Can the Tea Party Deliver?
“There are only two men in America who can fill Yankee Stadium on three weeks’ notice,” a friend instructed me years ago.
“Billy Graham and Louis Farrakhan.”
Indeed, a decade ago, Black Muslim Minister Farrakhan’s “Million Man March” brought a throng of hundreds of thousands to the Capitol.
But, last Saturday, Glenn Beck packed the Mall with a crowd that could have filled Yankee Stadium to overflowing five times over. As it stretched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington
Monument, the estimates of its size ran to half a million.
This was twice the size of the crowd that heard Martin Luther King Jr. 47 years ago and matched the antiwar demonstrations of 1969.
Wisely, Beck dropped partisanship to convert his gathering into a God, country and Constitution rally, with speakers honoring the courage and sacrifice of America’s military. Said Sarah Palin, a rally star, “Say what you want to say about me, but I raised a combat vet, and you can’t take that away from me.”
Al Sharpton, who organized a counter-rally that turned out a few hundred folks at Dunbar High, was his usual gracious self. Speaking of the half a million Americans on the Mall, the Rev. Al volunteered, “They want to disgrace this day.”
President Obama, seeing that crowd on the Mall as large as the one that came to celebrate his inaugural, must understand what it portends. His moment may have passed.
For that enthusiastic and energetic assembly is the spear point of an army of millions headed for the polls to throw out the party he leads.
Nevertheless, as Obama raised hopes only to be perceived as having fallen short, so, too, Beck’s believers and the tea party folks are raising hopes and expectations.
But can they succeed?
“We must not fundamentally transform America, as some would want,” said Palin, in one of the direct challenges to Obama. “We must restore America.”
But can we restore America, or is the old America gone forever?
Consider the issue that unites all on the Mall on Saturday — the need for the U.S. government to cut spending, to balance its budget and not to shove an immense burden of debt on our children.
Like last year, we are running a deficit of $1.4 trillion, almost 10 percent of the entire economy. With housing starts and housing sales plunging, jobless claims rising, the stock market sinking, and economic growth slowing to a crawl, we will face a new deficit equally large in the fiscal year beginning in October.
Where are the victorious tea party Republicans going to cut?
According to USA Today, 50 million Americans are on Medicaid, and perhaps an equal number on Medicare and Social Security. Which of these three will tea party Republicans cut, when Republicans are already denying Democratic charges that they plan to raise the retirement age for Social Security?
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has a 600-page plan to reform Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the tax code, the work of a conscientious conservative. But only one in 16 House Republicans has signed on as co-sponsor.
Are Republicans going to go after other entitlements — veterans benefits, earned income tax credits, food stamps — which now go to 41 million Americans, or unemployment benefits that run for 99 weeks?
With the racial achievement gap on test scores returning, will the GOP abolish No Child Left Behind or slash federal aid to education?
The big remaining items in the budget are interest on the debt, which must be paid, and war and defense. But Republicans are more likely to be supportive of Obama’s rebuilding a military ravaged by war, and staying the course in Iraq and Afghanistan, than are Democrats.
Obama’s budget commission will surely come in with tax increases on personal incomes, perhaps also for Social Security and Medicare. But the GOP cannot sign on to these and go home again.
Indeed, how can Republicans cooperate with a president who has spent the campaign blaming them for the Great Recession and telling voters the GOP intends to drag us back to the dark past of Bush II?
And why would a “Party of No” that picks up 40 or 50 House seats by its Alamo defiance become a Kumbaya, “Yes-we-can!” party and work in happy harness with Barack Obama?
Can we really “restore America” as she once was?
According to The New York Times, Orange County, Calif. — birthplace of Richard Nixon, Goldwater Country, bastion of the John Birch Society, land of the “little old ladies in tennis shoes” — is today a place where less than half the population is Anglo and almost half speak a language other than English in the home.
Where Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter three to one in Orange County, Obama ran a near dead heat with McCain. And as Orange County goes, so goes California and so goes America.
Republicans and tea partiers are going to have a glorious fall.
But is this one of the last hurrahs?
Patrick Buchanan is the author, most recently, of Churchill, Hitler, and ‘The Unnecessary War,’ now available in paperback. COPYRIGHT 2010 Creators.com.
Thats why we are in gridlock. Both sides are in their trenches shooting at each other. We need a new third party with the simple goal of storing the American economy. Forger gay marrage, abortion, flag burning. Push for policies that increase jobs, purchasing of American goods and reduction of the national debt.
In the end everybody needs to suffer equally: cut entitlements, military, welfare, space exploration, infrastructure all by 10-15%. Do that first before raising taxes to proove that you can.
The Tea Party has been co-opted by the Republican establishment, no nothing much is going to be done.
The US Empire is crumbling, whatever rebuilding is to come it will come from the ashes of the America we know we are losing fast.
The ruling class knows all this and have their jets warmed up and ready to depart, they have raped and pillaged the US to death and are ready to move on with the ill gotten goods from the “bailouts” etc. to new opportunities..
The rest of us are stuck with the pain and suffering.May they rot in hell.
I have no idea what these people stand for. I’m looking for our people to focus inward and rebuild. In other words:
1. Non-interventionism
2. End the mass immigration disaster
3. Guard our damn borders
4. One language
5. Rebuild
Seems to me Palin and Beck just want to fight more wars for Israel and murder more Muslims.
If there is one thing that non-interventionists can do for the Tea Pary movement and ultimately the fate of America and our freedoms & liberties, it’s to talk, communicate, take action anyway we can to steer America away from endless wars.
War is the health of the state (authoritarian) and the ruin of a democratic republic.
As Pat points out it won’t be easy.
But stopping endless wars is the first step.
Point out to people, if you really love freedom…war is not the answer.
Of course the Tea Party won’t deliver. The glorification of our military state is central to the Republicans and most of the Tea Party (the increasingly marginalized Ron Paul supporters will lose out of course). So we’ll have more war with a few face-saving budget cuts that don’t drastically hurt interest groups, the debt will spiral out of control, but the Republicans might stay in power by flogging the “Muslim issue” for a bit longer. Then we can start the cycle all over again.
We might as well just surrender to the Chinese. They won’t throw our resources away on foreign adventures. Hell, they’d probably be more hands-off than the feds.
Beck and Palin are correct: it ultimately is character. It is the question St. Augustine raised in De Civitas Dei: How does a righteous man live in an unrighteous world. It is a return to roots. I cam of age during the 1960s with its of-it-feels-good-do-it attitude. The leadership my generation has provided has failed. Beck and Palin represent a new generation that is trying to pick up the torch of John Kennedy that my generation dropped. As you indicate, only time will tell.
End the “umbrella” that the US is attempting to hold over the world, financially and militarily.
Streamline the healthcare industry, force environmental protection to rid itself of influence peddling and corruption.
Outlaw corruption and group-bullying by unions. Make participation an INDIVIDUAL decision in ALL CASES.
Put the common citizen in charge of feeling his/her own pain. Institute the “fair tax”. Look it up.
Make it a prison-offense to use political office to personally enrich ones self, or ones family, or ones political allies. And ENFORCE such laws.
Secure our borders. Intelligently identify who is here and who comes into our country. ENFORCE the EXISTING laws.
These will solve the country’s financial messes.
The comparison to Farrakhan is instructive. I remember watching the Million Man March with my sister when I was ten years old, and not knowing a thing about what Farrakhan actually stood for, I remember being dumbstruck by his strange religious rantings. In a very similar way, this may represent the high-water mark in both influence and weirdness for Beck, and therefore really the beginning of the end.
@Jack: Good point. The same year as the Million Man March was the “Promise Keepers” event. Never heard about Promise Keepers again.
Which reminds me: I remember an anecdote that outside of the Baltimore Orioles stadium that day a guy was selling t-shirts that said,”My wife thinks I’m at Promise Keepers.”
THAT’S what I love about this country!
Among the many of us who consider ourselves sympathetic to, if not wholeheartedly supportive of the Tea Party, there are divisions that cripple our overall message. Further, many positions attributed to the TP deflect others from supporting our common goals. May I suggest one theme that will bring us all togethr, and attract sufficient others that we may become a true majority. That is we must take a common stand against the corruption that infests both major parties. I believe that corruption is best countered by two steps: 1), to keep the rascals out, let us have meaningful campaign finance reform, which I suggest rules out contributions by any group and reserves that right to individuals, certifying that their contributions are theirs alone, in no way paid for by any group, and: 2) term limits to make the rascals less valuable, or as I would put it, who wants to buy a lame duck. Both measures would require a Constitutional ammendment, so lets get going and start the ball rolling on its introduction.
First I’ll admit I didn’t follow closely the Beck/Palin show in Washington. But from what I’ve read after the fact, it was pretty much what was expected: a mosh pit of feel good sentimentality lacking anything of substance. (Perhaps someone who views the event as meaningful can tell us exactly what it’s purpose was.) Beck’s numerous vague reference’s to God is a case in point. Beck is a Mormon, and Mormons hold to a concept of god that’s diametrically opposed to Christian orthodoxy. So when beck refers to God, which one is it? The point is not which concept is valid, but whether Beck is pandering politically to the masses at the rally. Is there any doubt an overwhelming majority of these folk were in some sense ’orthodox’ Christians? So if Beck, in using the term ‘God,’ is referring to the Mormon concept, hoping the masses will assume he’s speaking of their deity, he’s guilty of deceit—one of the very things he rails against. On the other hand, if he’s invoking the Biblical God of orthodoxy, he betrays his own religious tradition, and is thus not trustworthy. Does the issue matter? “Yes,“ I say, realizing reasonable folk may disagree. But keep in mind the point: Beck is either a deceitful, hypocritical charlatan, or untrustworthy…or maybe even all of the above. The tea party bunch would be well advised to consider whether they are being led down the yellow brick road by the likes of Palin and Beck. The two are taking any who follow to the land of same-old, same-old.
The two are taking any who follow to the land of same-old, same-old.
Well said, Robert Kremer.
Johnny probably says it best as far as what the tea party and conservatives really want.
stop proxy wars for israel and israeli spying
1) they dont want to cut social security, medicare, medicaid, food stamps, welfare…but refocus it back to its original core before its growth.
2) close the border, end all immigration (legal, illegal, n1/h1b), repatriate all immigrants in prison and on social programs by removing their citizenship / naturalization.
3) stop the tax breaks for offshoring and outsourcing, infact, use value added taxes to tax imports since we cant impose import duties.
4) tax high risk non-productive hedges, derivatives, credit default swaps and eliminate productive savings, dividends and capital gains.
5) privatize the public school systems and eliminate them as civil servants though national school choice and school vouchers. If the democrats want to go after republican donors like oil companies then republicans should go after democratic donors like civil servant unions.
6) consolidate the federal reserve into the treasury where it will actually be part of the federal government and subject to oversight
7) end the non-congressionally approved czars to bypass the constitutional legal system of cabinet appointments
The tea party, the republicans and the conservatives do have a mandate and it is not the anti-liberal or the anti-democrat but the mandate is very much unapologically nationalistic, pro-christian, pro-god, pro-merit based instead of quota based, anti-elitist entrenched interests…just as it was not pro-bush or anti-obama…this whole movement wants a small government that is concerned less about global issues and more about local issues…something that neither bush nor obama really get because both are firmly entrenched in big government buyoffs to fix grass roots problems…and continue their global focus.
thomas “end the non-congressionally approved czars to bypass the constitutional legal system of cabinet appointments
stop proxy wars for israel and israeli spying”
I have seen no evidence the tea party wants this. I wish they did.
yes…if you can only see the tea party as having an anti-liberal, anti-democratic, anti-social safety net agenda then they do stand for nothing….but that says more about the focus of the accuser than it does about the intent of the tea party!
Um Pat, 80,000 may be a sell out at Yankee Stadium (which holds less than 60k). BUT, the aerial shots clearly show Becks rally had LESS than Obama’s inauguration, AND for that matter the Indy500.
I would call it a flop! And I suspect a large portion of that crowd came from places like Lynchburg, VA. Who are outside of the mainstream in most of America. But they happen to be just a 3 hour ride from DC by Bus.
I just finished re-reading Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “New Nationalism” speech from 1910. Try the Google. It is worth the read.
Summary: Balancing the interests of capital (“property”) and labor is the kind of social justice that democracy demands and is the primary task of the state (who else will do it? Glenn Beck? Sarah Palin?). In case of close calls, labor is preferred because without it, capital is worthless. Further, allowing corporations unfettered influence in the political process or even providing them suffrage is antithetical to democracy. Progressive taxation of income and inheritance is necessary to fend off accumulations of wealth in the hands of the privileged and the powerful (like we have today) so that democracy can survive.
This is also the essense of Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell address when, in 1961, he warned of the dangers to democracy posed by the nascent military-industrial (congressional) complex. He feared that wealth, and its influence, would accumulate in the few hands of the American “warmacht,” that in his day comprised a mere sampling of robber barons in his day. Today, they are fewer and richer and even more influential.
But, what happened to those kinds of Republicans?
Today’s robber barons – the Koch brothers, Rupert Murdoch, and a few others – have taken hostage the Republican party, the Tea Party, AEI, think tanks and so-called “conservative” mixed media. Their influence undercuts the democratic process but it tends to move government out of the way which is, after all, the point. George Bush gave them, whom he called ‘the haves and the have mores,’ a final, parting gift in John Roberts and Samuel Alito who delivered the Citizens United decision. And the rest will be history repeated.
“a mosh pit of feel good sentimentality lacking anything of substance.”
Members of the “Tea Party” need to explain what accounts for the vast dissonance between their views on the role of the state in the economic, social and national security realms. Or, at least admit that this quasi-movement is so widely varied in political principle, it defies definition. All I see and hear is sloganeering, hyperbole, platitudes, and corny branding that portrays little except generalized anti-establishment anger and romantic nostalgia for some mythological, idealized past.
The fact that this rally of self-proclaimed supporters of a vastly more limited government had military idolatry(!) as a central theme was very disturbing.
@Chick Dante. Thank you for enlightening us. Nobody in libertarian and conservative circles has ever discussed the evolution of the corporation and its legal privileges before. Everyone is shocked, SHOCKED! by your information.
“the estimates of its size ran to half a million”
“THE” estimates are Beck’s own estimates — ones he made without any reference to a news organization. OTOH, CBS flew over the National Mall taking pictures and estimated a crowd of 87,000. That’s still very, very good for a right-wing parade on the mall, but Beck can’t resist telling you a “noble lie.” If Beck is to be believed, the National Mall had one person for every 16-inch square of real estate. Even soldiers lined up chest-to-back in the chow line can’t achieve that kind of density.
This is par for the course with Beck. He lies constantly, willfully, and about absolutely everything. His lies are so thoroughly intertwined that you need an hour to untangle all the untruths he spouts in just a few minutes. Here’s an example: the time he tried to make a Kansas City Junior High step dance troupe into “proof” of Teh Seekrit Obama Goon Army:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oJCbWACV54
How many “Bring All The Troops Home From Afghanistan and Iraq” placards.etc. were hoisted? Preferably at Beck’s urging.
Well, it was supposed to be an “honor the troops” rally, wasn’t it? Snark.
The Big Media is pushing Cincinnati talk host Bill Cunningham as the next national Big Thing. Already with a TV show to fill Ophra”s departure. He lies at will too. Supported the Iraq War, lying about its status from 2003 on.Calling for carpet bombing Iraq back to the Stone Age if it was necessary to save one US troop life. Pro-Israel to the hilt. Currently attacking Obama for being soft on Islam if not a secret Muslim on his Sun. nite nat’l radio show. And for “cold shouldering” Israel.
While Obama goes on droning thousands of Muslim innocents and alone of all non-Israeli national leaders, refusing to condemn Israeli barbarism in Gaza and on the high seas. But we were talking about lying. Bill has told his new national audience he always opposed the Iraq War. No lie too big. He might go far.
I recently read 60% of either the tea party crowd or the Beck
acolytes poll as still liking Bush and Cheney.
This crowd is going nowhere.
The gods must be laughing!
Consider, for example, the vast number of Americans who are sold on multi trillion-dollar nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan while their very own country comes down in ruins all around their ears.
That profound self-destructiveness will not soon come to an end.
Doubtful the tea party with republicans will deliver but may have a chance Need to get fiscal house in order. Some possible ways may be an 11% cut in all gov’t spending over 3 years including entitlements plus legalizing and taxing some drugs and sports gambling to raise revenues.May need a value added tax and luxury tax on those making over 1 million a year.Foreign aid and military spending needs evauating with goal to make cuts. Not likely to deport millions of make illegals so make them pay over time to stay and become citizens and try and secure borders for future by investing in Mexica so no need for them to come north
Restoring NEOconservative Honor 2010 baby! More unnecessary wars, more tax cuts ONLY for the rich. Where was the Tea Party when President Bush signed the prescription drug benefit? Where prescription companies can name there price to Medicare. Pat, Glenn would targeted you as an evil progressive with your stances on tariffs and protecting American workers. Why are you kidding yourselve to believe they care what you think? They don’t care about your American in the Mon Valley or honest hard working people. They just wanted to serve as propaganda pieces for the elite. More wars, more darwinism throwing Americans into direct competition with slave labor.
Firstly it was about 75k people. Secondly there are no policy proposals. Appeals to honor the troops mean nothing. There has been very poor support for troubled soldiers after their return and the stop loss program was anything but supportive.Frankly I’m not interested in how christian O is. It’s his own damn business and he goes to church a whole lot more than I ever have.
You’re exactly right pat on just what would they cut. old white ppl are great entitlement users. so will medicare/medicaid/social security really get cut? If it’s not them it only leaves the military in big ticket items. astly migration plays a role in the Us economy. Are Us citizens really going to work in the Arizona fields at 100 degrees?
So much unreality and wilful pretense in current dialogue. You’re right to call for answers Pat.
Re: TR and Ike :
Theodore Roosevelt, after much ado, and expense incurred in hiring a hunting guide, finally managed to find and kill one of the few remaining bison in the country. A bovine creature of a size surely dfficult to miss. He mounted the skull in his home in NY. Bully!
In addition to his historic and prescient warnngs of growth of the M-I complex Eisenhower, possibly to his regret, and after allowing himself persuaded by Dulles Inc, and culminating a years-long effort in pleading and cajoling by England and the Anglo Iranian Oil company, (BP), finally gave approval to what became the start of the Great Mischief, Operation Ajax:
Overthrow of the democratically elected PM of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh.
The plot was engineered and carried off by Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of Theodore.
After advising the Shah it was safe to return from Rome, where he had fled, the US cornered a huge portion of the Iranian oil output for a generation.
Also the enmity of Iranians.
In those days if you were a Roosevelt , you had to measure up.
(Kermit senior evidently believed he hadn’t. Suicide.)
So a Roosevelt ensured lasting hostility from Iran.
Someone tell us again why the antagonism from Islam;
1) US Prosperity
2) Liberty (Ha!)
3) We treat the wimmen too nice
Right
The Tea Party is just focused on getting rid of the existing Congress.
If the new Congress votes for more war or more bailouts, or if it fails to deport the illegals, we can get rid of it too.
And so on.
I do not understand any of the excitement I find on the real right about this Beck/Palin Republican Party rally. This “revolt” will lead, at best, to a Republican resurgence, which will lead to nothing good. In fact, a Republican resurgence will hurt the cause of the right rather than help, as the real right cannot recapture the GOP while it is in power, so it is counterproductive to fight to empower the GOP until after it is recaptured.
Nothing will change sort of a major social crisis in the US.
The Tea Oarty started out good i.e Ron Paul Libertarian/Constitutional but was quickly co-opted by Republican/Fascist establishment to corral them all back into the ranks.
It is all quite sickening as the idiocracy swings back and forth from Democrats/Marxist faction of the ruling elite and the Republican/ Fascist faction of the same elite, none realizing they are being played for fools and ineed they are.
They haven’t a clue that Liberty and the Constitution have been done away with years ago and America is living a big lie. They are living in a world similar to the one portrayed in the Matrix, only a few suspect something isn’t right in America, a even fewer make the effort to face the truth.
Hugh Mc Guinness
Call me a romantic but I like to believe there is as much difference between Teddy Roosevelt and those who came after him as there is between,say, Robert Taft the original
and the woeful Bob Taft, ex governor of Ohio.
lester, a large segment of the tea party are constitutionalists who do not want the government changing the 3 branches of government. tea party constructionalists like Ron Paul would demand the czars be removed and end foreign wars without congressional approval.
ian,
I didn’t know Arizona had many agricultural fields. In any event, you’ve erected a straw man to support continued mass immigration when you talk about Americans “working in Arizonan fields in 100 degree heat.”
Many of us who want to end mass immigration would probably be fine with regulated guest worker programs to supply labor for much agriculture. (Although I will say that you’ll find a lot more Americans willing–and ABLE–to do such work if wages weren’t at the minimum or lower.) We do not, however, see the need for foreign laborers to work in our banks (yes, that’s right, as big finance “bankers”), drive taxi cabs, compete in construction (cheap foreign labor contributed to the housing bubble), and wait tables, And we probably don’t need so many agricultural workers further north.
The immigration problem goes far beyond the agricultural fields of California and the South. There are 15 million illegal immigrants in the United States, many of them in our cities. Ten percent of babies born in our country are the offspring of illegal aliens. The government is issuing even more work visas to foreign laborers at a rate of 1 million per year. You know the Times Square bomber? He was a low- to mid-level office worker in one of the wealthiest parts of the country – are you telling me there aren’t thousands of Americans who would line up and be perfectly capable of his employment?
In case you hadn’t noticed, we are in a recession and millions of Americans cannot find work that pays a living wage.
The Tea Party, designed by Freedom Works and funded by the Koch brothers, represents what TR called “property” or capital. It is a strategy designed to stoke the fears of middle class whites and gin up their votes (against their own self interest) for those who represent and serve only the interests of capital to the detriment of labor. The idea is to increase excessive wealth accumulation through corporate welfare, subsidies, deregulation and labor arbitrage (offshoring) for Koch industries and others like them. Strategies include buying political influence and preventing transparency.
Teddy Roosevelt was warning us about the Tea Party in nearly every line of that great speech. He was warning us that preferring capital over labor would bring economic ruin. For the last 30 years or more, we have ignored this message even going so far as to believe the myth that “government is the problem.” Now, as a result, we find ourselves in economic distress caused by removing the impediments of government to avarice, greed, and propaganda. The failure to reject the warnings of The New Nationalism speech allowed the ponzi of high finance to supplant actual wealth creation by the prudent application of labor to capital, such as in domestic manufacture. The results of this ignorance are found in the misery that now is all around us which only further heightens fear especially among those who, like members of the Tea Party, are willing to belive anyone, like Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin, who gives voice to their fears and pretends to have answers.
It is a cynical ploy, one that has many historical roots, and, being a good student of history, Pat Buchanan correctly points out that once again it seems to be working just as planned.
“Indeed, how can Republicans cooperate with a president who has spent the campaign blaming them for the Great Recession and telling voters the GOP intends to drag us back to the dark past of Bush II?”
He properly blames them for the recession, because they are responsible for it. He properly accuses them of wanting to drag us back to the times of Bush II, because that’s what they want to do. They have no policy recommendations other than “tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts.” They are so goddamned illiterate when it comes to economics that they actually believe that “tax cuts pay for themselves”- in spite of the massive evidence to the contrary (not to mention common sense).
By the way, Pat, most objective estimates of the crowd size place it at just under 90,000 – exponentially short of half a million.
Police always greatly underestimate crowds at protests.
It wasn’t the Bush tax cuts that caused the depression
but the government interventionist policies of easy credit
AND no credit checks on unqualified blacks and latinos
because of evil anti-discrimination policies going back to Clinton.
Bluecrab, YOU are the economic illiterate. Bush was a statist
as is Obama.
We don’t want tax cuts to pay for more government waste, we
want much less money going to government.
Alright, first off the Beck rally estimate. The best analysis I have found for the size of the crowd was at one of the conspiracy sites on the net. The author used pictures from previous rallies, the National Park map, and photos of the event. He also stated he sent an email to the CBS source for the low ball estimate of 87,000. I find that estimate to be the most glaring lie I have ever seen in the Main Stream Media. Rallies quoted to be at 100,000 for Obama campaign stops, were easily 1/10 to 1/20 the size of the Beck rally. For those stating there was less than 500,000 are being intellectually dishonest or outright lying for an agenda.
As for the positions of the TEA partiers, I would say many of their stances are exactly the same as the libertarians and the followers of Ron Paul.
Limited Constitutional government, non international inverventionalism, but a STRONG national defense here in the US, not the a globalist agenda.
As for specifics, they are transitory in my opinion. A lot of it is they just want government out of their lives, their labor and their Constitutional right to property.
As an example alone, the war on drugs. One guy has came up with a Constitutional argument recently, that could break the federal government’s out of control legislation of state rights in many things.
The prohibition of alcohol took a Constitutional Amendment to ban alcohol. So his postulate was that a ban on any substance would take a Constitutional Amendment. I ask anyone here to give me a Constitutional argument that would hold water against his postulate. I think the federal government has to step back to the Constitutional restraints placed upon it and allow the states to go their own way. I would prefer 50 different levels of liberty and freedom to choose from. For those that want the nanny state can live in Massachusetts. For those that want actual freedom can move to Texas.
I call myself a TEA partier, for they generally stand for limited Constitutional government. As for the infiltration of the TEA party, the neo cons have definitely attempted to do that have they not?
You want to take back the country? Here you go…
1. The POTUS, someone in executive authority at least, needs to seize multinational banks and the Federal Reserve. Hold the criminal members of their boards under anti-terrorist legislation until their trials, after which we can abolish the worst parts of those laws.
2. Having nationalised the money supply and means of credit distribution, low-interest loans must be offered freely for productive purposes.
3. A high protective tariff for industries we can reasonably revive.
4. Seal off the border and enforce immigrant law.
5. A high Tobin tax on currency speculation and the institution of capital flow controls to protect the economy from speculative attack.
6. Public works projects.
7. Encourage states to shift their tax burden away from consumption of basic items like food and clothes.
That should bring full employment in a few years!
@ Ken Hoop…
Are you still here? Funny… I thought you became irrelevant a long time ago… like in the 70′s.