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Yes, it is a “what” - an idea that is as timeless as the great intellectual and philosophical underpinnings that the founders bestowed upon us - their “posterity”, as they often called it.

It hearkens to a framework that emphasizes personal liberty and freedom for society in general, that gives boundless opportunity to the fuller realization of each individual dream.

It emphasizes the individual, rather than the collective, which history over time has revealed as one of the great failings of mankind's social experiments.

As our birthright, this philosophy is branded deeply into our psyche, so that it's adherents intuitively know that people were not born individuals so they could grow up to be part of a collective; that “all men are created equal” does not mean that all men must be the same, so that, rather than equality of opportunity, we must have equality of outcome; that whenever our eyes cast upon the wealth that our society creates, and can create, we know in our hearts the best answer to embrace is, “all men should live like this”, not “no man should live like this”.

Socialism, Communism, “progressivism” - it doesn't really matter what terminology you use here, as the end result for all is the same - by it's very nature runs against the grain of human life, human thought, human development. A failure everywhere it's been tried, these collectivist theologies bring nothing but poverty, despair, moral degeneracy, and the eventual collapse of society and, yes, even civilization, if permitted to run to it's logical conclusion.

These anti-human toxicologies, it should be remembered, are not really political and philosophical justification for the poor and “downtrodden” to embrace as a political system based on such. Socialism and it's bastard brethren are really a vehicle for the very, very wealthy and cultural elites to hold and and rule a society for their own benefit.

With the election and ascension of Barack Obama, the Left really felt it was in the end game for control of this country, and consequently, the West. They did not foresee the emergence of this political movement that cannot be shot down with the loss of a “leader”, cannot be numbed into silence with persistent media savaging, and cannot be outargued by a pernicious and failed ideology that, quite really, while moderately interesting from a philosophical point of view, never really should have left the halls of academia.

The concept of the TEA party continues to grow precisely because it strikes a resonant chord within the hearts and minds of Americans who know, at it's most basic, this is the age-old story of right and wrong, good and evil, come to life again in their own time, their own generation.

We are, I'll admit, in a race against time, as the left has had a big head start on removing America's infrastructure and replacing it with it's own.

Will we win?

I dunno.

But I know this. As long as there are free men who are willing to fight and die for something so valuable, so human, and so right as the ideas and principles that are America, we'll have a chance.

Embrace this country, and the ideals upon which it was founded, and don't let go.

Do it for yourself, your family, your children, your future. But do it.

CA....