Tea Partiers Are Anti-Statist Radicals
By E.J. DionneWASHINGTON -- So what exactly is the Tea Party movement and why has it risen up?
.....SNIP.....So, yes, parts of this movement do seem to be motivated by a new nativism, and by racism. But it would be a mistake to see the hostility to Obama only in terms of race.
Something else is going on in the Tea Party movement, and it has deep roots in our history. Anti-statism, a profound mistrust of power in Washington, goes all the way back to the Anti-Federalists who opposed the Constitution itself because they saw it concentrating too much authority in the central government. At any given time, perhaps 20 percent to 25 percent of Americans can be counted on to denounce anything Washington does as a threat to "our traditional liberties."
Anti-Federalists? You mean like Thomas Jefferson who urged COMPLETE opposition until the list of 10 limits on national power he sent over to Madison was adopted? You mean like that? You mean like the men who cynically used human weakness and ambition to limit all three branches' urge to power by pitting them against each other?
Is this anti statist?
We demand:
that our government practice the same level of fiscal responsibility that we, as ordinary citizens, must abide by in running our own households.
Or is it an American that can say no, MUST do so, and is responsible for the national state welfare?
4 comments:
Woo Hoo! I haven't been called an anti-statist radical since about 1976!
AOW says: I'm proud to be an anti-statist.
That columnist is so fucked-up I puke just thinking about him.
Having made that poignant point, allow me some moderation and sense: It is people who hate the average American citizen, by which I mean numbers defined by race and income, i.e. that most Americans by number are White and middle-class, those who hate such people, average Americans, are anti-American. Given that the nation is America, that makes those who hate it enemies of the American republic.
Minority people, of whatever sort short of minor, criminals, and non-legal residents, do not have any legitimate right to define our nation as our nation. When they attempt to do so, they are insurrectionists. Our home is our home because that's what we got when we came here. We came to a nation, not a state, state being "government."
We love the nation, not The State.
We're going to end up with a civil war if this continues, factions fighting on the side of the nation or the State. I like to think that some education and common sense can prevent that, but I'm not putting my money on it.
Reminds me of a story John Chancellor, once hte NBC news achor b4 cable told of the opening of better relations between the US and USSR over a joint space mission to skylab.
The russians were here training in Florida, and (I think it was Alexeyev) said to one of our people ..'you have huge supermarkets, new cars, great movies, gigantic shopping malls, beautiful homes, and are surrounded by pretty women, and you go wherever you want whenever you want to, yet on TV all I hear are complaints, and negative stories' ..John Chancellor looked at the camera, smiled and said, 'They don't get it and they never will'
So with THESE people like Dionne. They look at people who SHARE even ..SOME.. of the tea party views (usually the core about fiscal responsibility, and all that really means) .. and they just don't get it, and they never will. There is something missing.
If they ever were at a camp site, they'd be looking for the person whose job it was to light the fire, or pitch the tent. Or at least, the person in charge, to get the designated worker to fulfill his place in the order.
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