More Tea for the Party, Please

It’s not easy to brainwash large groups of people but who says you can’t try. Ever since the Tea Party has come into existence every liberal Democrat, meaning most; and many Republicans have equated this grassroots organization with the same virulence  we reserve for terrorist organizations. They have been portrayed as white supremacists, racists, hate mongers, anarchists – and why? Because they espouse their own notions on how they would like to see their country run, preferably staying within the prescribed margins of our Constitution and adhering to our system of laws. In today’s skewed view of our national destiny one can understand their disapproval of the Tea Party.

Apparently if you don’t like to pay ever higher taxes to support the entitlement class; or you want to see your nation put in place a rational immigration policy you are an enemy of the state, according to  reverends Jackson and Sharpton, Sen. Harry “Three Tongue” Reid (D-NV), Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA). And others who have likened the Tea Party with the Klu Klux Klan. I can’t overlook the irony.

The Tea Party  has been maligned more  than the  southern segregationist members of the Democrat party who closed their eyes and looked away while high pressure hoses and police dogs were turned on women and children. They fought against civil rights and delayed, as long as they could, the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Tea Party participants have been ridiculed as have their high profile proponents like Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Sens. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul. Certainly one can understand the moral and intellectual superiority of the Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and the aforementioned Harry “Three Tongue” Reid who denigrate as unpatriotic those who believe in a smaller federal government, lowering the national debt, opposing tax increases and amnesty for illegal immigrants and reducing government spending.

We are now entering the era of democracy, Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville warned us about in the 19^th century: “The American Republic will endure until the day the Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the public's money." That day has arrived.

But it helps to paint the  the opposition as a heartless monolith diametrically opposed to the liberal paradigm of government give-a-way policies and the envisioned dream of a democratic socialist nirvana. Today  the monolith  is the Tea Party; tomorrow it will be something else.