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While this may look like a silly question, it isn't. There was a very famous club in Boston in the 1960s and 1970s called the Boston Tea Party and some of the most famous rock stars performed there. If that is what you are referring to (there is a recent book by Carter Alan that mentions Boston's role in rock history), the club took its name from the historical event during the run-up to the Revolutionary War.

But if you are asking what the "Tea Party" has to do with the Boston Tea Party, the answer is not very much. The founders of the modern-day Tea Party are conservative Republicans (mostly) who believe the American government is out of control, much like the colonists believed the British government was. But there the similarities end. The claims of the modern-day Tea Party are mainly rhetorical and political, since the US government does provide for representation, we do have a democracy, and whether or not you like the current president, he was legally elected (twice). The Boston Tea Party referred to the belief by the colonists that England was taxing them and NOT giving them any representation in the British Parliament; that is certainly not the case today. You may not like the current government, but there are elections and there are opportunities to vote for different candidates than are serving in congress now. That was not possible during the era prior to the Revolutionary War.

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