Jeff Koopersmith takes the lid off the so-called “apolitical” teapot – and sees within a harbinger of grief.

Even though I am a  large-minded, liberal and one who might be described as a dreamer, I keep one eye on the tea party movement with great interest and concern.

I worry that some of its members are looking for another celebratory mannequin, or an excuse for one.

I am troubled, as with the GOP, that too many bigots are tea party activists – and that many of them are willing to demonstrate their radicalism openly and ferociously. The Tea Party also seems henpecked in doctrine by anti-abortion groups, the National  Rifle Association, as well as others far beyond the norm in opinion or action.

Worse, the tea party – despite its constant denials is controlled by the right wing of the Republican Party along with ultra-Christian conservative groups – some of whom have wobbly reputations at best.

Thus, even though there are simple patrioteers involved in the tea party movement, their thrust is dominated by others far more muscular, organized, and dangerous.

The most egregious element linked to the tea party is big business, which through its contributions, bribes, and cash pushed under the table and over to both parties, but favoring the Republicans this cycle, has trickle-down control of the tea party movement.

One need only look at multiple tea party websites to see that groups like Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum. Schlafly is a throwback to the Eisenhower days and still preaching to her own choir.  Added are:

• Judicial Watch, which likes to bring lawsuits against anything or anyone perceived as leftist;
• The Leadership Institute, led by Neocon mentor to young dirty tricksters Morton Blackwell;
• a lesser-known gaggle called Vision America, which purports to “inform, encourage and mobilize pastors and their congregations to be proactive in restoring Judeo-Christian values”; and
• various business roundtables, the biggest donors to tea party events in terms of cash and dogma.

And then there are TeaPartyNation.com's so-called “strategic partners:”

• SurgeUSA;
• Parental Rights;
• Townhall.com;
• The Phil Valentine Show;
• Lady Libertas;
• Hands Off Liberty!;
• Hot Air;
• writer-dimwit Michelle Maglalang Malkin;
• WWTN Talk 99.7;
• 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America;
• Proclaiming Justice to the Nations;
• Right Soup;
• Smart Girl Politics;
• Techometry;
• Sons of Liberty Riders;
• The Freshmen 50;
• Mark Dean – a bigoted cartoonist specializing in monkey-like drawings of President Obama;
• Vets For Sarah Palin; and
• Tea Party Emporium, which sells tea bag “jewelry” because teabags symbolize the ignition of the American Revolution!

Wow, there's something to think about: all of these “partners” are far-right neofascist groups, individuals, or businesses who would like to drive the American morals back to the 18th Century for better or worse.

Tea party leaders are also quick to say that they are not a political party – only a group of concerned Americans with similar agendas – mostly centered around problems with tax increases, and “the folly” that 45 million Americans should not be covered by government sponsored health insurance – the cost of which might be spread among all Americans. There is a nervure of greed supporting the Tea Party establishment that should be remediated as it plays into just those groping hands they claim to despise.

Experts whom I trust claim the national and local police have promptly taken an interest in the grungier elements of the Tea Party movement. This coaxes a recollection of my time on California campuses in the 1960s when there were always FBI agents posing as news photographers or interested tourists snapping one head shot after another of those in the leadership of the SDS or other preeminent left leaning protestors.

Already Washington, under Bush-Cheney, had made rough arrangements to use the National Guard in "troubled" cities such as Detroit if "the people" became disgusted enough to turn to violence.  What Mr. Obama is doing about this I don’t know.

Hope as I may I cannot see a clear way for elected officials to hurdle the muckle of goodies offered them from corporate treasuries.  These political men and women are simply human and highly subject to the apple in the garden.

On its face and certainly after the latest Supreme Court abomination pouring billions into the American corporate graft and bribery soup, a prognosis for honest government is poor.

What is chilling is that just that realization among tea partiers and others armed with just a single rock throwing vandal could start what I might think might be a befuddled interclass war that could make the rocky 60s look like your grandmother’s tea party.

Tell me, how would the “enemy” be identified?

Jeff Koopersmith is a leading international consultant on political communication, polling, lobbying, American and European commercial politics, and the founding editor of American Politics Journal.