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April 15, 2009
Tea parties and the movement behind them
Topics: Political News and commentariesFor those who may still be a bit confused as to what the tea parties being held in more than 300 locations in all 50 states are about, Dan Riehl offers a few informative links and explains that they have nothing to do with political persuasion and are more about a concerned citizenry growing increasingly disconnected from a governing class, than it is anything else.
I encourage readers to be sure to read Glenn Reynolds' article titled "Tax Day Becomes Protest Day" (How the tea parties could change American politics) that Dan links to in his piece. Glenn suggests that the tea parties are likely to inject new life into small-government politics around the nation and could have an impact on the 2010 and 2012 elections, and perhaps beyond.As Michelle Malkin issues a warning to so-called "fair weather Republicans" and Glenn Reynolds fills in the real back story of the Tea Party movement in the Wall Street Journal, politicians, activists and on lookers of every stripe might be well advised to try and understand what is actually going on here, so as not to misinterpret the Tea Party movement.
Any line in the sand being drawn here is not between the Left and the Right, Republican versus Democrat, or one socio-economic political agenda or class versus another. The line being drawn is between the proverbial We the People and those that have been governing America for decades.
While today's economic issues and an aggressive public policy agenda of a young new president may be helping to bring the thoughts and feelings behind this movement to a head, it is more about a concerned citizenry growing increasingly disconnected from a governing class, than it is anything else.
There can be no question that an almost governing elite now spending trillions of dollars in part because it perceives a financial crisis is comprised of the very same individuals with the same ideas and plans that steered America down this path in the first place.
Read it all, here...
Posted by Hyscience at April 15, 2009 6:32 AM
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