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2010-03-17 Home Front: Culture Wars

The Tea Party is a restorationist movement

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Posted by Mike 2010-03-17 08:51|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The Tea Party movement is a grass roots movement made up of Republicans, discontented Democrats, Libertarians, and independents. There are other groups that fall ideolgically within this rapidly growing movement. These folks do not want the hard-left, big-spending, central control-oriented direction of the current administration.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-03-17 09:21|| 2010-03-17 09:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Restoration, in this case, should be equated with "error correction", which can be categorized into groups:

1) Original error. Inherent flaws in the constitution, which have long been known.

2) Executive errors. The POTUS and VPOTUS need to be limited to acting only through senate approved cabinet officers, who can themselves be impeached. No "Czars", very limited recess appointments, memorandums or signing statements. No more takings of State lands by presidential whim.

3) Legislative errors. Mostly the 16th and 17th Amendments, the over-extrapolation of the 14th Amendment, the Interstate Commerce and General Welfare Clauses, and the delegation of authority to the bureaucracy.

4) Judicial errors. Legal precedents that have taken on a life of their own, far beyond their original intent, such as corporate civil rights, over-broad appellate authority, forced State appropriation of money and the use of special masters. Both civil and criminal legal reform, as well as structural reform of the judiciary.

5) Treaty abrogation, where such treaties violate US sovereignty.

6) Incorporation of such amendments that are needed to establish ideas now only in law, such as a War Powers and Posse Comitatus Acts.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-03-17 09:30|| 2010-03-17 09:30|| Front Page Top

#3 One view of the original American Revolution is that the objective at the beginning was a return to the autonomous colonies status [benign neglect] they enjoyed prior to the Seven Years War/French and Indian War. It was the actions of the government in London to impose authority and rule over the colonies after that war that created the agitations that lead to the conflict.

What that set in motion is something we face today. One little small phrase 'all men are created equal' would ensure that no stability will ever happen and that chaos would be a reoccurring aspect of the American Democracy. Nature is hierarchical and territorial. The American concept flies in face of nature. It is the mutant form of social organization compared to the vast majority of others. There is no acceptance of a 'natural' set of governed and governing in the culture. When the society and system slide towards the natural side there is a reaction to it. There is a throwing out of the old order who've become comfortable and smug in thinking themselves the natural governing by deed, word, or actions. Most Americans want to be left alone to do their own thing, raise a family, or get on in life. They generally don't want to be part of a political process. However, every now and then the people who do engage in public business get too powerful, too overreaching, too corrupt, they awaken that population who say 'enough is enough'. We are not ruled. There is no consent. This is one of those times. They will be interesting times.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-03-17 10:03|| 2010-03-17 10:03|| Front Page Top

#4 However, every now and then the people who do engage in public business get too powerful, too overreaching, too corrupt, they awaken that population who say 'enough is enough'. We are not ruled. There is no consent. This is one of those times. They will be interesting times.

Yup and indeed!

Posted by JohnQC 2010-03-17 10:13|| 2010-03-17 10:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Obama and his ilk are not progressives, they are collectivists.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-03-17 10:17|| 2010-03-17 10:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Communism, fascism, and socialism may all be termed collectivist systems in contrast to individualism.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-03-17 10:33|| 2010-03-17 10:33|| Front Page Top

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