The TEA Party support has waned due to the Media and the opposition of our own party, the Republicans!
We have no party support for lower taxes or smaller Government as both parties support both. They are for control and big Government.
Not sure just how to proceed from here when both parties are against the public - does that mean a revolution to save the country?
If this continues for another few years, it will be unsalvageable. So...do Democrats win and the country loses or do the Republicans win and the country loses?
Opposition isn't what's killing the Tea Party. The movement was born to oppose the forces that are destroying America. It's their very purpose, so no, that's not the reason.
The reason interest has waned, is because people wanted results, and got speeches instead. They wanted to go to war against the evil that is killing this nation, and they got rallies in the park instead. They dutifully showed up to meetings, ready to participate in the restoration of their once magnificent country, and they got lectured to by budding politicians instead.
In short, Americans across the country were fired up to follow the example of those brave patriots at the Boston Tea Party. They were ready to do whatever it took to take back their country, but little was accomplished, except making a lot of noise.
I myself stopped going to my local Tea Party meetings when I realized that the organizers weren't prepared to take our protest to a level that would make real progress toward our stated goals.
In my opinion, all of that incredible energy was wasted. A real movement would have more resembled what we saw in Egypt this last summer. Those people dropped everything and rushed to their capitol city. They came in the millions, and stayed as long as it took. They stood their ground and braved real injury for doing so. They loved their country too much to let the radicals take it away from them, and they were willing to suffer real pain to see things their way.
Until we love our country as much as the Egyptians love theirs, and are willing to set aside our comfort and even our incomes to stand in protest, then nothing will change.