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Whether you personally participated in a “Tea Party” event this week, or just followed the coverage of them, you could not escape the controversy --- no matter which side of the argument you are on.
In its simplest form, it is easy to say that the Tea Party of 2009 was nothing like the Boston tea Party of 1773. In 1773, to the best of our knowledge, it was all about unfair taxation. In 2009, thanks to partisans, the root cause of 800 local Tea Parties is not as clear.
Those on the left such as Keith Olberman, Janeane Garofalo and Susan Roesgen are fast to claim that the action which citizens took in 2009 was not about taxes, but, instead about racism, anti-government sentiment, and brainwashing by the far right.
On the other side of the blotter. people such as Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich, and Michelle Malkin are ready, willing and able to beat the tax drums loudly, but, in large part, they fail to tell the whole story of what is happening in America today, and instead, prefer to bash the far left.
I, your trusted and reliable writer will make the issues very clear. The 2009 Tea Party was simply about Americans being fed up with what has happened, and continues to happen in our country. This not a Democrat or Republican slam. It is not a Bush or Obama partisan debate. Here is what this is about-
• The quality of life for our citizens is worsening every day.
• Americans are wondering why illegal aliens are being handed benefits (college aid, drivers licenses, the right to vote, etc.) that they had to earn.
• Small businesses are dying, and no one in Washington cares, now, or under the former administration.
• We are watching huge corporations being bailed out by legislators who still accept donations from these firms.
• Americans wonder what ever happened to “checks and balances.”
• Citizens are confused by the media. Like politics, we have “reporters” (actually they are more like “commentators”) and media outlets that sit on one side of the issue or another. There is a dearth of independent broadcasters who offer us unvarnished facts and information so that we can come to our own conclusions.
• As a society, here too, thanks to the media, we have lost our ability to debate issues in a civil manner. When an issue arises that is uncomfortable for one side or another, bombs (racism, elitism, sexual preference, lack of morals, social irresponsibility, etc.) are immediately hurled.
We, and those in the media, seem to forget the 2009 Tea Party began with a stream of consciousness in February by CNBC’s Rick Santelli.
So please allow me to put a bow on all of this. Whether you wish to argue whether this week’s events were about taxes or not, is moot. The reality is that Americans are, and have been, growing more disgusted with the direction that the United States of America is racing towards.
Democrats and Republicans, along with the media, are responsible. We have not had a “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” type politician, or an Edward R. Murrow news reporter to turn to in a very long time, and worse yet, there appears to no such figures on the horizon.
Whatever your take on the Tea Party of 2009, I think that we can all agree that the citizenry is unhappy, and growing more and more discontented with the State of the United States.
Are we at the forefront of the next American Revolution? On our present course, it would be irresponsible to ignore the possibility.
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