The Tea Party has chosen to be for what is popular (and against what is
not): no one ever says they don't get taxed enough. Government spending
can be measured in the trillions, a number most cannot fathom. And
illegal immigration is, well, illegal.
One needs to dig deeply into analysis to understand that each of these issues is more complicated than the Tea Partiers let on. Taxes will always be necessary to allow society to assist individuals in ways they cannot do for themselves, such as making roads, maintaining street lights and maintaining order. Because of these common needs, we will always have a government that taxes and spends. As for illegal immigrants, the simple fact that many people are unwilling to do jobs that people emigrate here to do keeps this issue in play.
But popularity, often derived through polls and the mainstream media, does not reflect reason as well as emotion. Many people still conform to ideas that should have been discarded by now:
Osama bin Laden did 9/11 (though even the FBI acknowledges a lack of evidence for this idea)
Barack Obama is a socialist (though the United States Socialist Party has denounced him)
The United States is a Christian Nation (though there is no mention of God or Christianity in the Constitution)
Our nation is lost and probably always has been. Our leaders have always manipulated us the way the Tea Party does.
We have thrived on military might to get what we want from the rest of the world. We have, through educational institutes, told children to worship the flag by encouraging the repetition of the Pledge of Allegiance the way churches tell them to believe in the superiority of their religion and their nation. Worshipers conform and do not question authority or much else around them.
Of course they do not all take their own lives, commit fraud or shun those who seek the truth. They just see their own image and not their true selves in the decisions they make, perhaps the biggest tragedy of all.
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One needs to dig deeply into analysis to understand that each of these issues is more complicated than the Tea Partiers let on. Taxes will always be necessary to allow society to assist individuals in ways they cannot do for themselves, such as making roads, maintaining street lights and maintaining order. Because of these common needs, we will always have a government that taxes and spends. As for illegal immigrants, the simple fact that many people are unwilling to do jobs that people emigrate here to do keeps this issue in play.
But popularity, often derived through polls and the mainstream media, does not reflect reason as well as emotion. Many people still conform to ideas that should have been discarded by now:
Osama bin Laden did 9/11 (though even the FBI acknowledges a lack of evidence for this idea)
Barack Obama is a socialist (though the United States Socialist Party has denounced him)
The United States is a Christian Nation (though there is no mention of God or Christianity in the Constitution)
We have thrived on military might to get what we want from the rest of the world. We have, through educational institutes, told children to worship the flag by encouraging the repetition of the Pledge of Allegiance the way churches tell them to believe in the superiority of their religion and their nation. Worshipers conform and do not question authority or much else around them.
Of course they do not all take their own lives, commit fraud or shun those who seek the truth. They just see their own image and not their true selves in the decisions they make, perhaps the biggest tragedy of all.
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