Disillusioned Tea Party Patriots

Disillusionment: loss of false belief, disappointment caused by a frustrated ideal that fails

Almost a year ago in November of 2010, a surge of popular dissent from people who were sick and tired of being lied to and ignored resulted in a historic shift of power in the House of Representatives. Now, one election by itself (even the biggest change in a generation) isn’t enough when you only change about 70 seats in a 535 member congress, but it certainly was enough to apply the brakes in a big way.

Or was it? Even the most conservative of Tennessee’s representatives, Marsha Blackburn, and tea party freshman, Dianne Black, both voted not only to raise the debt limit by more than $2,000,000,000,000, but did so without any cuts at all… and they call that a deal? A cut is a reduction of what you have. 10-1=9. That’s a cut. What they voted for was an increase that may not be quite as large as it otherwise would have been. 10+2=12. That is an increase. What’s worse, they voted to create a new “super congress” of just 12 people, hand-picked by the leaders of each political party, to come up with a plan not to cut anything from the budget, but to increase it by just a tiny bit less. Worse still, the new “super congress” recommendations are not debatable and not amendable. They will only get a straight up or down vote and if their recommendation fails, then automatic “cuts” go into effect in places where the full congress would never agree to. Our representative republic has just been co-opted by an elite group of 12. That’s not a representative republic. That’s not even a democracy. That is an oligarchy. That is the complete opposite of what millions of people voted for in November 2010.

We have been betrayed by politicians in Washington DC again, even the ones we trusted, and if you call their offices and challenge them on it, their excuse is that they had to “do something” and what they finally voted for was “the best they could get”. What is it about that cesspool of corruption and deceit called Washington DC that strips away the principles, honesty, and common sense of the people we send there?

If the good Lord tarries, what will happen next year when we elect a new president and new congressmen? Will they betray us as well? They will if we don’t elect the right people in enough numbers and if we don’t understand the key to how and why our constitutional republic is supposed to work. The Constitution for the United States is a plainly written relatively short document. It was written to be easy to understand and difficult to change. There is just one catch. It was written for a specific group of people that are fast fading into the dust bin of history. Founding father, co-author of the Constitution for the United States, and 2nd President of the United States defined this group of people in one beautifully short statement of warning. “Our constitution was written for a moral and upright people and is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”

Want your country back? Do you want the constitution to matter? Be the person for whom John Adams co-authored the Constitution. Be moral and upright. Pray for God’s providence, and vote for people like that. Anything else is just asking for our nation to continue to devolve into tyranny and chaos.