a bottomless pit

When is it too late or too far to fall off of a cliff that if one fell from the edge the drop to a bottomless pit would be life ending and disastrous?

When does a philosophy, a concept, run out of reason only to begin to nag at fallacy and failure, sucking energy from its root, allowing its unmanageable tentacles to call the shots?

When does a grass root movement turn into revolutionary war? When does cause turn into chaos? And when does altruism turn into anarchy?

When does the evil nature of a movement rust through the marketed, flag wrapped, finger pointing façade and erupt into the faces of those who laugh, and mock it; thinking it (the Movement), will just envelop itself and disappear?

We are told by many a Republican politician and their ultra conservative pundits that the Tea Party Movement is dominated by God fearing, America loving, big government hating true blue citizens. We are told by many a Republican politician and their FOX News phonies that the Tea Party Movement represents the average American, the American who is afraid of liberal carefree liaise- faire actions. We are told that emotion and enthusiasm trump fact or knowledge; that if you care deeply enough you will rid yourself of the rules and rule your own destiny.

At the first ever Tea Party Convention, we were witness to a movement dominated by people whose vision of the government is conspiratorial and dangerously detached from reality.

At the first ever Tea Party Convention we heard the half term, FOX political analyst, ethics plagued, “mavericky” marvel, Sarah Palin point out how much of a socialist Obama is because he wants to take care of millions of Americans with jobs, and health care and education. Her highness, point fingers at others, never at myself (Palin) was joined by other convention speakers who not only accused Obama (never using the word President), of being a socialist in America, but as Steve Malloy, an author disputing any Climate Change or Global Warming, said “…Obama isn’t a U.S. socialist…he’s an international socialist…he envisions a one-world government…run by the U.N. (from all places) Manhattan…”

At the first ever Tea Party Convention we heard the keynote address delivered by Tom Tancredo, an ex Congressman from Colorado, and a former presidential candidate for the Republican nomination, who suggested that “ Barack Hussein Obama was elected partly because “we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote…” (disputing the end of Jim Crow Laws which prohibited literacy or poll taxes to be a judge of an American citizens right to vote, which primarily was enacted in the South after the Civil War defeat of the Confederacy to keep the ex slaves from gaining any power or equality in this country.) Mr. “Racist” Tancredo continued his message of hate by adding, “…Or [ elected] by people who could not even spell ‘vote’ or say it in English…these people put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House…” (To be true racist, you need not only hate the Blacks but any other color other than white or sun tanned whites.) And Mr. Tancredo received three, count ‘em three standing ovations, thumbs up from Palin and not a word of caution or conscience from any leading “main stream Republican elected official.

At the first ever Tea Party Convention a few other themes were iterated by speakers chosen because they were not liberal, nor Democrat, nor black, BUT true Americans. Less Government: The Tea Party delegates do not want socialism to come to this country, and any time the Government intervenes for the good of the people it is really to control the good people. Best Practices: What the Tea Party will provide is honest and fair practices. Never mind when facts are left out of an equation, or changing the answer to the question if the real answer does not suit the situation. Character: If you hate those certain anti –American people, (minorities, liberals, Ivy league educated, homosexuals, Muslims recipients of entitlement programs like pre school readiness, social security, Medicare) because they seem to be different than your norm, thus having no character. (Conservative politicians have character because they live by a Christian ethic, which after all is what this Christian country was founded on.) For the Children: What we do is never for our own selfishness, it is never to benefit our greed or gluttony , feed our bigotries our bias’s, nope it is for the next generation, you know the ones we raise to be just as hypocritical and hate filled as us.

When do we actually take seriously a movement that emulates the John Birch Society, the Ku Klux Klan, the Secessionists, the Brown Shirts of Germany, the McCarthy Era “Red Scare” Pious, and realize lack of motion, lack of voice, and lack of backbone permits the bully to win? When do we stop laughing and realize paranoid, self loathing, self victimizing individuals are intimidating gutless politicians and black mailing potential candidates into thinking “we know who you are and we will make sure you fail.”

When do we begin to call out the spineless, moral -less, unethical politicians who luxuriate in hate, deceit, and fear and those who refuse to speak the truth but scream the lies?

When do we stop allowing others to take us to the cliff and find that there is no turning back when the next step is only to fall into the abyss? When do we say enough is enough? When?