It looks like my claim that much of the Tea Party movement is a reaction to the decline of the American Empire and Dream is picking up support. Richard Gwyn of the Toronto Star has said as much in a recent editorial. He claimed that The core of the change of life America is undergoing [...]
Archive for November, 2010
Tea Party Nation – A Gated Intellectual Community
Posted: November 20, 2010 in Culture and movies, Iraq War, Obama, Power, Tea Party, U.S. Politics, UncategorizedLast week, Ahmed Ghailani was convicted in federal court to 20 years to life for the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He was acquitted of 280 other charges that included one murder count for each of the 224 people who died. Republicans and Tea Partiers were quick to pounce on [...]
Tea Party as a Secular-Religious Response to Uncertainty
Posted: November 10, 2010 in Culture and movies, Obama, Race, Tea Party, U.S. PoliticsAll of the commentary, including my own, on why there is a Tea Party movement may have missed the most important reason. Man turns to religion to explain the calamities and hardships that often befall humans. The Tea Party movement may simply be a secular version of religion. The U.S. people are passionately drawn to [...]
What Republican Mandate?
Posted: November 7, 2010 in Economy, Obama, Tea Party, U.S. Politics, UncategorizedThe majority of news media and political pundits have described the midterm election on November 2, 2010 as a large mandate for the Republican Party and as a big loss for the Democrats and Obama. Even the New York Times declared that there was an across “the country shift to the right.” They could not [...]
