Posted on 04/08/2010 10:52:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Democratic officeholders should be afraid.
Republican officeholders, too.
For many a year now, officeholders of both major parties have worked hard to earn the distrust of ordinary Americans. It appears that they finally have succeeded.
If only ordinary Americans hadn't been so inattentive. If only ordinary Americans hadn't been so trusting. If only ordinary Americans hadn't been so damnably nice, the country would be in a better position to manage its finances today.
But when have Americans not tried to look for the good in every situation? When have we not been slow to recognize the need to deal with forces, foreign or domestic, aligning against our best interests?
Better late than never, a lot of ordinary Americans are waking up to the sobering reality that there really is no one they can trust. Not Democrats. Not Republicans. Not government. Not corporations. And certainly not corporations in league with government.
Hallelujah.
The people who are angry today are more in tune with this nation's founders than ordinary Americans have been in decades.
The United States has an intricate system of checks and balances, and a government structure based on a separation of powers, and a Bill of Rights that safeguards the rights of states and the rights of the people precisely because the greatest collection of political talent and philosophical insight ever assembled on this continent -- and maybe anywhere on this planet -- looked at the concept of government and said, "We need to make a really small cage for this thing, then be careful not to overfeed it."
We seem to have lost the care-and- feeding instructions about a century ago. We let government out of its little cage and it has been consuming everything it can lay its paws on ever since. In the last 45 years, it has been on a real binge, and in the last year and a half, it has taken bigger bites than a lot of people thought possible.
Ordinary Americans who care about freedom are finally getting a clue and -- horrors! -- they're hollering at members of Congress. That's right: Nice, trusting, formerly inattentive Americans are getting in the faces of the political class and calling them names.
Big (Joe Biden expletive deleted) deal. If members of the political class are too tender to endure a little well-earned rudeness from the people whose hard-earned money they like to "spread around," then they ought to get out of politics. Maybe their successors will find the voice of the people less irritating.
A very, very few ordinary Americans are going so far as to threaten members of the ruling class with physical harm or property damage. That's not fine.
All that does is damage the cause of the people who are loudly but peaceably petitioning their government for the redress of a growing list of very real grievances.
It also allows politicians on the left, including a president who now taunts opponents of his new health care law every time he speaks, to cast themselves simultaneously as victors and victims.
Finally, threats from the right allow the left to lump every proponent of individual liberty, self-reliance, limited government and limited government spending -- the Tea Party movement, in general -- in with nuts who might actually do some harm.
Don't doubt for a second that the left is hoping desperately for someone to step all the way out of line. They thought they had their man -- and early news reports said they did -- when Joseph Stack crashed his Piper Dakota into an IRS building in Texas.
As it turned out, Stack proved to be a Marx-quoting lefty -- the wrong flavor of nut.
So the left has to settle for a little name-calling of its own: "ignorant," "racist," "homophobes," "hooligans," "extremists." The list, as you know, goes on and on.
It's bunk, but it's the script.
Tea Party folks are just patriots worried, with good reason, about the future of the country they love. They're vocal and they're inspiringly unaffiliated.
They scare the hell out of both political parties, because they've embraced distrust.
The Democrats fear them because they see through the left's empty promise of utopia in exchange for freedom. The Republicans fear them because they're pushy and because they're loyal to their principles rather than to a party.
They make everyone uncomfortable. That's healthy.
Excellent!!!!
Thank God for Glenn Beck!! I first heard about tea parties by watching him. He can take a lot of credit for their success.
Well this writer pretty much nail it!
“They make everyone uncomfortable. That’s healthy.”
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Indeed it is.
So let’s crank it up a few notches.
Put the Volume Dial on 11.
Nice! I’m mailing this off.
Thanks
Just vote them OUT!
Instead, the gov't reminds me more of a three-year-old that's constantly exploring their boundaries. I feel the need to be constantly attentive, to say "NO! Don't touch the cookie jar", then come back two minutes later and find them balancing on a chair, reaching for the cookies again....
I can spank the three-year-old and eventually get the behavior that I'm seeking.
This Novemember, I think, Politicians and Dems in particular are going to going to get the spankings of their lives. I'll be glad to go and cut the switch.
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Signed: Wee Wee, Stinkie and Blinkie
Thanks 2ndDivVet for sharing the article with us.
Jim, you know who we’re up against. You know their history and the pedigree of their ideas. You know what a monstrous, bloody trail people like this have left over the last 150 years or so.
Why on earth would they allow the absolute power they crave to slip from their hands over a silly little election?
Why would those who hold our laws and our founding principles in such utter contempt and hatred suddenly find respect for them?
They’re just beginning to see that it might just all slip away - literally the work of generations. They’er not going to shrug their shoulders and walk away.
These people are monsters. All of them.
Every month the numbers grow...
Well, the way I see it we’ve got two more shots at it. In 2010 and 2012. If we don’t have a nearly 100% turnover in these two election cycles (well, we’ll have to go to 2014 to get the rest of the treasonous senators) we’re going to be beyond the point of no return. If the statists and progressive socialist/fascists are still in charge after this, well, the defense of American Liberty via the ballot box will have failed. America will be up for grabs.
Jim, you’re correct as far as it goes, but your premise is that our traditional mechanism of redress, i.e., voting them out is still operational. I don’t believe that it is. We’ve been allowed to maintain that fiction so far, and some of desperately want to belive that it is true.
But this is for all the marbles, now. Those who who have no respect for the rule of law and our Constitution (and hven’t they come right out and told us so lately?) aren’t about to let that get in the way.
I don’t think that we’re going to see another free and fair election until the dust settles from the next American Revolution - if we’re going to have a Revolution at all.
I dont believe there ever has been such a time.
"...accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
And here's the real problem: It's not JUST the politicians. It's the entrenched staff. It's the government agencies. It's the people that got comfy government jobs. It's the their friends and relatives. It's the whole apparatus of government that has been growing and growing. Voting out individual politicians sounds fine. But the bureaucracy is still there, entrenched. Dug in. It's not going anywhere. It will take massive government layoffs. It will take elimination of entire programs and departments. But it's not going to happen because every politician has been part of this apparatus and it's all they know. All their friends and family are part of it. If they're not part of it when they get to Washington they become part of it. Washington is a feeding trough and our money is the swill they feed off.
Was that the one on TV Hannity? Wish we could have been there.
If we don’t vote them out we’re looking at total economic and political failure. State and local governments are already collapsing. The current government spending rates are simply unsustainable yet the big government/big spenders are just getting warmed up. Obama and the statist/socialist/fascists running congress are freaking idiots. Revolution? If they are allowed to continue, the U.S. will collapse and our country will sink into anarchy and civil war and will be susceptible to hostile invasion and takeover. Who knows what will happen next?
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