THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIII, Issue # 69, March 16, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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ONGOING EFFORTS TO DERAIL THE TEA PARTY
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE AMERICAN POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT VERSUS THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT: THE CONTINUING ENDEAVOR
OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, LEFTWING LIBERALS, & THEIR POLITICAL ALLIES IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA TO DIVIDE &
DESTROY THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT, PERCEIVING THIS GROUNDSWELL OF CONSERVATISM FROM THE AMERICAN
HEARTLAND TO BE A SERIOUS THREAT TO SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LIBERAL LEFTIST POLICY AGENDA IN
THE U.S.A. -- HOW THE LEFT IS FAILING IN ITS SUBVERSIVE ENDEAVOR TO UNDERMINE THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN
CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT
FULL STORY:
When the burgeoning Tea Party movement first became apparent in early 2009, the Democratic Party/Leftist media political
machine attempted to simply ignore it. Later on, their response was to try to trivialize it as a “fringe movement” or, in the
words of then U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Democrat - California) as “Astroturf,” an obvious intimation that it was a
phony alternative to any true coalescing of grassroots sentiments. And, of course, everybody remembers the perverse
pejorative, “Tea Baggers,” which increasingly desperate Liberals invoked as a last ditch effort to demean and denigrate this
relentless groundswell of Conservatism from the Heartland, in vain hopes of neutralizing it prior to the November, 2010,
elections.
Their efforts failed, and the enormous impact of the Tea Party movement last year at the ballot box vastly exceeded any
expectations from the political Left. Real America had finally had its fill of the Liberal agenda and, in resounding terms, made
plain its intention to change the downward direction of the country. Yet, Liberals do not give up so easily. Nor do they ever
feel compelled to confine their efforts to the realm of truth or reality. Since November, they have merely changed tactics,
while maintaining their original goal of shifting the country irreversibly to the Left.
Their latest attempt exhibits both their gut level determination to ultimately win, and the slippery fraudulence and
deviousness of their tactics. Ultimately, they seek to magnify and aggravate any possible fissures within the Tea Party
movement, with an end goal of dividing and fatally undermining it. Those Americans who have made it such a resounding
success must recognize that their most effective defense is to stay true to the ideals that have brought them to this point,
while remaining vigilant and guarded against the subversive efforts of the opposition.
A March 15, 2011 commentary by Jonathan Martin in the Politico, stands as a prime example of the latest tactic.
Attempting to portray itself as a thoughtful and objective website presenting balanced political analysis, Politico is,
instead, merely another avenue for deluging the American people with the standard platitudes of Liberal ideology.
In what seems, at first, to be a sympathetic assessment of Conservative politics, Martin’s piece, entitled “GOP 2012:
America in Decline” begins by presenting a coalescing point of the Tea Party movement, namely, that under the detestable
rule of Liberals, the nation has been put on a trajectory that portends the eventual loss of its greatness.
So far, so good. Yet almost immediately, Martin asserts that this harbinger of doom for the nation “could overshadow the
traditional focus on social and fiscal issues” on the political Right. What is no doubt believed by the Politico staff to be a
cunning and manipulative ruse, intended to isolate and marginalize the moral Conservatives, is, in fact, just another
transparent ploy to drive a wedge into the Conservative movement.
Though, among Beltway insiders, this notion that these areas of concern might be mutually exclusive is entirely plausible
and could thus be exploited in their “divide and conquer” strategy, in reality, it merely reflects their own ethical bankruptcy
and total lack of understanding as to what really ails the nation, and how the course to a proper fix must be followed. In
truth, no incongruity whatsoever exists between the fiscal problems facing the country, its general decline on the world
stage, and the collapse of morality and decency on Main Street.
Admittedly, the GOP has long been plagued with cowards in its midst who would rather avoid those messy “social issues,”
and especially any reference to the Judeo-Christian ethic that defines them. Adherents to this mindset have existed under
various titles. For many years, those who sought to advance their political careers within the Republican Party, while
identifying with the ideologies of the Democrats, were able to legitimize their duplicity under the banner of “moderates.”
But, since the grim reality of that scheme has been unmasked of late, they have been forced to become more creative.
So, now they accredit themselves with such noble sounding terms as “Fiscally Conservative,” which means, in reality, that
they believe they can somehow preside over the current societal decay without incurring any of its exorbitant and
unavoidable costs. And these individuals, almost without fail, have been reliable collaborators with the Democrats, helping
Liberal agenda items across the finish line and betraying the GOP at critical moments in defining debates.
However, the rules of the game have changed. The horrendous Liberal/Socialist juggernaut of the past few years has
irreversibly awakened the people of America to the scope of the threats that face them. And any message asserting that the
moral component of the current national decline can be ignored, or that it was not a crucial factor in last year’s Conservative
electoral landslide, will be immediately discounted and rejected by the vast majority of the Conservative ascendancy.
Though some would make the case that the “backbone” of the Tea Party movement is strictly about the nation’s dismal
financial situation, the drastic makeover of the American political scene, particularly in the Congress, suggests quite the
opposite. For example, eighty-seven percent of the freshmen members of the U.S. House of Representatives identify
themselves as strongly pro-life. And, if that statistic is confined to Republican ranks, the number is higher still.
In Iowa, though voters maintained their state’s delegation to the Congress as a 3-2 Democrat majority, they took the
unprecedented step of removing from the State Supreme Court three judges who were up for reconfirmation who had
overridden a statute preserving the traditional definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman. While
allowing the incumbents from both parties to remain (though the Democrats did so by small margins) they were fervent in
their determination to reinforce the traditional values on which their state, and the nation as a whole were built.
Clearly, the Liberal “ruling class” is working overtime to fracture and dilute Conservative America. However, the people of
the Heartland remain dedicated to the principles and heritage of their nation and all that this cause embodies. No true
advocacy of the U.S. Constitution, or any of the blessings derived from it, can reject the component of morality that its
Framers recognized as inseparable from it in spirit and principle.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics, Political Competition, & the Control of
Public Policy: Elections, Political Parties, Political Factions,
Ideologies, Special Interest Groups, & Political Corruption
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Fiscal Policy: Taxation & Government Spending
Morality, Decency, & Traditional American Family Values
Marriage, Family, & Society
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Christopher G. Adamo is a resident of southeastern Wyoming. He has been involved in politics at the local and state level
for many years. His contact information and article archives can be found at www.chrisadamo.com
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