Tea Partiers and Contracts

Read and meditate upon this, from the original Tea Partier, Sam Adams:

“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, not your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

–Samuel Adams, 1776


If you don't "get" people demanding limited government, personal liberty, and a return to Constitutional principles... keep meditating upon the above quote.

Tea Partiers are NOT political partisans. They are normal people who abide by contracts in their personal conduct, and simply demand that the nation live by its contract - the Constitution. It's not complicated or sinister.

Do you demand that the contracts you enter into be honored? Would you - for example - accept your mortgage company changing the terms of your contract, and simply notifying you that the new contract was a done deal, after the fact?

Of course you wouldn't. That's a ridiculous thought, and you'd have none of it!

And that's the Tea Party in a nutshell. Government is limited by its contract. "Enforce the contract!" say the Tea Partiers. "Live by what you promised, Mr. Government."

But it's more than just another contract. It's THE contract. It's the revolutionary moment in all of mankind's history when the people asserted their liberty, and put it in writing.

So... if people get upset at its violation, well, it's understandable. In fact, it's normal and healthy to be upset at the violation of contracts.

Where will this lead politically. Not sure yet. Tea Partiers are BOTH Democrats and Republicans.

That said, the Tea Party movement IS much more naturally inclined to vote Republican.

Why?

Because the Republican Party has a platform that is more closely aligned with the Constitution.

Simple as that. No nefarious scheme.

The Founding Fathers were genius. They limited the power of government by stating in writing what it could do. They then gave powers to different branches so that competing power would be another layer of "limit" on the power of government.

The ultimate limit on power? The people. It's our government.

The Tea Parties is how we're reminding Mr. Government that he works for us.

There's still a LOT of American DNA in our people. It's the hard-wiring of Americans that make us unique in the world and that attracts other Americans to emigrate here from around the globe.

That "hard wiring" lights up when it's suggested we exchange Liberty for Security. Or as Sam Adams put it so well, when we value...

...the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom.