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Although its not easy to articulate or put onto a sign, I believe the real motivation for the “tea parties” is the uneasy sense of America losing its soul. Many of us older folks grew up in a different era where concepts like respect, decorum, the rule of law, Judeo-Christian prinicples, and compassion and charity were givens. One didn’t really think about these ideas, Americans, in large part, just lived them. That’s not to say we were perfect, far from it, but the strength of our culture and country was the ability to take a hard look at ourselves and improve things. In my lifetime probably the greatest step our culture took was to acknowledge that Dr. King was right and from that came the civil rights legislation.

But then, my generation, the Age of Aquarius (and narcissism) came roaring onto the cultural scene. After 40+ years of this navel gazing and new age thinking our culture is being torn apart by those who benefited most from it. I will leave the underlying psychology to others, but those phony revolutionaries now run the media, our universities, our teachers’ unions, and our courts. And, some argue, control our political system. I wouldn’t disagree.

That’s why people are angry – our culture is under attack and people are not just fed up, but a bit scared as well, because the threat of losing our American soul is real. The left has been priming for this moment ever since Bill Ayers started planting bombs and others embraced the cold-blooded murderer Che Guevara as their revolutionary icon.

So, the ramparts are being manned and they should be. Health care, taxes, government size, etc are all examples of the major battles ahead, but they don’t define the war. The war is about the further destruction of America’s exceptionalism versus restoring, over time, our soul. That’s what, I believe, people are fighting for.