To add discussion into this rather than it being a blog post, why do you think people tend to block out what they don't want to hear rather than actually learning from their mistakes and moving on? Politically, this is a common occurrence, so why do you think this happens? No one is always right, or perfect.