The Tea Party and the Tsunami
There is a danger of making the Tea Party bigger than it is and a greater danger of belittling the swelling Conservative Tsunami by trying to define it with the Tea Party’s Mission and Core Values. The latter is only a small part of the former. Confusing the focus of one and the power of the other diminishes the meaning and value of both. A fine discussion happened at “FR”. It turns out we can have both, for all the RIGHT reasons. Worth the time for thought and worth the effort of thinking about it.
From A discussion on the Free Republic:
Comment on Free Republic: You CAN NOT separate social from economical. It is not humanly possible. You can NOT pretend to ignore the crucial, fundamental principles of the Constitution that made this country the best ever and possible for free enterprise. Natural Rights should be the core, because without it, your freedom can NOT exist.
The Patriot’s Flag Response: If I want to deal with social issues, I look to platforms OUTSIDE the Tea Party. The Tea Party is for Fiscal Responsibility and Taxes. That’s where it came from, that is what its mission and core values are about and that is why it was named after the original “Tea Party.” As I said to another poster …If we start including gay rights, abortion, Christianity, and everything else, and try to stuff it into the Tea Party,the result something that looks like the old Democrat Rainbow Coalition.
The COMING of the CONSERVATIVE TSUNAMI.
The Tea Party is only a small PART OF the Conservative Tsunami wave that is forming. It is coming tidal wave with tremendous power that is about to make some major changes on the political landscape. That wave is made up of many groups. Some focus on Anti-Gay, Pro-M/F Marriage, Anti-abortion, Pro-Christianity, Anti-Mosque etc etc etc … and among the “etcs” is the Tea Party, focusing on Fiscal Responsibility. It is a PART of the wave, part of something bigger, but IT IS NOT that bigger thing.
The Restoring Honor Rally: We must not confuse the limited Tea Party’s mission with another far greater mission of a far larger phenomenon. Whatever the heck Glenn Beck did last week “is” that phenomenon. It doesn’t need signs, it doesn’t need rabble-rousing political speeches, it transcends race and even religious differences. It is beyond that, it is bigger than that and it is the God-driven values fueling the power.
This special thing that is happening is not what the Tea Party is, but the Tea Party certainly is a PART of greater wave. As individuals, we can join the “wave” in several ways. The 40 days is one, the Black Robe Regiment another, The Anti-Mosque group or the Anti-abortion group … AND, among those the Tea Party, (the fiscal responsibility group).
In these many groups making up the Conservative Tsunami, all of the Christian and Social values you are discussing and say MUST be there … they are there. The best example is the 8-28 Rally last Saturday. You were looking at the wave … within it were all of the things you say must exist, and in it were Tea Party people … just a smaller (fiscally responsibility driven) group among all the groups there. We don’t want to make the Tea Party into something is not, NOR do we want to belittle the Tsunami rising up (stuffing it into a very limited Tea Party Mission Statement).
Most people still do not realize what is happening or understand the significance the swell rising up beneath the waves. However for some, when we step back and understand what we are seeing it becomes clear and we notice something …
The Bush is afire with the glory of God, but only he who sees takes off his shoes.
And looking around, not everyone is barefoot … YET!
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