“it’s clear that those who run many state parties and quite a few incumbent moderate Republican lawmakers are more threatened than pleased at the results of the 2010 elections, when the GOP took back the U.S. House and significantly improved its representation in statehouses and state legislatures.”
That’s because most politicians, both Democratic and Republican, want their voters fat, dumb, and stupid. They don’t want them to read, let alone do any research into the issues that matter the most to our country these days. And the politicians certainly do NOT want the people to do “silly” things like read the Constitution or actually attend town hall meetings. No, what a “waste” of time that would be, right?
Politicians in both parties have had it so soft for so many years. In a country where barely 50% of the population votes in an election, politicians bank on the fact that you are stupid and get most of your information from television commercials. In a country where most people can’t name either the vice president, their own senator or congressman, let alone who the Speaker of the House is (fat chance to that), politicians want you to get all of your news from Jay Leno, David Letterman, or Jon Stewart. A very few voters will also have their political views shaped by the mainstream media and, well, we all know who they are going to support (and it sure ain’t the Republicans).
That’s why the Tea Parties scare politicians to death. The Tea Parties showed all politicians that people CAN read, they ARE smart, and that they DO take an interest in who is governing them. Not only that, they actually have a copy of the constitution and are fond of referring to it when making a point. To a politician, that alone is like showing a cross to a vampire. And to make things even worse for conventional politicians, the Tea Parties only elected people who swore they would actually do what the people elected them for, which was to cut taxes, cut spending, and reduce the size of government.
That’s why the Tea Parties have to go. They stand in the way of the RINOs and the liberal Democratic politicians to continue growing the size of government. Remember, you are talking to politicians who have made politics a business, and if anybody is seen elbowing in to their territory, they need to be destroyed. Just like the Union leaders at SEIU can’t stand the fact that some states actually do NOT want unions running their governments. Just ask the governor of Wisconsin how safe it is to take on the unions for the benefit of his own state and his own people.
But what the politicians always forget is that there are Americans out there who do take an interest in who’s governing them and that there are people who do take in interest in how our government is run and how our money is spent. Remember, folks, the politicians work for us, not the other way around. We DO have a say in the matter and the elections of 2010 made that point very, very, clear. But what we need to do now is keep up the pressure. Nobody said this struggle would be short or easy. When you go into a den of thieves, don’t be surprised if they want to fight back when you try to throw them out. We can do it. It takes patience, strength, and a lot of character, three things that Americans fortunately have a lot of. We will show Washington that we can make a difference by electing the people who actually do represent us, and not themselves.
So be of good cheer, America. Vote this November and keep the Tea Parties close to your hearts. We will continue the struggle, if not for anything else just to educate the public on what is actually going on in Washington. Together we can certainly make a difference, just like we did in 2010. Don’t let anybody tell you your vote doesn’t matter because, as always, that’s what the life-long professional politicians want you to believe. And even if we don’t get the perfect Republican president, if we can hold on to the House and get the Senate as well, that will be a lot. And the Democrats know it.
