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The tea party is a grassroots effort by a wide cross-section of the American people. Veterans, senior-citizens, people who have lost their jobs due to the heavily-regulated governmental system that has sprung from the massive expansion of government under both the Bush and Obama Presidencies, Moms and Dads, Constitutionalists, both Federalists and Anti-Federalists, patriotic Americans, and many other every day Americans, educated in the proper definition of American thought, human nature and common sense, have stood up to defend and restore our great American system of government. A government meant to be limited in its reach.
The contrast between conservative, limited government and big government progressive Rockefeller Republicans is getting more stark each day. Since the 2010 election, the power-hungry leadership of the Republican Party has taken many actions to diminish the influence of the so-called tea party. Each action intended to take power away from the grassroots in order to silence the input of the citizens who gave them power in the first place.
Since the vote on Tuesday, establishment voices have praised the tactics of the Cochran campaign, citing the cross-over vote as the epitome of the democratic process they profess to promote as they describe themselves as “Conservative Republicans.” In doing so, they have opened a wound within the ranks of patriotic Americans, that forces all of us to examine what it means to be a Republican.
The poisonous race-baiting used by the Cochran campaign, using newspapers, robocalls and flyers to tell black communities that “tea party candidate” Chris McDaniel will take away their food stamps, and promoting the vicious lie that the tea party is racist impels me to clarify just who we are talking about when we identify ourselves in this Republican Party un-civil war.
originally posted by: seasoul
The issue I have with our federal government, is why this plutocratic oligarchy somehow feels justified in imposing its authoritarian will on people?
Our government is obsessed with gutting the free will of its people.
originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: whyamIhere
It makes me wonder how many people actually are or the Tea Party or agree with the ideals that they espouse.
I honestly think that there is a sleeping giant.
originally posted by: beezzer
originally posted by: seasoul
The issue I have with our federal government, is why this plutocratic oligarchy somehow feels justified in imposing its authoritarian will on people?
Our government is obsessed with gutting the free will of its people.
Aren't ALL government like that to one degree or another?
Government is a necessary evil, in my humble opinion.
Government should be something we tolerate, not something that is idolized.