Thoughts on the Tea Party
If you’ve read anything on this stupid blog you will know that I have been a supporter of the Tea Party. I’ve been to the Nashville Tea Party and made my way to the DC Rally which was basically the big one last year. These days the lame stream media and the not so lame stream media are talking about the tea parties. A lot. Some of it is not very complementary like the latest New York Times hit piece. Some like FoxNews try to give a balanced view of it.
The Tea Party speaks for me. I am the ordinary guy that simply became sick and tired of all the government spend and expansion. I’m not a bigot. I’m not a racist. I’m educated. I simply do not like what is happening to our country. I do believe that there are people in control of our government that believe in social justice. That would prefer us to live in a socialist society. I simply do not share that view. The Tea Party movement allowed me to join with other people to be heard. We were heard but have been ignored.
The Tea Party is not being ignored now. But the left is doing everything it can to dismiss and attack the movement. They are scared of it. But they are also doing a good job of making regular folks think the people attending these movements are a bunch of uneducated racists.
The thing is there are extremists in every group. Left and right. But the people I’ve met at the Tea Party are good folks. Everyday people. They are moms and dads, shop owners, hard workers. They simply love their country and do not stand for what statists believe in. So they/we protest the takeover of the government by the statists on the left…and right. It’s that simple. We believe in strict constitutional adherence as the Founders created.
The interesting thing is that people have begun educating themselves. They have awakened to the the statism that is happening in D.C. Two years ago I was uneducated about what was going on in D.C. I was the exact type of person they expected me to be. I wasn’t terribly knowledgeable about the debt. The deficit. The erosion of my rights. Taxes. But I am educated now. I read everything.
I am an independent. I haven’t registered for any party. I don’t intend to. I will vote for whomever is NOT a statist. I believe in limited government, low taxes, fiscal responsibility and a strong defense. These ideals are not shared by many on the left and right that we have unfortunately voted for. The sooner we can get rid of people like Nancy Pelosi, Alan Grayson, Harry Reid and John McCain the better our country will be.
Anyway, the rise of statism is what awakened me from my ambivalence. I’m glad to be involved now. I’m focused. I should have been more concerned years before. But I am focused now. This is the essence of the Tea Party.
If the so-called leaders of the Tea Party forget people like me, then the movement will fail. It’s not about party affiliation. It’s about supporting the right people to return this country to what the Founders envisioned for us. European Socialism is failing badly. Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland, they are all in danger of failing because of their Socialist policies. Why would we want to change our country into that mess? That is what the Tea Party folks are trying to prevent. The movement has gotten stronger every day. Ironically as it gains credibility it has the potential to lose its soul. Will the “leaders” sell us out for their own power?
I don’t think many in the Tea Party care one bit about party affiliation. That is a problem for the GOP because some Tea Party candidates could come out as a third party and propel the Democrat in office. All I know is I am fighting against statism. If the Tea Party is my vehicle for that then great.
The Tea Party is barely one year old. It started completely in the grass. Who knows what it will grow in to. In every group there are extremists. The Democrats have their liberals loons. The same with the far right fringe. Fine. But the majority of the Tea Party goers are learning their history. Are tired of the federal government and are simply fighting back. Whether the Tea Party survives in its current form is debatable. What is not is that there are millions of people that have been awakened to statism and have simply had enough. Call it whatever you want: racism, hate mongers, whatever. The deal is there are a lot of people (millions and growing) willing to fight against statism, Socialism, tyranny, liberalism. You (statists) will simply have to deal with that.
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