If it is REALLY that bad, why is the TEA Party is spreading; different names, different countries - Granite Grok

If it is REALLY that bad, why is the TEA Party is spreading; different names, different countries

Gadsden FlagFive years old – and ONLY five years old is the TEA Party movement.  Wildly taunted by the Left as being right wing extremists, racists, homophobes and any other adjectives or names they believe will denigrate or diminish its attraction and influence.  The Democrats are bolstered by their captive MSM who sometimes use exactly the same terminology or couch in finer wording but with the same underlying nuances to influence people from understanding its three Main Principles:

  • An adherence to Fiscal Frugality by our elected officials
  • A respect and willingness to keep their governance in line with the Letter & Spirit of the Constitution
  • Move back to Free Markets

These are hardly “right wing” positions – these are common sense EXCEPT if one is Socialist / Communist / Statist in outlook and action.  These are values that traditionally made and kept America strong – so why is the Left so adamant in tearing them down (er, rhetorical question – we KNOW why they do)?  Yet, their efforts have not accomplished what they desired – each time they proclaim that they have finally killed off this Libery & Freedom movement, Obi-Wan’s words are recalled (“If you strike me down, I will come back twice as strong”).  After all, no matter the light in which it has been presented, it still occupies (heh!) a large share of the political talk.  While I disagree about the “three convictions” listed, they are concerns of many in the movement, especially the first two:

Soon after President Obama took office, that movement congealed into a Tea Party movement in America that The Economist noted is unified by those who “share three convictions: that the ruling elite has lost touch with the founding ideals of America, that the federal government is a bloated, self-serving Leviathan, and that illegal immigration is a threat to social order.”

Every PEW poll I have seen dealing with this subject shows that what the “leaders” in DC believe to be important are generally way down the list of concerns of the ordinary folks (like immigration reform where only 3% of Americans believe it to be important) and those that are high (national debt) are dismissed by those same elites.   And now it has spread to Europe (emphasis mine) and growing.

Those ideals are spreading to Europe and attracting not only Europeans who want to hearken “back to simpler times,” but also those of all political stripes who “worry about immigration.” They often “spring from the squeezed middle – people who feel that the elite at the top and the scroungers at the bottom are prospering at the expense of ordinary working people. And they believe the centre of power – Washington or Brussels – is bulging with bureaucrats hatching schemes to run people’s lives.”

It has been said often – people wish to be free to run and live their own lives.  They resent being told that their Govt has pre-decided for them – that Government has become too intrusive and unconnected.  The EU bureaucrats are the new apparatchik and act just as snobbishly as their predecessors, the European Nobility.  Certainly, the names have changed, the times have changed, but they well demonstrate that for many, that human nature to reach for and acquire power over others is just as strong when the Royal Houses of Europe actually reigned – and why our Founders created the Constitution to keep that from happening.

Many of our elite Progressive intelligensia and elected bemoan the “lack of trust in Government” as if we are to always believe that Government only has the best of intentions (even as we see the politicization and weaponization of Government agencies in support of the Obama regime).  And then they fail to see the irony as those same governments begin to demand that trust:

Described as anti-elitist, anti-Brussels, and against unchecked immigration, European Tea Party leaders like Geert Wilders, who leads the Freedom Party in the Netherlands, Marine Le Pen, who leads France’s Front National (FN) movement, and Nigel Farage, who leads the the UKIP (The United Kingdom Independence Party), are heading movements that “are populist and nationalist.” Their supporters are fed up with those who got Europe into the political and fiscal mess that it is in today. And similar movements are gaining strength in Italy, Austria, Poland, Romania, and even Greece. Those who support the European Tea Party movements have said they are not against institutions, but rather fiercely opposed to the “cosy mainstream consensus” in which “the left and right… says the same.”

Results matter, and the results are lacking as they perceive that they are viewed as things and not people.  And so, it grows.  Just like here in the US, they want Govt to do what it should, but no more.  Instead of doing everything, do the few things that are the Proper Role of Government well or better.  Go read the whole thing.

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