Tea Party Drunks Ranting Incoherently About The Obvious
I can’t figure out what the Tea Party movement stands for because at their demonstrations their outbursts sound a lot like the ratings of a chronic drunk staggering across a subway platform. It turns out their core values are spelled out on one of their websites.
http://www.teapartypatriots.org/Mission.aspx
There are three core values they that underlie their movement:
Fiscal Responsibility: Fiscal Responsibility by government honors and respects the freedom of the individual to spend the money that is the fruit of their own labor….
Apparently they don’t want to pay taxes. Me either, but it costs money to be an industrial superpower and a democracy with courts, judges, a military, police, roadways etc. The Tea Party people have responsibilities too; like paying their fair share to keep America strong.
Constitutionally Limited Government: We, the members of The Tea Party Patriots, are inspired by our founding documents and regard the Constitution of the United States to be the supreme law of the land.
This doesn’t need to be part of their core values. They are stuck with it whether they like it or not.
Free Markets: A free market is the economic consequence of personal liberty. The founders believed that personal and economic freedom were indivisible, as do we. Our current government’s interference distorts the free market and inhibits the pursuit of individual and economic liberty. Therefore, we support a return to the free market principles on which this nation was founded and oppose government intervention into the operations of private business.
What the Tea Party doesn’t understand is that government promotes business as well as regulates it. Washington has given business grants, subsidies and tax breaks in an effort to assist in its climb toward prosperity. It has even used the military to protect business interests overseas. The government has been guilty of looking the other way when business has destroyed public lands and waterways.
This republic could not stand without a regulated free market. If you think corruption is rampant in Washington now imagine what it would be if business was unregulated. Business would have overwhelmed government a long time ago, if it hasn’t already, and your liberty been sold to the highest bidding lobbyist.
So I’m back to ground zero with the Tea Party. Their core values are based on illusions. There is nothing new or special about them. In fact they are pretty much what everybody in the country stands for. These core values go without saying, they don’t need to be written down.
So what’s left? Incoherent ranting and core values that state the obvious are not the basis for a grass roots movement. And this is why people accuse them of being a band of racists. The real reasons for their existence and anger have to remain unspoken.
Tea Party! Stop complaining and write up an agenda with specific programs you want your candidates to impose. Once you do that we can start to take you seriously.
