At the crossroad
It appears that survival of either political party establishment has become more important than constitutional authority or individual liberty. Can good come from replacing one for the other if the chosen won't stand up for Founding Principles?
Many of us have been paying attention over the years. Many Americans have watched as one party or another promised to reduce X only to increase it, or promised Y but instituted Z - insert your own list of failed or ignored political promises.
For at least the last half-century, Democrat governments have increased spending, taxation, growth of government, and incremental losses of individual freedoms. Yet, except for eye-blinks in time as perceived on the conservative end of the spectrum, this has also been what the American electorate has been treated to by Republican governance. Even so, many Americans, in one way or another, have been active in attempting to re-infuse the nation's Founding Principles into its civil and political processes.
Ah, but then there are the eye-blinks. Don't forget those pesky eye-blinks that occurred in the 1980s and mid-1990s. Amidst those years, there was the occasional spurt when the federal government actually reduced spending, lowered tax rates, and reduced the dependency on social welfare. Americans were given the merest taste of what it could be like if government was muzzled and the American free enterprise system was unleashed. It was intoxicating, the economy boomed, and America was strengthened.
Which is why it is now so painful that America is at a crossroad, a place in our history that few thought any living American would ever face, much less imagine. No one with whom I am familiar ever thought that our nation as founded under the constitutional rule of law would be threatened as it is now - and in just 20 months. There has been a socialist shift not even experienced under the lordship of FDR, an anti-American schism that has fostered an undeniable and extremely powerful political backlash.
Critique of the system
For some time now, state-run and free media pundits, political party rulers, and mercenary strategists have been attempting to categorize the tens of millions of American who have embraced the Tea Party movement. These paid lecturers have routinely categorized Tea Party Americans as being angry, insignificant, bitter, ignorant, racists, Nazis, or [insert derogatory epithet here]. They completely miss the mark, except for the first description listed. This vast assemblage of the American majority is angry. They are fed up with a ruling class system that perpetuates government growth, free market strangulation, confiscatory taxation, and the erosion of individual liberty.
They transcend party affiliation and are a national majority force which represents a dramatic shift to the right. This force derives its power from the bottom up and is aimed toward curtailing or decimating the burgeoning size, power, and authority of the federal government. The Tea Party represents the rank and file electorate - and all party affiliations - and will no longer tolerate elite-induced lectures, insults, or lies. Above all, they are demanding total honesty, then total accountability from those they elect. This is what the mildly conservative Peggy Noonan recently had to say:
"Here is a great virtue of the tea party: They know what time it is. It's getting late. If we don't get the size and cost of government in line now, we won't be able to. We're teetering on the brink of some vast,"This new American Majority does not need to seek validation from people who are never going to acknowledge them in the first place." dark new world - states and cities on the brink of bankruptcy, the federal government too. The issue isn't 'big spending' anymore. It's ruinous spending that they fear will end America as we know it, as they promised it to their children."
To stem the terrible harm being inflicted upon the nation by the current sociofascist regime, Tea Party Americans could live with Republican governance if the GOP had the courage to re-embrace the Founding Principles. Although the Tea Party is supporting many Republican candidates, it does not serve as a political wing of the GOP but as its critique. This will be evidenced should Republicans gain control of the federal government and revert to the bad old ruling class ways. They will be gone. This new American Majority does not need to seek validation from people who are never going to acknowledge them in the first place.
In the end, voters decide
It is important to remember that nobody in America except the electorate has the moral or lawful authority to decide who is electable and who is not. No political party big shot or ruling class elite should be allowed to predetermine an election, at any level of government. Here's what an animated Robert Laurie had to say:
"Unfortunately, many GOP power players aren't there for the issues. Party strength is far more important to them than, say, personal liberty. They simply cannot understand the fact that there are many who feel a Republican-controlled Congress is worthless if it's not going to stand for anything. People like Rove have been very slow to realize that the most significant change in the country isn't a shift to the right as a reactionary move away from Obama."We have reached a point where nothing the government is doing is funded. We are effectively broke and broken." It's a shift to the right geared toward scaling back the ever-increasing scope of the federal government. If GOP members are going to arrive in Washington only to play nice and enact a tax-and-spend agenda of bailouts and big government, the rank-and-file members aren't going to put them in power."
We have reached a point where nothing the government is doing is funded. We are effectively broke and broken, trillions in debt with a deficit that is unfathomable. Out-of-control spending, borrowing, and taxing have forced a bleak future upon us, our children, and grandchildren. Yet this is only one of so many reasons why there has been an uprising of ordinary Americans who know our nation is on an unsustainable path.
In the end, it will be the voters, led by the American Majority, who will determine our immediate future - not the party big whigs, not state-run media, not the pundits, not the insiders. Those whom the people elect would be wise to heed their wishes.
Hype and Chains for 36 more days.