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Tea Party rallies are history but the movement is far from it
February 22, 2012
There’s a lot of wishful thinking in Washington. Beltway Democrats wish for more of our money to spend. Beltway Republicans wish no one would notice they’ve done nothing about the deficit.
President Obama is wishing from the 18th green that the economy will magically improve enough to make him appear competent. And his progressive allies wish the Tea Party, which defeated well-heeled liberal forces in 2010, would just go away.
The Left thinks it’s getting its wish as Tea Party rallies fade into history. But that doesn’t mean that the Tea Party is dead. In fact, what progressives have hoped was the demise of the most effective grass-roots movement in recent history has actually been a needed evolution.
Large, decentralized, authentic grass-roots movements are so often nothing more than flashes in the pan. Not so with the Tea Party. It remains a potent political force but just not in the same way as in 2009 and 2010.
Even the Tea Party name has slowly begun to fade as citizen-activists and citizen-politicians who first engaged in the national political discourse three years ago now are building political infrastructure to effect long-term, systemic reform.
They’re ready to do something as much as say something. Being stuck in a 2009 mentality will not help build a counterforce to public employee unions and other well-funded progressive constituencies.
It is an uphill battle to be sure, but it was similar to the mountain progressives climbed against the corporatists 100 years ago. This time around, the fiscal conservatives and constitutionalists are beginning to drive hard against the statists.
THE SEVEN FUNDAMENTAL LIES OF AMERICAN UTOPIANISM
1. Accountability to a higher moral authority other than man is “not” crucial to the advancement of civilization.
2. The government can be ones benevolent benefactor for a “prolonged” period without becoming a: brutish, brainless, bloated, black mailing, bribing, boodoggling, bamboozling bureaucracy.
3. Compassion need “never” be tempered with common sense.
4. The government can mandate “absolute” equality.
5. The governed “must” submit to the will of the governing being the former are to stupid and incompetent to tend to their own affairs.
6. An individual that creates honest wealth by means of his own innate abilities and principles “must” accept the ransoming and plundering of said wealth by the government so that it will satiate the needs and demands of the collective masses.
7. The indoctrination of youth in political correctness is “preferable” to the instruction of said youth in Judeo-Christian ethics and traditional American exceptionalism.