Chuck Collins: How to talk to a Tea Party activist

Progressives and tea party activists: Where we agree, disagree, and how we can find common good.

  We heard a lot about the tea party movement on Tax Day. They were angry, and some of that anger at the tax system is justified.

  Like all social movements, the tea party wave is not monolithic. There are hard-core libertarians, white supremacists, and partisan Republicans that are not interested in dialogue. But in my conversations with rank-and-file tea party activists, there are important points of common ground.