Posted on 02/04/2014 7:10:01 AM PST by kristinn
It's the belief that government is the greediest, most corrupt and murderous force on Earth and must be held in check.
“The Tea Party is but one example of a common form of political insurgency—one that almost always loses in the long run”
California dreamin. :-)
What the liberals and GOPe never seemed to understand is that “Tea Party” was only an organization in their and some who tried to play Tea Party Leader minds.
It was a ground swell movement by fed up conservative minded citizens, who no more wanted someone with their own agenda to “claim” to be Tea Party leaders than we wanted nobama’s tyrannical liberal BS.
The real Tea Party movement has not gone away, it has grown where it counts.
What was the LSM calling the founding fathers around 1776? Were they pronouncing them dead, year after year?
Or was it more ‘first they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win’?
“Raymond A. Smith is senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute and adjunct assistant professor of political science at Columbia University and New York University.”
I think one approach might be a rebranding - from the “Tea Party” to the “T’d Off Party”.
This new party would clearly define itself around limited government, reduced spending, a balanced budget, drastically less government regulation, an end to almost all government surveillance of Americans and generally increased freedom. It would be blind to social issues, and welcome all who embrace the above platform.
There would be no problem with belonging to both, of course! However, I think a solid majority of Americans would get on board with the T’d Off Party platform.
The country has problems both with the economy and world involvement. A party has to deal with these problems. A party that is just anti-government has limited usefulness. Its future is to dissolve back into the GOP. Another one-act pony like the Prohibition Party.
TEA is merely the policy statement . . .
Bingo. To paraphrase "V is for Vendetta", "ideas are bulletproof".
And, who likes to be anti-establishment? Hmmm...
Our young people are listening, and learning, and know they're gonna be paying more and more for this establishment's doings.
Tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic...
Yep. Truly grassroot, heart of America, reasoned, seasoned, serious to the bone, and diffuse yet common. Uniparty is fearful, and for good reason.
You cannot stifle Free thinking and Freedom.
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” - Ghandi
Cognitive dissonance. If running establishment RINOs is a solution, why did all those “safe candidates” lose (which cost us the Senate) ?
It is called disinformation. Disinformation is an act of desperation.
Debbi
Actually, we’re modeled after the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. When one place setting gets used up, you just move over one seat to a clean one.
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