PBoston@39
The Tea Party Movement is the most interesting social/political movement of the last two generations and has the potential to become the most significant movement of the last 100 years.
Significant? Of course. Just the largest number of US citizens protesting in the history of the Nation! As I understand it, it’s supposed to be about the biggest economic-political-societal turnaround in the history of mankind.
I’d say the movement is already as significant as 1775, no? If we don’t prevail beginning now, no one 100 years hence will know about it. (Footnote: Spartacus)
If we do prevail in throwing off the yoke of slavery, it’ll demand a really, really stern approach to reinvigorate the economy/nation/society, given the shape it’ll be in by the time we arrive. To the winners of the next 2 election cycles truly go the spoils.
And if we get so lucky(?) and win a majority, and are empowered and WILLING to dramatically downsize gov’t bureaucracies, revoke most laws, re-emphasizing the remainder, while deregulating entire industries, then it looks to be a 10 year effort at best…
- but only if the citizenry is working in-concert, absent labor strife – Green’s cohesion
- but only if we can collectively figure out what to actually build, fast enough to stave off widespread dispair – absent any guarantees of success in launching NEW industries needing millions of workers;
- but only if we are secure from terror.
Otherwise, it’ll be a multi-generational suffering worldwide, meaning we’re still at war and not winning. WDC delenda est.
It’s not like we can promise full employment; but the Left surely will. Instead, we’ll have to be promising lots more unemployment (removing the shackles), along with just a promise that the bad news is only temporary. And the air and water quality may improve less, and we’re gonna dig up lots of gov’t-owned pristine land, and some little fish might suffer, and yes we intend to cut short the siting processes for lots of facilities, and, and…
We need short concise rejoinders to each of these “concerns.” Verbal encapsulations of our unified POV, adoptable by all Tea-party candidates. Slogans. Eg, Drill baby drill! says it for energy policy. Sara’s “Death panels” provoked the citizenry. Back when I was protesting Sierra Club absurdities in 70′s CA, we had bumper-stickers: Save a tree! Don’t wipe! Even more frugal and eco-friendly than Cheryl Crow.
BC’rs are the most creative and rational thinkers around. Lucid avid writers. In the next few months inumerable messages must get crystal clear, across a gamut of issues. Direct and more persuasive than theirs. Let’s get to work. Behind each slogan has to be the complete and compelling argument, and the necessary documentation/links to convince anyone willing to be.
Mongoose@40,
Let us not forget that they were the party of the slavers. What’s changed?
