Saturday, October 2, 2010

Tea Party Anarchism?

This is from a couple of weeks ago now, but Newsweek and Slate uber-liberal columnist Jacob Weisberg (along with many others, I'm sure) sees an anarchic, anti-authority bent to the Tea Party movement.  Is he serious?

First, a charge such as this coming from anyone on the Left is just plain funny.  Whatever happened to sticking it to the Man?  Power to the People?  Workers of the world unite?  You know, the rallying cries of leftist demagogues for generations.

The only thing anarchic about the Tea Party uprising is the movement itself.  Its provenance gives new meaning to the word spontaneous.  To this point, try as they might, the leftists have been unable to identify successfully any single populariser they can then isolate and demonize.  Neither have they located any group or individual responsible for funding the whole operation.  Someone like, oh, I don't know, George Soros, for example.  They haven't, because there is none.

Finally, only a Lefty could confuse a demand for a return to constitutional government, a government of limited and enumerated powers, anarchy.

But then, maybe not.  If I understood the Constitution to be nothing more than a point-less rough draft of general guidelines that, in any case, could not be meaningfully interpreted even one minute after the ink with which it was written was dry, then maybe I'd think a return to it was anarchic too.

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