Why I'm not excited about the Tea Party

I lean strongly towards the conservative end of politics, yet I am not impressed with the Tea Party movement. Why?

1. I've seen it before when we called it "A contract with America" and it ended up doing more harm than good in the long run (think; "We won so now we can rest.") and
2. Most of them just don't get it.

When a grass roots movement thinks they have elected people they agree with into office they quit paying attention and go about their lives. The result is that the moderates who call themselves Republicans continue to copromise with the liberals. This actually means they give in so they can have a photo shoot of everyone smiling and shaking hands. Hello! If I wanted peace in congress, If I wanted to "get something done" I'd vote for Democrats! If I elect someone from what is supposed to be a different party I WANT them to fight!

I don't really know what some think the two party system is supposed to be. There is very little difference between the two. What sums it up is my reason Obama beat McCain: Obama makes a better Liberal than McCain did and there was no Conservative running.

#2 A blog I frequent posted a copy of a bumper sticker that exemplifies this. It said "Keep the Governments Hands off My Medicare." Do these people really not understand that Medicare IS the government? And how selfish; "I have MY government health care but I don't want YOU to have it." sigh. (Note: I DON'T WANT government health care and i am one of those who has been without insurance for ten years the law is supposed to benefit.)

Here is how I see politics:

There is a line with slavery on one end and freedom on the other. Satan hates humans and wants the most hurtful, ungodly system to prevail. God loves humans and wants the best system for them. God set up the nation of Israel to be as free as possible with out becoming anarchists (which inevitably leads to slavery). There was no central government, no standing army, only a temple tax and a head tax, and the temple tax was not enforceable by any authority in the land. God did command compassion for the poor, but He gave no one the power to enforce it. He did give the government of each city the power to execute murderers and punish thieves. God placed Laws over the land that protected personal property rights and freedom from other humans, though not from Himself. So even though He knew about every type of government possible, He chose the one as opposite from socialism as possible for His people.

Socialism is tyranny by committee. It is one group of humans telling the rest of the country where to work, who to hire, where to worship (or usually forbidding it all together), how to educate their children, how much to give to charity and what those charities will be, In short, controlling every aspect of their lives. It is assumed that all things belong to the government (and thus to those in the government) including the people themselves.

So how do our current parties line up?
The official name of the Democrats is "The Socialist Democratic Party." Gee, is it any surprise that the only groups that are more socialist are the ones who are openly called communists? (Socialism and Communism differ only in name). If The Communist Party of America is 100% slave minded, then the Democrats are around 85%. The Green Party is between the two.

The Republicans? Moderates all the way. Well most of them. Let's give them a 50%.

Tea Partyers probably run 30-40%. It varies though. (Our own Sharon Angle was a 15-20, but I have seen ones higher)

American Independents about 30%.

Libertarians 10%.

Where most Tea Partiers fail is their disconnect between what programs the Dems are obviously trying to force on us now and the ones they forced on us in past decades. Many want to keep the status quo. And many fall for the propaganda technique called "either or." This is the fallacy that there are only two option, in this case, either the government pays for, say, education or no one will. (Other countries and history tells us that if the government doesn't pay for education, parents will find a way to do it themselves and that charities (mostly churches) will pickup the slack. Yet anyone against public school is "obviously against education.") Some Tea Partiers do get it, but most don't.

I won't believe you, Mr Politician, truly get this whole freedom thing until I see you campaign to get rid of:

1. Public Schools, the first and most powerful socialist program in America.
2. Social Security (should be phased out continuing to pay those who have paid into it all their lives and depend on it now while offering the middle agers to opt out and not offering it to the young adults.)
3. Medicare (ditto the above)
4. Farm subsidies
5. Planned Parenthood
6. NPR
7. Corporate Bailouts (if they are too dumb to keep themselves out of bankruptcy, they are too dumb to be controlling that much of the economy.)
8. BLM
9. FDA
10. All the welfare this and thats.
11. About 90% of what's left

(I once looked at a pie chart of what government money goes where and if we eliminated all these unconstitutional programs we would have a balanced budget WITHOUT collecting another penny of FDIC (once our current elderly are paid off) or income taxes.)

Every government regulation, every government control is a step closer to slavery. Until I see evidence that the Tea Party understand this, I am less than enthusiastic.