The Tea Party Tries to Save Face by Blaming Republicans

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The Tea Party seeks way to save face after reports of poor behavior acted out towards African American Congressmen. The approach of the patriots all is to blame the Republican Party as their reason for being present to protest when events are reported to have taken place.

The Tea party has left the building and the protest grounds but not before parlaying a reinterpretation of the original intent of the founders in the core values statement. This line appears in the second core value of the Tea Party Movement. It says, "We believe that it is possible to know the original intent of the government our founders set forth, and stand in support of that intent."

This is the same perspective point of view offered by right wing conservative Christians. They believe they know the original intent of the writers of the Bible as the absolute perspective will of the divine. For the record, both are documents providing direction for people as a point of beginning, not a point of end.

To stand on the notion of establishing current perspective political approach on the strength of perceiving the founders original intention's capacity to know contemporary conditions requiring response is both naïve and immature at the least and evil at the worst.

It is both naïve and immature to think a set of standards for the late 17^th Century would be adequate to serve the needs of the 21^st Century. The founders' world was homogeneous except for the people of color that served them. The New World status quo was the founder's original intent. Establish a nation, they did and are deserving of appropriate respect. The status quo as the founders knew it no longer exists except within the minds of persons who wish to turn back the clock to a day gone by for which they never lived.

The perspective of the Tea Party becomes evil when correlated to the nation the founders developed and built on the backs of kidnapped African people and the devastated indigenous peoples of North America. African people were stolen, sold, bought, and re - sold to facilitate the building of the New World, the new dwelling place of the founders.

Believing original intent can be known is a retreat for individuals and groups that cannot face the horror of thinking and working together with the different other Americans not in on the deal laid out by original intent. Whose tea and whose party is it anyway? The parlaying of a reinterpretation original intent will not be allowed to whitewash history. America has socially and politically evolved. Our lady and her people are better than that.

The Tea Party is a group of perhaps well meaning people living in the past. Living in the past always gets people left behind. The New World Order is not some intangible out there somewhere reality. The American Constituency is the New World Order. It is in the interest of people bearing the image of traditional power to learn how to start making new friends of the different others to kill off some old memory.

The Tea Party has left the building, the protest grounds, and will take a break now. They will be back clothed in another hysterical historical garment organization purporting patriotism in the 17^th Century Context to regain privilege of days past.

The future is no longer coming. The future is now and it is inclusive of the contemporary people of the United States of America.

Whose tea and whose party is it anyway? The tea belongs to all the people of contemporary America, whether the founders' intent, or not.