The Tea Party Is really about four things Fear, Anger, Power, and Change

The Tea Party is really about four things:
Fear, Anger, Power and Change

Sean Lewis
April 16, 2010

The Issue of Tea Party discontent currently in America and
the political discussion is about the emotions associated
with the shifting demographics of the US Population.

It is not about race per se, but about Power.

The demographic of the US population is becoming one of
diversity and color.

The 2008 Elections emphasized this. The status quo has
changed. It is this change that has created the anger and
fear of the far right conservatives of this Country.

Power is shifting away from the old guard and is being given
to the next generation. A Generation that is better educated,
informed, diverse and open to embrace change.

For Generations America was a Country with clear
understanding of who had the power and who did not. The
Constitution clearly stated this, White Male Land owners
Not the poor
Not Non Whites
Not Woman

White Male Land Owners had control of the Country and
made the decisions. This legacy and entitlement was understood
to be the way things worked, regardless of what the Amendments
to the Constitution stated. This has changed.

The Country has clearly rejected the status quo and this is
personified by the election of a President who is for the leveling
of the playing field for all forcing the rich to be responsible and
accountable. The President also happens to be Black.

This one fact, A Black President makes the Change in Power
very apparent and the old guard of 'Entitled' white conservatives
are angry they did not get their way and have their candidate
elected, they are now in fear that if this president is successful
there is no turning back the clock,

No one likes to give up power, whether that power is real or
imagined, and many in the fringe have harbored xenophobic and
homophobic fears but felt societal pressure not to express these
bigoted ideas.

The tea bag movement has given a 'legitimate' outlet for this fear
and also anger at the lost of financial security the near Depression
has created. The old Guard is unwilling to accept the
changes needed to accept the new political environment or to adapt
to the changing economic and employment environment.

Tea baggers know they are becoming the minority, and that the
electoral process is no longer in their favor, so the Tea baggers
are trying to go outside of the Election process to turn back the
clock to how things were, even if it means they will have to use
violence to accomplish this goal.

We are seeing a major turning point in America, it is truly
becoming a melting pot, and all change is met with fear and anger
as power is shifted away from one group to another.

How this ends is dependent on if the fires stoking hate, fear,
rhetorical violence, and open dissent against Government authority,
are allowed to go uncontested or challenged. Having lively political
debate is the American way, however inciting revolution is not. This
is NOT an American colony suffering from no representation, this is
the minority not accepting majority rule.

Republicans Are In Trouble, with their backs against the wall

Republicans are in trouble with their backs against the wall

Sean Lewis
January 28. 2010

The man behind the curtain has been exposed
and America does not like what it sees.

The Republican party is the cause of America's problems.

President Obama has shown the American people how
the Republican party is obstructing progress in a time of emergency.

Typically the Minority party out of power is about making
sure the minority position has a seat at the table and'
is heard.

This however this does not mean the minority party prevents
the will of the majority of the people who voted in representatives
of the majority party to carry out the will of the Majority of
America.

This however has been the goal of the Republican party,
the ONLY goal. To prevent any legislation of the majority
party to become law.

This is morally reprehensable when two significant facts are
included.

One the country is in the middle of massive crisis.
Two the Crisis is a direct result of Republican policy.

The very people who created the problem are preventing
others from fixing their mistakes.

Why are the Republicans doing this? For strictly political reasons,
this is about party first, not country.

If the Democrats fix the Republican crisis, the Republicans
will fall even further from favor. This will also prove that
republican policy is the wrong flawed policy for America to follow.

So Republicans have decided the Democrats must fail so that
the Republican party stays viable. So what if the country goes
down in flames in the process.

This is the same short sighted philosophy the Republicans governed
the Country by for 8 years, the result was almost complete
economic collapse.

Add to this that in an attempt to revitalize their party, the GOP
embraced a rabid Tiger by the tail.

A loose coalition of far right fringe movements.
Teabaggers
Birthers
Oathers
Minute men
2nd ammenders
and anti government militias.

The GOP thought they could tame these fringe elements
the way they tamed the Right to lifers and Religious Right.

The GOP is currently getting a rude awakening, these
groups have no allegiance or loyalty to any politician
who violates even one of their tenants. Worst, to obey ALL
of the Tenants of these Fringers the GOP must abandon their
long standing platforms that kept them acceptable to
Main Stream Moderate America.

The GOP now finds itself with two options.

Abandon the Fringe and pass legislation the majority
of America wants, and as a party no longer be a force
of political power because their old policies will be
proven not to work.

Embrace the Fringe and in affect become everything
America opposes,an intolerant, intractable, radical
xenophobic movement.

As I said in the beginning the Republicans are in trouble
with their backs against the wall.