Posted on 08/22/2013 11:40:18 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
WAKE FOREST, NC, August 20, 2013 — Many Americans see the Tea Party as a bigoted movement of uneducated white men that caters to big business and the rich. That does not and never has accurately described the Tea Party movement.
The Tea Party is not an officially a political party, though there are Tea Parties affiliated with the movement. It has no central leadership.
People who identify with the movement do not come just from Republicans or identify only as conservatives. Independents, Democrats and liberals are all represented. It lacks any significant representation only from those who call themselves progressives, socialists or communists.
The “Tea” in Tea Party is often considered an acronym for “Taxed Enough Already.” Tea Partyers are opposed to ever-expanding government. The Tea Party also adamantly holds to the principles outlined in the founding documents of the United States: The U.S. Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence.
The Declaration of Independence sets out the principles on which our government was founded:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
The Constitution takes the Declaration’s principles and uses them to organize and limit the powers of government...
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bttt
Uneducated? lol
Big business, "the rich", and Washingtonians by and large despise us. Putting limits on government upsets their apple cart.
“The Tea Party is not an officially a political party, though there are Tea Parties affiliated with the movement. It has no central leadership.”
and how many more damn times do we have to repeat this?
How exactly did the white people become rich and powerful if they were uneducated?
Or are we just supposed to be lackeys for the big rich white men?
I wish they would tell me so I may adjust my lifestyle accordingly.
And why wouldn't any American, regardless of stripe, adamantly hold to the principles outlined in the founding documents of the United States: The U.S. Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence?
This statement shows how far we have fallen.
By oppressing/exploiting people of color of course!
Social issues are not unimportant, but the Tea Party is not a centrally organized party. It is a movement, so Tea Party activists would do well to concentrate on issues that a large segment of Americans agree on and work to broaden its base across party lines. It started as a reaction against unresponsive government and high taxes; that is where its emphasis should stay. The movement’s objectives should be pared down to a minimum, not expand to satisfy every group currently served by the GOP.
This is the focused message that worked wonders in the 2010 mid-term elections.
"Cut the spending; cut the size of government; cut the regulations; cut the taxes."
Automagically along with those cuts, lots of corruption and waste will disappear, investment capital will return to the USA, our economy will boom, unemployment will go down, etc., etc.
And why wouldn't any American, regardless of stripe, adamantly hold to the principles outlined in the founding documents of the United States: The U.S. Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence?
This statement shows how far we have fallen.
Not quite. We've fallen further merely than would be indicated by there being some, or even many Americans who don't adamantly hold to the principles outlined in the founding documents of the United States: The U.S. Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence. We now have a large number of Americans including those in control of most of the media, the Senate and the Executive Branch, plus a goodly part of the judiciary, who not only do not revere our founding documents, but regard Americans who do adamantly hold to the principles outlined in the founding documents of the United States as at best kooky and at worst dangerous radicals and potential terrorists.
TEA = Taxed Enough Already. How is that so hard for people to understand?
Oh, yeah. I forgot.
I see it primarily about taxes which in turn relate to the social issues which inevitably affect taxes.
I've got it made...I have a wife and 3 kids that constantly force "lifestyle adjustments".
I see it entirely about the Declaration, the Constitution and limited government. Simply abide by the constitution and all this federal overreaching and abuse of power goes away, including big government spending, big taxing, out of control debt, ObamaCare, abortion “rights,” homoasexual “rights,” gun-grabbing, open borders, global warming, the EPA abuses, the IRS abuses, etc, etc, the entire unconstitutional ball of wax.
Exactly, all things are part of the whole which is why the tea party is hard to define but easily understood by all true Americans.
bkmk
Apparently Tea Party means different things to different people...For me it’s pro Constitution, pro U.S.A., pro 50 States, not one state of America...
And of course you are right...Go Constitution and everything will fall into place...That’s the old version of the Constitution...
Cathy Areu (Washington Post Magazine) just told Scott Brown (who was hosting O’Reilly), “I wish the Tea Party would go away.” This was after they played the clip of Obama saying he had private conversations with some Republicans who told him they can’t agree with him in public because of the Tea Party.
So, Mr Obama and the MSM, when is the IRS going to stop trampling on the Tea Party?
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