Yah, I was going to ask which tea party, but you already answered it. It became corrupted as soon as Palin, Beck et al "joined" the fray. But the real movement is alive and well, the Ron Paul faction.
The Republicans have already turned it into a "social conservative" movement. It's the Klan without the sheets. It's not just about taxes.
It's about white supremacy and Christian extremism. The Tea Party was very very very very small when Bush was president. Maybe back then, it was full of libertarians, but now it is not.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.