Sipsey Street Irregulars: What the Media Miss About the Tea Party Movement

Thursday, May 22, 2014

What the Media Miss About the Tea Party Movement

A counterpoint to yesterday's “How Mitch McConnell crushed the Tea Party” meme.

4 comments:

Shawn McEwen said...: I love this comment:
"US Republicans are the only elected government party in the world that denies global warming. Republicans are bought-and-sold stooges who treat Congress as a means to control their in-the-dark, low-info, largely racist electorate. Nothing the right in this country does is in the best interest of the country. It's always in the best interest of their bank accounts, though."

Now consider this slight revision of his comments...
"US Progressives are the only elected government party in the world that accepts global warming. Progressives are bought-and-sold stooges who treat Congress as a means to control their in-the-dark, low-info, largely racist electorate. Nothing the left in this country does is in the best interest of the country. It's always in the best interest of their Twitter accounts, though."

Yep, I think it fits... talk about psychological projection.

Oh and I wonder why McConnell is considered a Tea Party candidate. He seems pretty establishment to me. I wouldn't vote for him.; May 22, 2014 at 9:58 AM
Paul X said...: The real Tea Party started with Ron Paul. But like every good idea in politics, it was certain to be co-opted by insiders. Politics is a game the peons can never win. Revolution, on the other hand...; May 22, 2014 at 10:18 AM
William Flatt said...: Two thumbs up to Paul X! I agree.

"War is when the government tells you who the enemy is. Revolution is when you figure it out for yourself".; May 22, 2014 at 1:56 PM
Anonymous said...: I think the thing that scares the crap out of the left and the right is the size of the Tea Party. Our ideology is so simple, down home and American, we draw from all quarters. And if the shit hits the fan, the 4GW guerrilla force will draw heavily from Tea Party ideology. We are so pissed about the slow demise of our beloved country that when the liberal, statists make that fatal error and fire that proverbial first shot, Tea Party inspired warriors will materialize from everywhere and from nowhere and the right heads will just start exploding.; May 22, 2014 at 8:32 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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