No more proof needed that the Left has no understanding of Tea Party, the original Boston tea party, the Constitution how it came to be, and the meaning of all three.
Sorry I have to disagree, Sir Napsalot, but E. J. Dionne Jr. (love the junior part, it fits), understands all three just fine. He and his fellow elitists just reject them, and then try to deceive enough people into believing that they hold mainstream American values, when self-evidently, they don’t.
For E. J., murder is not always to be thought of as murder if it furthers the political goals he favors, so you will hear him condoning abortion, euthanasia, and other practices that blur the borderlands of life. For him life is not sacred, it is a commodity (remember, he is a philosophical materialist along with all other socialist types) to be granted/apportioned as the all knowing political/intellectual elite deem proper. Adultery is not always to be thought of as adultery if it serves the same purposes, so you will hear him condoning homosexuality, an “open” marriage policy, or philandering politicians (so long as they support the right things). It is simply a matter of getting enough people, confused by the pangs of their conscience getting in the way of what they are told is good and right, to look continuously to government and the so-called intelligentsia to explain to them how, really, this is good and normal and beneficial to society when it simply isn’t. Stealing is not always to be thought of as stealing if it serves the proper political purpose. Thus we can talk about confiscatory taxation for the purpose of redistributing wealth as if is is only different in degree from taxation necessary to keep the nation safe and secure. Bearing false witness is not always to be thought of as bearing false witness if it is used to destroy a political enemy of the left.
The left is operating with a different set of commandments than the majority. In E. J.’s world there is no such thing as a fixed morality, moral absolutes of right and wrong. Everything is negotiable ... everything. He, as other leftists before him (think French Revolution, the Nazis (yes, they were not of the right but of the left), the Bolsheviks, the Maoists) never see to understand that the day will come when, if they are successful, the machine they have created will turn on them and destroy them.
It is not that the leftist elite, as distinguished from the fools who listen to them, don’t understand the Tea Party, the original Boston tea party or the Constitution. They do, but do not agree with their goals and purposes. E. J. is not stupid. However, at this point in time he is getting frustrated, because the American populace is not as stupid as the Juniors of this world would like to believe it is. And when you are a member of the self-admitted smartest and most elite ever, that is pretty frustrating. Narcissism gone bad is pretty ugly.