@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
Well, get specific. What actions are you taking that we need to be aware of? The teapartiers are taking action, too. But, a leming is as enlightened as the ones I have listened to.
What actions... My actions are inactions, and that is what I urge... Resistence is an art form... Make them deal with you because the only thing keeping the old form alive is the faith that it will be there forever and the fear that it will never die... I offer this advice: Think for yourself, act on your own, do nothing if not certain of good resulting, form new relationships, and talk about what a new constitution would look like, if you were writing it...
The tea party is just a branch of the republicans who take advantage of the anger, but also of the fact that in safe districts they can drive republicans out of office, or so far to the right that even the right will not elect them... Obama tries to govern from the center when there is no center; but republicans and democrats both try to find common ground even when there is none to give the appearance that something positive is getting done... When the republicans can consistently turn every member they have in the house for unanimous votes on even harmless issues, they are organized as democrats will never be...They are like so many spoiled children who will not play if they do not get their way... The message they send is that change will only happen over their dead bodies, but the tea party is even pushing this feeling to the right...They are so idealistic and they believe so much in their hearts that they are right that they want war, and control of the government as a prelude to war... Let them have it, and they will find they are fighting over a corpse, and if they cannot get that corpse to do something good for their districts, that they will be turned out of office...
Disenthrall yourself... Forget this form as a way of achieving good... Remember that there are as many hot heads on the left as on the right, as many people restricted in thought by their ideas... The tea party is like the ante bellum South, which believed its way of life was threatened and condemned as immoral, and they wanted to fight back... In fact, as much as the right of today, they were not threatened as much as threatening, and they had everything going their own way, and it was their success more than their failures that brought a reaction to life...
The tea baggers are teaching america that there is no center between right and left... And they are right, that they are over taxed, but their fight against taxation does a service for all those who keep their wealth unmolested while the poor are robbed to support the government... Everyone wants to be rich, and everyone identifies with the rich, but the rich need to be taxed and to the maximun if the middle class would survive... The tea baggers are blaiming the left for the problems caused by the right...If they had control of the government they would find that they have to support the monster some how, even by borrowing, or by taxation, and the poor have no money, and the rich evade taxation; so only they are left who cannot resist taxation...
