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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Cool. I just tend to get my back up when someone starts blaming the other side for everything. I think it started when I read the 1800 newspaper headline promoting John Adams for re-election: " If Jefferson is elected, murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes."
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Nice touch! If you haven't watched the series on John Adams, I'd highly recommend you do so. Washington didn't believe in political parties, and Adams was a Federalist. I don't have a party designation, but I do kind of consider myself a new-age Federalist.
It's not so much me blaming the 'other side' as I'm neither Democrat or Republican, it's moreso me blaming the status quo. I can relate and respect the Tea Party movement because they're standing up to and directly challenging the status quo, and that's a refreshing concept to see in this day and age.
People disparage these folks because it's almost like they're stunned that people would have the audacity to run against them. In the last couple of cycles, several 'establishment' candidates got bumped out office. I firmly believe in term limits and respect the constitution.
However, the Tea Party gets absolutely blasted at every turn by folks from both sides of the aisle. Labels such as 'crazy' or 'racist'....just silly and unfounded attacks. Why does the establishment attack them? Because they fear the Tea Party. The Tea Party champions truly placing the power back with the individual, and to the establishment, that's dangerous.
If you watched Obama's SOTU speech, basically it was a couple name drops here and there to help with the mid term elections, and the rest of was talking about how he's not getting his way so he'll find a way to get things done whether anybody likes it or not. Case in point, this president is the most dangerous, overreaching ideologue this country has seen in generations. I firmly believe he didn't even want to be president, but was coaxed into it by the powers-at-be after his keynote address at the 2004 DNC because he'd be the perfect tool to further a social agenda that's been on the mind of many egalitarians in this country for a long time.
And I firmly believe that he is doing just that, and because of that, we all are in trouble. Then we have Hillary and Elizabeth Warren potentially running in the next election....I'm genuinely fearful of the road this country is going down. 9/11 was the turning point in this nation's history, and it's all downhill from here.