The hijacking of the "Tea Party" movement.
Posted on February 8, 2010 - 5 hours ago
In 2007, the election was looming and the campaign trail was extremely fresh. It was chock full of potential candidates from all walks of the political spectrum but one man rallied everyday citizens to abandon the rhetoric that is modern politics. Ron Paul stood for something more, maybe a time so far gone that few can even fathom a country with limited government. Soon all over the country groups of people started popping up and assembling under one cause. It didn't matter if you were a Democrat, a Republican, or even Green Party, the point was that you were tired of big government's out of control spending and unconstitutional progress. No one really invented this movement but like all famous movements it came into being through need. The need was to hear the cry of American citizens who had enough of Bush's policy and refused to put up with anymore limitless spending, desecration of civil liberties, and interventionist foreign policy. The movement garnered national attention and at one point was branded an anarchist movement which it was absolutely not. A force was being born.
Fast forward to present day and the Tea Party has evolved. We now see an influx of "Obama haters" who might not have the true ideals of the movement in mind. There are a new set of voices infecting a movement that had nothing to do with a more Christian America. A new set of voices infecting the movement that had nothing to do with a black president. The voices belong to the Neo-Conservatives, people who support big government tactics and now are quietly changing their tune to take advantage of something special. Media pundits like Glen Beck have decided to try and hop on a bandwagon that stands against everything he stands for. Sarah Palin has somehow, thanks to the media, become a de-facto leader to a movement that was so far removed from her Christian conservative ideals, a year ago she would have been booed off the stage. The movement is slowly turning into a re-branding for the Republican party and that is horrible. There are now so many voices for special interest that we can no longer discern what the Tea Party really means. There are so many different versions of it that no one knows who or what to support. Once again the Libertarian movement has been sabotaged and hijacked in the name of "Republican Conservatism". People like Ron Paul have been replaced with Sarah Palin and John McCain. Libertarian values have been hijacked and replaced with the same old conservative rhetoric.
So what to do about nothing I suppose? The truth is the powers that be will destroy everything the Tea Party meant. Where once there was a call for limited government powers and a stable monetary system we now have a cry to "destroy terrorism" and signs of Barack Obama dressed as Hitler. Everything that once was has now ceased to be and those who understand civil liberty, limited government, and sound money have to go back to the drawing board. Neo-Conservatives will parlay these grassroots movement into a force to sneak puppets into governmental positions. The biggest loser is the American citizen. You see originally it never mattered what political party you supported, but now it does. My advice, follow men you know won't re-brand themselves at every turn. Men like Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Rand Paul, Lew Rockwell, and so on. Socialism is coming to America, and all that matters to the Democrats and Republicans is who gets to celebrate when it arrives.
As for the great new leader of the "party"... she can't deliver a speech without writing a cheat sheet on her hand. Is this 9th grade history class? Give me a break. We want leaders, not actors or puppets.
