Glenn Beck had a mass rally in DC, but what people forget is that the Tea Party Patriots had ALREADY scheduled a big DC rally for 2 weeks before, Beck's rally killed the Tea Party rally, which had hundreds of cancellations when they found out about the Beck rally. Intentional or not, he helped take the wind out of the Te Party sails.
By mid 2012, so many of the Tea Party groups were defunct that I was told by leaders on national lists that I had that in Boise, for example, they had gone from 100 to 15; in Dayton, one chapter barely had enough to meet; and a list in IL had virtually no one still heading the groups that were there 2 years earlier.
In Dayton in 2010 we had 8000 (conservative estimate) at our first rally, but by 2013 no one could even organize a gathering half that size.
My sense is that so many of these people thought that by electing conservatives in 2010 they had done their job, and that congress would take care of it. Many gave up in frustration. More important, the Tea Party had trouble keeping the disaffected Dems and Libertarians because the mainstream supporters were also interested in the moral issues. While in theory the organizations were focused on economic issues, the rank and file were traditional social conservatives and they tended to dominate the groups.
I too was a Tea Party protester and attendee. However, after a year or so, I was probably one of first of the early wave to give up on the meetings, as it was clear it wasn’t working strongly or quickly enough. Our government has been lying to the American people on a scale not seen since the Nazis gripped Germany.
Amazing the darkness that has fallen on America in the last 6 years, I would never have dreamed it possible. After all, we Americans were different - we defeated the Soviet Union and won the Cold War. We fought communism in the Korean Conflict and Viet Nam. Now we are falling in the deadly grasp of Socialism with both eyes open?
Americans still had Harry Reid and the RINO hoard cramming things like allowing openly gays in the military, and Obama’s forced tax increases without protest from the RINOs. Idiot turncoats like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, the RINO sister-Senators from Maine, Scott Brown’s ugly liberal values, superRINO John Boehner and crew keep getting elected to the House of Representatives - all mis-represent conservative values to their own benefit.
Secession, or a return to Federalism - States Rights through 10th Amendment nullification is the only answer, as our voting system has been hijacked by illiterate low information voters who adore Obama and want free money that the Democrats offer. Democrats have succeeded in destroying America through attacking our morality and Christian values. The Black Caucus is made up of Communist Party members. They have a lock on single issue voters, welfare queens and single parent women, who can’t afford the children they bore. Senior citizens who feel threatened with lies about republicans taking their social security checks. The Fed printing money that will eventually lead to a crash and destroy our savings and America’s free market system.
Since the early days of the Tea Party, Ted Cruz has been a ray of light in the cesspool that is Congress. He was demonized for the government shutdown, which was protested by Republicans and Democrat alike. Democrats use lies and distortions - a tongue given them by Satan to push the final conflict.
While I still turn out to vote and talk politics with those who will listen, my philosophy is to hunkered down and try to prep from my children’t future and survival when the day finally comes that Americans look back amongst all the destruction and chaos that awaits, and wonder what happened...
Glenn Beck is a truly odd dude: says some good things, followed by really strange things and then hides when real opposition is needed.
Sarah Palin is a nice enough lady with a really grating voice that says some really insightful things mixed with some really weird things/surrounded by an occasionally weird family.
Michele Bachmann burned bright for a while and then faded when the Left started pulling their usual shenanigans.
Rush Limbaugh is a occasionally perceptive guy who is more an entertainer than any kind of leader. He more or less proved that for our generation when he bailed on Vietnam.
It goes on and on. It seems hard to believe, but out of a country with 330 million mostly legal residents, we can't find even one genuine leader who can summarize what's going wrong with this country and its culture and its security and still withstand the firestorm of opposition the Left can pull together.