WOULDN’T it be splendid if the solutions to America’s problems could be written down in a slim book no bigger than a passport that you could slip into your breast pocket? That, more or less, is the big idea of the tea-party movement, the grassroots mutiny against big government that has mounted an internal takeover of the Republican Party and changed the face of American politics. Listen to Michele Bachmann, a congresswoman from Minnesota and tea-party heroine, as she addressed the conservative Value Voters’ Summit in Washington, DC, last week:
To those who would spread lies, and to those who would spread falsehoods and rumours about the tea-party movement, let me be very clear to them. If you are scared of the tea-party movement, you are afraid of Thomas Jefferson who penned our mission statement, and, by the way, you may have heard of it, it’s called the Declaration of Independence. [Cheers, applause.] So what are these revolutionary ideas that make up and undergird the tea-party movement? Well, it’s this: All men and all women are created equal. We are endowed by our creator—that’s God, not government [applause]—with certain inalienable rights…
The Declaration of Independence and the constitution have been venerated for two centuries. But thanks to the tea-party movement they are enjoying a dramatic revival. . . . . When history is turned into scripture and men into deities, truth is the victim. The framers were giants, visionaries and polymaths. But they were also aristocrats, creatures of their time fearful of what they considered the excessive democracy taking hold in the states in the 1780s. They did not believe that poor men, or any women, let alone slaves, should have the vote. Many of their decisions, such as giving every state two senators regardless of population, were the product not of Olympian sagacity but of grubby power-struggles and compromises—exactly the sort of backroom dealmaking, in fact, in which today’s Congress excels and which is now so much out of favour with the tea-partiers. . . . . But this is a case that needs to be made and from first principles in every political generation . . . . . Jefferson [did not] write a mission statement for the tea- partiers. They are going to have to write one for themselves. . . . . . . . . READ THE FULL RIDICULOUS ARTICLE >>>>Editor's notes: what we have in the above is the writings of a man who who has rejected the past and replaced it with the past. Someone once said, "There is nothing new under the sun." That is not more true than in this rhetorical circumstance. The author of the article above chose to remain anonymous, no doubt an effort to insure the viability of his business endeavors. He puts forth the notion, after it is all said and done, that "constitutional solutions" are not wrong so much as they are worthless, considering the needs and problems of modern times. Implicit in the article is the myth that the Constitution is of no consequence in today's political economy. And what does the unknown author suggest as a replacement? Where is that in the article? Where is a HINT of an answer to that question in the article ?
We know the answer . . . . . . . . . some form of tyranny/Marxism/oneworldism. His solution is to replace the past with . . . . . . . . . the past. How do we know? Because there are no other alternatives. It is either a governance of the people, by the people and for the people or it is a governance of some form of top-down dictatorial control. "Either or" is the only choice because "either or" is the only reality. Notice that we did not say "the only two realities." Federalism/socialism is a dialectic that pits one against the other in a single reality. The history of our nation is one that expresses this continuing controversy. From the very beginning, the Founders were divided on the matter. The Constitution was, in part, written as a solution to this controversy. Our history reflects this very controversy.
The opinion of the writer, above, ignores the continuing controversy and pretends that the Constitution is a political reality, in and of itself, that the poor, the slave, the unnamed working class is a part of another reality, one not considered by the Founders.
The truth of the matter is this: within the Constitution, we have small government expressed in the 10th Amendment set in working contrast to "big government." BOTH are part of the Constitutional equation.
Mr. "economist" never gets to the solution. He is only concerned with his view of the "myth" and in that fact, he is more than wrong, he is dishonest with regard to his ultimate intentions for this country and YOUR personal freedoms. Throw out the Constitution and replace it with what?
We maintain that the American past works as a political/economic reality, that tyranny in whatever form, does not work..
Take it to the bank and join the new American revolution.
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