Posted on 06/19/2014 1:01:58 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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"...Deep divisions notwithstanding, there are a number of principles that unite the movement. The most important of them is a devotion to subsidiarity, which holds that power should rest as close to ordinary people as possible. In practice, this leads Tea Party conservatives to favor voluntary cooperation among free individuals over local government, local government over state government, and state government over the federal government. Teatopia would in some respects look much like our own America, only the contrasts would be heightened. California and New York, with their dense populations and liberal electorates, would have even bigger state governments that provide universal pre-K, a public option for health insurance, and generous funding for mass transit........
More conservative states, meanwhile, would compete to go furthest and fastest in abandoning industrial-era government. Traditional urban school districts would become charter districts, in which district officials would provide limited oversight while autonomous networks of charter schools would make the decisions about how schools are run day-to-day. Parents would be given K–12 spending accounts, which could be spent on the services provided by local public schools and on a range of other educational services, from online tutoring to apprenticeships designed to provide young people with marketable skills.....
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.....I have mixed feelings about Teatopia. There are aspects of it that I find very attractive. Yet there are other aspects that, as an old-school sentimental American nationalist, give me pause. What I can say is that the Tea Party movement does indeed have a distinctive vision, which will come into sharper focus in the years to come. The Tea Party is not some temporary aberration......It is a real movement, and as America grows more diverse, and as American politics grows more contentious, it will grow.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Well, that's the only way it could happen. How many Libertarians are in Congress, the Administration and the Federal Court System?
that Libertarian Congress would need an uninterrupted number of years to start to undo the unconstitutional damage of the last century.
And implement their agenda of legalizing all drugs, continuing unfettered baby-killing, buggery and pederasty.
The article doesn’t mention “debt”, “deficit” or the problems with government creating nearly a trillion dollars a year and the problems awaiting us because of it. This core TEA party principle is ignored.
Can you imagine?........
If we ever had a change and the Tea Party took control,
I would LOVE to be part of the group who gets to administer “justice”. There would be a lot of hangings (no need for prisons since the penalty for treason allows hanging). I would create several jobs by build conveyor’s to the gallows to save time in eliminating the ba#tards as quickly a possible, “so much to do and so little time”.
Ah, but a dream!
” - - - They’re getting nervous. - - - “
Yup, just listen to the latest comments by at Rep. from NY Peter King!
I have to disagree. I would dutifully serve in such a role should the need arise and it was asked of me, but man I would not love that one bit.
I would feel constant misery having to go through which such justice and having to go through the nitty-gritty details of all such actions and be immensely saddened by the state of our nation and our affairs. I’d also be pitiful and ashamed of what the nation has become, and having that brought to full exposure for true justice.
No sir, that would not be a pleasant role or situation. One that must occur in some form certainly, but not one I would in any way love.
And they would pay for this by... anybody? Bueller?
My “Teatopia” would feature no involvement from Rand Paul, his daddy, or their personality cult. It would also use federal power to smack down liberal state and local governments to prevent them from violating the rights of Americans. New Yorkers will be able to drink out of whatever size cup they want.
Call it an Iced Teatopia.
IT WOULD BE HEAVEN ON EARTH IMHO!
>> The Tea Party is not some temporary aberration...
bttt
I been a drop out this month.
Never got a chance to go to Maine to help in the Poliquin victory ... not going to upstate NY for Elise. She looks like the winner.
no time at all. no read the news and only watched the clincher online Kings dominant over Rangers. Spurs were unreal.
Harper poll, Stefanik 45%, Doheny 37%.
I continue to be extremely worried because Doheny has the IP endorsement and Stefanik the CP endorsement. We cannot split the vote in November, the loser of the GOP primary must graciously bow out. Gotta keep it cool in the iced tea party.
Spurs, best post-Jordan dynasty in the NBA. Popovich #1, coach.
LA Kings, unstoppable this year, NYR were no match.
“Harper poll, Stefanik 45%, Doheny 37%. ..”
Sweet.
btw, Hannity said he will have a conservative politician, who is running against a liberal incumbent, on his radio show today from NYS, and I’m wondering if it will be Claudia Tenney. But whoever it is, it should be interesting.
"That it effectively is the destruction of the union is just icing on the religious-right cake."</off froth>
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