Programmed, Categorized and Easily Referenced

I think it is important, while we rail against Obama and Pelosi and Reid and Obamacare and Stimulus Plans and Big Government as a whole, that we remember that it shouldn't be just Democrats that we rail against. Right now they hold a majority in our government and decide with an iron will the direction of our country. But November will come along, and soon we will all remember how that evil Democratic Party screwed us all and we will move to place Republicans into the government and hail them as our saviors and expect things to get better from there. Some of us will blindly agree with everything that the Republican Party does and act as apologists for that party, but many of us will realize that the regime change that is coming is in fact no regime change at all. The Republicans, should they regain control of the legislature in some way, will in many cases be just as bad or even far worse than the Democrats. Instead of large spending packages devoted to social reform, we will begin to see large spending packages for corporate and military expansion. We will see the same old farm and oil and financial subsidies, the devotion to imperialistic interventions, the subjugation of the Bill of Rights in favor of heavy-handed policy against "terrorists", both foreign and domestic.

It is my great fear, that the epic force that is the Tea Party will begin to disappear should Republicans stage a dramatic come-back this fall, and everything that we have worked so hard to do, to make this government listen to the Will of the People, will disappear as people breathe a great sigh of relief and think things will suddenly get better from there on out.

But what we should do, is have a dramatic change of our definitions on these two parties. We are not Republican or Democrat. We are not liberal or conservative. We are not Big Government or Small Government.

What in fact we are, that divides us on a philosophical, economical and social plane of existence, are INDIVIDUALISTS and COLLECTIVISTS.

We need to realize that the largest parts of both parties, both Republican and Democratic, are limbs of the same creature. They are COLLECTIVISTS. They both believe that it is okay to take money from individuals and disperse it to other groups. They both think that this action is just, somehow, and we allow them to think that. But what we need to do, this November and for years to come, is not blindly vote the bums out, for what we will intentionally do is just vote other bums in and the whole process will begin to repeat itself.

What we need to do is change our definition of who we vote out, and say that they are bums not because they are Democrats, but because they are COLLECTIVISTS and they believe that it is okay to put a group of people, or a corporation, or a whole economic industry before the individual. Who we need to vote in, are not Republicans, for many of them are in fact COLLECTIVISTS in their own way. We need to vote for INDIVIDUALISTS who believe that the single unit of a person is more important than society as a whole, that the rights of the single person are more important than the rights of an artificially-created, arbitrary group of people.

And ultimately, Tea Partiers must realize that the Tea Party itself is not a group, is not a political party and should never be one. They must realize that they are simply INDIVIDUALS who are campaigning for the same thing and that is the recognition of their own individual rights over some unified idea that the Tea Party has become. We must not become shills of a political party. We must not become a political party unto ourselves. We should take heart in the fact that both parties are scared of us and that is because we refuse to be programmed, categorized, and easily referenced into a larger group that they can begin to quantify and manipulate.

That wont mean they wont try to categorize us. We are already racists and rich, white people, and crazy domestic terrorists. But ultimately we must fight back, and every chance we get we must assert that we are INDIVIDUALS.

So please, come November, and even (more importantly) before that as you run to the voting booths during primaries, don't blindly flick that switch for your simple run-of-the-mill Republican just because he isn't a Democrat. Flick the switch for someone who is an INDIVIDUALIST because he isn't a COLLECTIVIST.