Again tea?
Already in the upcoming elections, he has all the chances for many years to become the dominant political idea in the United States (not to be confused with the radical movement of the American left - by the activists of "Capture Wall Street!")
The resistance movement arose in protest against the rampant sprawl of the state, invading all spheres of society, against the unheard of growth in government spending and the swelling of government debt, which threatened America with financial collapse. But its authentic springs lie even deeper. Some Americans intellectually understood where the plans of the liberal rulers of the country were going, others felt it instinctively, but people realized that if they keep silent and endure this time, America as a traditional bulwark of economic and political freedom will disappear from the face of the earth. The instinct of self-preservation worked, the people rose up to fight for the salvation of their country.
19 February 2009, CNBC's financial correspondent Rick Santelli, on the air from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, broke down and, to everyone’s (and probably his own) amazement, raged angrily at the new administration. Under the enthusiastic applause of brokers, Santelli inflamed on points defeated Obama's economic policy and, as a final chord, called on the people for a new “tea-drinking”. He urged the stockbrokers to drown together derivative mortgage papers in the Chicago River, just as the valiant ancestors in 1773 drowned a batch of tea from the metropolis in Boston Bay. Thus, they expressed dissatisfaction with the Tea Law of the British Parliament, which approved the East India Company’s monopoly on the supply of an invigorating drink to all the colonies. This symbolic gesture, called the Boston Tea Party, was the first salvo of the revolution, which ultimately led to the collapse of British domination in the New World and to the appearance on the world map of a new American state.
Demarche Santelli got on Youtube and after a day turned into a nationwide hit by the number of views. The incredible thing happened: just as the “Boston Tea Party” of the 18th century triggered a full-scale war of the North American colonies for independence, the playful joke of the journalist prompted the broad sections of the population to long-forgotten actions: the nation united for direct action!
Everywhere from the ocean to the ocean began to emerge groups of supporters of the Tea Party - the Boston Tea Party, which has become a revived symbol of the idea of civil disobedience. Note that the political establishment almost immediately tried to reduce the degree of protest and reduce the Tea Party movement to purely economic protest: 250 years ago, Boston merchants were not satisfied with taxation in favor of the British monopoly, and today, they say, wealthy segments of the population are dissatisfied with Obama’s paying mortgage loans loafers from the state treasury.
Naive illusion! The tea monopoly of the East India Company merely symbolized the hated power of the British monopoly, just as the Obama subsidy policy merely symbolizes the separation of the modern Government from its People.
At the congressional elections in 2010, the pre-election thesis of the tea-drinking movement was simple - “stop the changes begun by the democrats.” The resounding victory of the Republicans in this election is the election of Rand Paul, an extremely conservative politician, one of the leaders of the Tea Party Movement, as a senator from Kentucky. Rand Paul escaped his inaugural address with a manifesto: “We came to bring the government back under our control. Not the state, but entrepreneurs create jobs. America has achieved exceptional prosperity because we believe in freedom, which is the sacred principle of our society. "
Movement structure
In November, 2009 in the United States struck thunder - in the gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, Republicans Bill MacDonald and Chris Christie won a landslide victory. Well, Virginia is still far away - it’s still a traditionally conservative state (with the exception of the liberal northern districts adjacent to the capital Washington), and Obama’s victory in it was a kind of surprise. But in order for New Jersey, the most liberal New Jersey, to give preference to a Republican, that was already a scandal. The climax came in January 2010: in the recognized stronghold of Massachusetts liberalism, which is not just called the "people's democratic republic", Republican Scott Brown was elected to the Senate in the place of Edward Kennedy, who had died in the Bose of "lion liberalism" Edward Kennedy. Then there was nowhere to go. In all three Republican victories, the Tea Party played a decisive role.
American democracy is distinguished from its European species of species by one key feature: in Europe, elective posts are filled by party lists, voters are given the choice only between candidates of official parties. In America, the electoral field is open to everyone: collected the necessary (relatively small) number of signatures under the petition for his candidacy, made a registration fee (fairly modest) - and run for health. This and used the "Tea Party".
Already in 2010, scattered organizations became a serious force that proved its capabilities in the parliamentary elections. At first, these were small groups of demonstrators who intuitively did not trust the federal government, which in a “directive format” solved the most important problems of the country.
- Tea Party Patriots - 1 000 branches throughout the country
- Americans For Prosperity - 500 Affiliates, One Million Supporters
- FreedomWorks: 500 affiliates, one million members.
- Tea Party Nation
- National Tea Party Federation
- The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition.
- Tea Party Express.
Although the Tea Party movement has an ambiguous name (Tea Party), the movement has nothing to do with any “parties”. The movement initially demonstrated aversion and rejection of the existing political authorities and structures. In October, the Washington Post newspaper conducted an 2010 survey of local tea-party activists, trying to find out “which national public figures best represent the interests of the group,” and got an unexpected result - 647% of respondents answered: “None” (Sarah Palin received 34% support, Glen Beck - 14%, Ron Paul - 7%, and Michelle Bachmann 6%)
The absence of a unifying structure, political non-affiliation and ideological non-conformism - these are the three whales on which the Tea Party is based. These same circumstances explain the fears and rumors with which left-wing liberals fill the public mind: they say tea bags (Teabaggers are a contemptuous and offensive nickname for supporters of the Tea Party movement popular in democratic circles) completely racists, nationalists and homophobes.
Michelle Bachmann
US Congressional Tea Party Caucus
established and led the Congressman of the House of Representatives Michelle Bachmann.
Michelle's own admission, after reading in the pink youth historical the saga "Barr" of the fierce fighter for the sexual freedom of the nation of the democrat, Horus Vidal, she somehow immediately and finally realized that she was not in the way with the democrats.
Since then, Michelle Bachmann has confidently evolved into one of the most consistent and principled fighters for healthy isolationism in foreign policy, Christian values in education, a return to incandescent bulbs
(because the fashionable energy-saving fluorescent lamps, ordered by the US government officials, the amount of mercury vapor exceeds the limit), as well as against abortion, same-sex marriage, global warming fraud, bank sanitation at the expense of taxpayers (TARP - Troubled Asset Relief Program - state program assistance to major US financial institutions) and ObamaCare - presidential health care reform.
Ron Paul
"The intellectual godfather of" Tea Party "is considered Republican Ron Paul, the author of the Campaign For Liberty Charter, which not only unconditionally shared by supporters of the Tea Party movement, but also, I hope, all sensible people of America:
- together with the Founding Fathers, we believe in a non-interventionist foreign policy ... We are convinced that the American people cannot remain free and prosper, keeping 700 military bases around the world, military units in 130 countries and staying on a constant diet of military propaganda.
- we believe that a free market, slandered by people who do not understand anything in it, is the fairest and most humane economic system, as well as the most effective prosperity engine known in history.
- together with Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hoeslitt and F. A. Hayek, we believe that the Central Bank distorts economic policy and inclines entrepreneurs to unhealthy investments. Hayek received a Nobel Prize for demonstrating how central bank intervention in lending rates entails economic downturns. The ability of the Central Bank to create money from the air redistributes wealth from the most vulnerable to the politically influential, since it is the latter that receive new money before prices rise as a result of the new issue. For economic and moral reasons, we join the prominent economists of the 20th century in opposing the Federal Reserve System, which has devalued the dollar by 95% since its inception in the 1913 year.
“We oppose the inhuman practice of resolving all issues at the federal level and imposing these decisions on American society, whether through judges, power hungry officials, or the intervention of Congress.” We believe in a humane alternative to local self-government, which is called for by our Constitution.
- we oppose the transfer of American sovereignty to supranational organizations in which the American people do not have elected representatives ... Most of these organizations have terrifying indicators even by their own standards: for example, what progress have the World Bank and the IMF achieved in eliminating poverty? The peoples of the planet can interact perfectly without the intervention of bureaucratic intermediaries who downplay our sovereignty.
- we believe in the indivisible essence of freedom, which, in addition to economic liberties, also includes civil liberty and the right to privacy, which our civilization has enjoyed since time immemorial.
And where in these provisions is racism, nationalism, homophobia and rejection of immigration? Rejection of the New World Order is. There is contempt for the institutions of old European money. The priority of the real economy and business over the virtual money and financial capital of the usurers-percentages is also there. I would venture to suggest that sensible Americans see the same thing, who have not exchanged the minting of historical ideals for the molasses of political correctness.
Dick armi
The supporters of the Tea Party movement are persistently spreading rumors about the man-made nature of the movement in the style of astrhot, which has been turned either by cunning Republican politicians, or no less cunning business libertarians.
(Astrotorf - initially: artificial grass for sports fields and stadiums. In political and business astrophorf is called paid public campaigns, camouflaged under the spontaneous popular expression of the will.) So says economist Paul Krugman: The Tea Party Movement is not a spontaneous manifestation of public discontent. This astrotrophe, invented by all famous people. In particular, the key role in all this is played by FreedomWorks, an organization managed by Richard Army. ”
Republican Dick Armey, became famous for having turned the Republican Revolution in 90's, as a result of which the Elephant Party gained control in both houses of Congress. The logic of Paul Krugman is transparent: after the transfer of power to the democrats in the presidential election of 2008, God ordered Dick Armee to attend to the next revival of the republican idea in society. So he and "zastrotorfil" another dummy - the movement "Tea Party".
David Koch
The idea of political astrhoport developed the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, making an adjustment to the vector of conspiracy theories: “This is not a grassroots movement. A real astrotorf launched by the richest people of America for the sake of reducing taxes only for the rich, not for the broad middle class. ” Pelosi obviously hints at the creator of Americans For Prosperity, the richest American businessman David Koch. The last half-century of Kohi has worked indefatigably in the field of fierce anti-communism, and then promoting the ideas of a no less fierce right-wing liberalism.
The owner of the private giant Koch Industries on the ideological front of America today occupies the unenviable place of the main enemies of progress and democracy. At least, in the form in which these vague terms are understood by the left wing of the Democrats, led by their leader, the current President Barack Obama. The concentration of deadly sins accused of Koch makes a deep impression. It turns out he:
- against health care reform,
- against the reform of Wall Street through the Dodd-Frank Act,
- against the law on consumer protection;
- against the foreign political adventures of America,
- against tax increase,
- against the UN and the participation of the United States,
- against the Federal Reserve,
- against the social security system,
- against the limitation of the minimum wage,
- against all forms of state support for private business,
- against agricultural subsidies,
- against the whole string of government intermediaries, starting with the Securities and Exchange Commission and ending with - it is terrible to say - the CIA and the FBI,
- against the ban on wearing weapons,
- against any form of state intervention in the private life of citizens
- and even against the 2001 Patriotism Act of the Year!
As of 2007, Forbes called Koch Industries the largest privately held company (family business) in the US (after Cargill). If Koch Industries were a public company, it would correspond approximately to 16 to the place of the Fortune 500 rating.
David Koch, along with his brother, controls each 42% in it. One can understand the anxiety of the democratic White House and the noisy alarm at which the left-liberal press of America beats together. After all, Kohs not only openly declare their opposition to Obama, but also vigorously interfere in politics. In addition to the huge million-dollar injections into the Republican party at elections of all levels, the malicious brothers through dozens and hundreds of dummy structures finance the main potential gravedigger of the New World Order in the USA - the Tea Drinking Movement (in particular, Americans For Prosperity).
Here’s how Koch Industries’s success explains David Koch: “You’re probably wondering where David Koch has so much money, since he can make such generous donations? I will tell you a story. It all started when I was a little boy. One day my father gave me an apple. I took it and sold it for five dollars. Then he bought two apples and sold them for 10 dollars. Then he bought four apples and sold it for 20. And day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, I sold and bought apples until my father died and left me three hundred million dollars! ”
When such “monsters” (or, if you will, titans) frolic right next to you, and we do not even know about their existence ... this is something
Some conclusions.
In his famous book, Democracy in America, published in 1835, prominent French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville emphasized the remarkable initiative of the Americans and their unique ability to organize themselves. The events of the last one and a half years have confirmed that the American spirit, noticed by a sharp-eyed Frenchman almost two centuries ago, has not gone away, but just before that time lived in vain. In order to bring it to life, a strong enough stimulus was needed, an effective enough stimulus. Barack Obama was such a stimulus.
Despite participation in the Tea Party movement of a large number of republican politicians and right-wing businessmen in no way abolishes the rules of formal logic: a part of a thing is not the thing itself, nor is this thing equal to the totality of its parts. As a social phenomenon, "Tea Party" is much broader and more universal, and Dick Armey, and David Koch, and even Michelle Bachmann.
Based on the above, you can adjust the perception priorities: it was not the Republican party that created the Tea Party movement, but Tea Party provided the aging Elephant Party that is aging and rapidly losing prestige, a unique chance to update the ideology and replenish the ranks with new supporters. The “Tea Party” elected the Republican Party as its “home”. However, the populists did not show the slightest inclination to go on about the republican center - they did not hide the fact that they were trying to transform the Republican Party from the inside and make it a true bearer of conservative ideals. For example, during the primaries of 2010 in several states, voters under the influence of the “Tea Party” rejected the candidates of the republican establishment and replaced them with their own, much more conservative elects. In the 2010-2012 Congress, the envoys of the Tea Party made up a strong and energetic core, which largely sets the tone for the Republican faction.
Republicans did not miss their chance, but what about the Democrats? Democrats in relation to "Tea Party" have shown surprising short-sightedness, despite fair comments regarding Obama's reforms.
The short-sightedness of the Democrats is all the more surprising that the Tea Party movement, not only in its particular manifestations, but also at the level of ideology, looks quite ordinary in US history. Apart from the Boston Tea Party itself, protests of the population, based on common sense and the instinct of self-preservation, arose with enviable regularity. In the 19th century, among others, activists from the Know Nothing group thundered, advocating for a legislative restriction on the entry of Catholic immigrants from Germany and Ireland into the country, who were supposedly potential spies for the Pope, who were threatening Anglo-Saxon morality. In the twentieth century, the now living John Birch Society (John Birch Society) is immediately remembered, bringing together fighters against communism with supporters of limited rule, a truly constitutional republic, and the inviolability of personal freedoms.
Legend has it that after a triumphant attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, exuberant glee reigned on the ships of the Japanese squadron. Only commander fleet, the architect of the brilliant operation, Admiral Yamamoto was immersed in gloomy meditation. To the question of the adjutant why he is not happy with everyone, Yamamoto sadly said: "I'm afraid we just woke the sleeping giant and instilled indomitable fury in him." After their decisive victory in the 2008 elections, the progressives, led by Barack Obama, made a fatal mistake: they woke the sleeping giant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Президентские_выборы_в_США_(2012)
http://www.business-magazine.ru/mech_new/experience/pub340368/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-02/koch-brothers-flout-law-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEZB4taSEoA
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