Posted on 04/08/2010 7:02:56 AM PDT by Brookhaven
The Tea Party movement doesn't have a single leader or a central organization, and that's the way the members of the movement like it. How though, can an unorganized movement get anything done?
Economist Adam Smith addressed this same question. He recognized that the free market is made up of countless businesses all pursuing their own goals. With no central leadership or organization the free market system in many ways resembles chaos. Yet out of this chaos emerges a coherent system that produces a greater common good: an efficient and productive economy. Smith called this phenomenon the free market's invisible hand.
In this book we'll take concepts from economics and apply them in a new and unique way to politics. From the outside it will resemble chaos, but the result will be a coherent and efficient system that achieves the goals of the Tea Party movement. Our new system will produce a greater common good without centralized organization or leadership, because (like the free market system) it will be guided by an invisible force-the conservative hand.
No more talk,,It is time for action.
It is time to follow our the lead of the Founders
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness”….Thomas Jefferson
One of the things the Dems hate about the Tea-Party (among many) is that there is no clear leader. If there WERE, the Dems could spend unlimited time and money discrediting that person and, with him/her, the credibility of the tea-party movement in general.
One more example of smart politics among the Tea-Party movement.
The same-old, same-old just won’t work anymore, so all new ideas are welcome!
One of the things the Dems hate about the Tea-Party (among many) is that there is no clear leader.
Adam Smith identified it as the free markets invisible hand. Something that allows the free market to be unorganized and leaderlss, yet acheive a common goal.
This book takes those economic principles and applies them to politicis. It explains how to create a policial version of Smith’s invisible hand (called the conservative hand in the book) that will allow the Tea Party movement to remain leaderless, yet acheive a common goal.
Think about what it would be like if we applied free market business principles to the Tea Party movement. It would look like chaos, yet still be organized. There would be no leaders, yet it would still be led. There would be no single goal, yet a larger goal would be achieved.
Here is the starting list that will protect us from government and get government back to its rightful size: http://pushbackuntil.com. These are the points we need to push until we get people in Congress who will act and vote these things into law.
Dear Friends, The attached link is a quick review of a new book titled: “The Conservative Hand: A Manifesto to Achieve Conservative Political Goals.”
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It correlates Adam Smith's “invisible hand” to the successful leaderless Tea Party's “conservative hand.”
I love/hate to brag, but this was my point/prediction (and hope) over a year ago when I penned my little essay, “Good News: The Republicans are Leaderless.” The GOP power vacuum left after the 2008 elections was and is being filled with the Tea Party movement. (Aside: Remember how the left tried to elevate Rush as leader of the GOP, then in a masterful stroke Rush passed the title to Colin Powell!)
Which brings me to my next point; which is likely unachievable but should be promoted nevertheless. Call on the current GOP Leadership to rotate their positions (akin to term limits for leaders) in solidarity with the Founding Fathers, especially Geo. Washington, for a clear and tangible demonstration that they are not in DC to accumulate power; rather to protect and reaffirm that the power resides in the people.
In short to the GOP ... no more power trip games ... put up or shut up! ... or leave.
Well placed essays and other promotions should get the idea circulating.
Ponder the political dynamics and calculus watching a news conference with Bohner, McConnell, et al, announcing there is too much power in DC and therefore they are stepping down to appoint new members for the various managerial posts in the Congress to demonstrate that the GOP is fully committed in word and deed to protect the powers inherent in people and not in a quest for personal power in Washington DC.
That would put a pickle in every pocket of every power broker in DC.
It’s “We the People” (yeah, the same ones referred to in the Constitution) who are waking up to the fact that we’ve got a job to do. “We” see what happens to our country when it’s been allowed to run on auto-pilot. (like the joke about the guy who put his motor home on ‘cruise control’). Bad things can happen on cruise control.
This is a marvelous insight! I immediately recalled my days as a Research and Development mid-level manager. I NEVER saw a workable new idea from the “leadership”. All the new ideas come from the “Bench-Level Scientists”, who presented their proposals to the “leadership” (managers) for support in the annual budget process. New ideas bubbled-up from the bottom, and never originated from the Top!
The same is true in our political process, and that is why those involved in the “Tea Party” are engaged at the local levels. “All Politics are Local”. How else can our political “leadership” get ideas that reflect the will of the people?
Maybe the new paradigm will be more a revolution in our thinking. We must realize that the current “leadership” in both political parties should be “managers” and not “creators” because no one is capable of matching the totality of the creative thought of the populous. If this were in place on a national level we would never have had Obamacare or the other abortions of legislation currently being considered!
Sometimes we become too enamored with “leadership”...
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The left has adopted a socialist model for their acitivy. Everything is driven from the top. Even their “grass roots” movements (which “spontaneously” show up all wearing the same t-shirts and holding the same pre-printed signs) are driven from the top down.
As far as I’m concerned, they can keep their model. We;re conservatives, we need to model ourselves after things that work (like the free-market system). We have to be carefull though, to pick the right free market model. Most of the innovation and energy in the free market comes from small businesses, not corporate conglomerates. I saw where a number of groups are forming a national tea party coalition, and thought to myself: that looks a lot like the political version of a corporate conglomerate.
Small and quick on your feet works better in both business and politics.
This is a marvelous insight! I immediately recalled my days as a Research and Development mid-level manager. I NEVER saw a workable new idea from the “leadership”. All the new ideas come from the “Bench-Level Scientists”, who presented their proposals to the “leadership” (managers) for support in the annual budget process. New ideas bubbled-up from the bottom, and never originated from the Top!
Sometimes we become too enamored with “leadership”...
You’re right that we have spent too much time looking to politicians as “leaders” instead of “public servants.” Our system of government was never envisioned to be a to top-down control structure. The book presents ways to return it to a bottom-up control structure, where we lead politicians, instead of them leading us.
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