A
recent headline in WND Money proclaims that BANKS
EXHALE AS TEA-PARTY POWER FIZZLES.
Here in
2014, few seem to remember that the Tea Party movement did not coalesce as
racist mob out to lynch Barack Obama.
Instead, it united in protest of what then candidate, Bob Barr, called
the BOMB, that Bush
Obama McCain Bailouts. The Tea Party
was launched to crusade on behalf of capitalism, free markets, fiscal responsibility
and monetary sanity, not on cultural or racial animus.
Not
long after the election of President Obama, another populist uprising emerged,
the Occupy Movement. This bunch was
younger, scruffier and less respectful of private property than the Tea
Partiers. Yet they had much in common.
Both
objected to the bailout of millionaires and billionaires who could not
competently manage their companies or their investment portfolios.
Like
all decent and compassionate people, both would like to see health care
provided to all deserving Americans. Of
course their solution differed. The Tea
Party opted for deregulation so as to unleash the power of free markets, drive prices
down and make quality care affordable for the masses. The Occupiers would opt for single
payer. Both would agree; however, that
the Affordable care Act is little more than a sop to Big Insurance, Big Pharma
and the AMA while giving free pass exemptions to favored corporations and labor
unions.
The Occupiers
and the Tea Party also joined hands in opposition to the Fed’s expansionist
monetary policy, particularly those of both camps who supported Ron Paul. Once again this is a policy that benefits
only the wealthiest of Americans while doing material harm to the average
citizen with a savings account or is living on a fixed income. Additionally, currency inflation has been
used by regimes throughout history to finance unpopular wars and obscure their
true cost.
We see
the same problems. We see that corporatism
and crony capitalism are at the heart of America’s material woes. We
differ as to the cure. This is why Daryl Brooks, Mark Falzon and I reached out
the Occupy Trenton in 2011 to try to bridge the gap.
Together
we can make life uncomfortable for corrupt politicians and their corporate
clients. This is why Ralph Nader is
calling for an alliance of “authentic
conservatives, libertarians, progressives and liberals” to combat this infestation.
The
fight must start with an understanding of economics based in human action, an appreciation for natural and just law, an insistence government
in accordance with that law and an abhorrence of arbitrary rule by the whims
of men.
But
most of all it requires fortitude and commitment, because tyranny never sleeps.
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