Who are the people in the Tea Party? The Tea Party is changing from what they were a year ago yet the change is not unique. In my first article on the Tea Party I warned them not to be infiltrated and taken over but thats what has happened. And yes there are good people in the Party.
Let me first state what I agree with them on. Replace the 16th and 17th Amendments. Replace the 16th with a fair tax and impose import taxes. As for the 17th Amendment just repeal it and go back as it is written originally in the Constitution.
That said as with things like this the subject is always a mix of good ideas and bad. Therefore we must not get hung up on the noise in the media but keep a sharp eye on history and look for foundational and functional changes, but mostly watch for changes in its character.
Lets start with the takeover by the likes of the Koch brothers. The Koch brothers fund the CATO Institute; Libertarian? I think not. The filthy rich hate the government because it tells them they cant do certain things they want to do. They install this in the Party members. The mantra of the rich is that they know better and they should be the only ones to make the rules as they go along, that the people should have no say in their present conditions economic or otherwise. These are the same types and groups of business people you saw in the 1930s that spout not only economic but philosophical mandates as well.
These groups as in the 1930s were pro Mussolini supporting fascism and Hitler for a total control police state with the attending corporations protected dictating laws to Congress and the courts; rabidly anti-union, hating Roosevelt, hating the New Deal, demanding special privilege for themselves while raising private armies of mercenaries. Not unlike as when Henry Ford created one around his plants. Today we have the Blackwater army. These wage gouging anti-union, middle class destroyers see a future of old world feudalism with the boot heel of fascism on the necks of the people always propped up by the global plantation of cheap labor free from any rules that would make life livable for employees that are reduced to little more than slaves, wage-slaves actually.
This is all reminiscent of groups such as the Liberty League which was pro-fascist, pro NAZI, anti-union. Let us also not forget the hidden hand of wealthy families with their foundations and trusts that secretly fund these groups, but it doesnt stop there. You also have para-military and private police cropping up; just as in the past with groups such as The Silver Shirts, The Sentinels of the Republic, the Brown Shirts. Groups as these supported Mussolini, Hitler and were sympathetic to the philosophies of the AXIS. You see this rising today with so called private armies such as Blackwater.
This is a throughback to neo-feudalism. The flaw in their thinking is that they reject as Webster Griffin Tarpley says, the Modern State. What they miss is that if they reject the Modern State they will get what was before the Modern State which was feudalism but today will be neo-feudalism and that will be more unspeakably horrific in many ways along the spectrum.
THE WORLD BEFORE THE MODERN STATE
What the world was like before the Modern State were kings, lords, barons, dukes and everyone else were serfs. England became a Modern State in the late 1480s under King Henry VII who defeated King Richard III as is so eloquently stated in Shakespeares The Tragedy of King Richard the Third A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse! Pathetic and arrogant, the hunchbacked villain-king Richard III is about to meet his doom at the hands of the future Henry VII. When Richard is killed the guy who takes over is the Earl of Richmond Henry VII and he creates a Modern State which is explicitly against the feudal Nobility. This monarchy was based entirely on the middle class towns and cities meaning those who produce and trade as opposed to those who make their money and get their power from private warfare which was the paradigm and way of the old aristocracy, France as well with King Louie who copied Italy and established a Modern State.
Meanwhile the feudal spoiled class goes nuts and creates a group called the League of the Public Good run by the Duke of Burgundy (not the Duke of Earl Ha, Ha). They then waged a civil war against Louie XI who eventually wipes them out.
Back to England this process of getting rid of these people was brought to a head by the Wars of the Roses where most of the Nobility kicked each other off and the 100 years war between England and France which eliminated a lot of them on both sides. This then through all this turmoil brought us the Modern State.
PARALELLS TO THE 1930s BETWEEN THE REPUBLICANS AND THE TEA PARTIES
Back then there existed groups such as The Foundation for Economic Education FFEE, the Liberty League, The National Association of Manufactures and of course The U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Sound familiar? These were the front line groups of the Roosevelt hating, pro-Wall Street neo & pro fascist outfits. What we are seeing today is the rebirth of this ideology going back to Jimmy Carters employee killing, family destroying Airline Deregulation Act signed by Reagan. Since then there has been a steady march by all the Presidents and Congress to bring us to this point. So the things heard in the 1930s are again said today but have more influence partly because Obama consistently generates waves of revulsion and disgust everywhere even with his once a upon a time supporters.
The lesson to be learned here is if you hated Bush so much that you were taken in by activist Obama and now you hate Obama so much that youll fall for the next clown I urge you to stop and not to be duped by these puppets and learn to think and look whos pulling the strings of all these people. Dont fall for these things you see as they are trying to draw you into giving over your emotions and hopes to such phonies. Rather learn from the experience and realize that the change they promise is probably not a good one for you. Be skeptical, get for yourself that hard and fast checklist and if these people dont make it through your checklist chuck em but first learn how to make a good checklist founded on the cold reality of truth, hard truth. At the very least never trust politicians and so called leaders, their snake oil salesmen. Always save your ability to judge their actions and protect your individuality. Never give your hope to them and this way youll always have and can be proud of your identity, self worth, and your dignity when your need it to fall back on, believe me this protection will make your landing a soft one and no one can ever break your spirit.
