The Times They Are A-Changin'

Come gather ’round people

Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’
It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin’
Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin’
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’

Bob Dylan  1963

We, The Tea Party

Perhaps it took a full-blown Marxist, who was born in Kenya, to finally wake up the US electorate to the absolute corruption of our political system.  What I have been telling my liberal friends for years is the same thing John Pilger and Alex Jones have been saying regarding the corruption taking place in American foreign and domestic policies.  The social justice movement has been high jacked by people who have no interest in freedom or justice.  Socialist efforts to empower people to be self-sufficient and free have only resulted in the politicians creating a huge, unsustainable welfare state that keeps people dependent on government handouts.  It is destroying the middle class and stifling opportunities for people to lift themselves out of poverty.  Interestingly enough, the lack of a thriving middle class and government corruption was the reason given for the beginning of the progressive movement back in Teddy Roosevelt’s day.  Their desire, so it is said, was to establish virtue and efficiency in government and society.  This is a stark contrast compared to the results of the progressive movement today.   

The liberal/conservative debate has been raging loud and long.  It has only served as a distraction to divide the American electorate while the “establishment” continues its global agenda under our bickering noses.  Both Democrats and Republicans have been taking us down the road to a New World Order incrementally.  Like boiling a frog, they have dropped the American people into their pot and slowly turned up the heat.  A majority of politicians on both sides of the aisle put on smiling faces for the public and tell you they are working for the best interests of the country.  They then take an oath of office, pledging to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America, and promptly go to work for the wealthy elites who financed their campaigns.  The banks, insurance companies, corporations, and the military/industrial complex could care less about the Constitution, much less the average person.  Whether they are the wealthy elites pulling the strings in a capitalist New World Order or the oligarchs in control of a communist New World Order, they are still the few who rule over the many.      

I find the truth to be quite telling as the very people who voted for hope and change are now regretting it.  Obama has broken many campaign promises and is proving to be another status quo politician with an agenda despised by the electorate.  Yet the media propaganda machine, including FOX News, continues to spin out the lies and half-truths to the detriment of their own credibility.  CNN was recently caught reporting the Tea Party Movement to be a group of radical right wing extremists.  FOX News’ Glen Beck mocks “Obama birthers” and “911 truthers” as whacko conspiracy theorists.  In spite of the Michael Steele debacle, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are still spreading the fear that leaving the Republican Party will result in a Democrat victory.  

I left the Democrat Party during the Carter administration because I realized their policies were a failure and they no longer represented common Christian values.  As for my joining the Republican New Right, the last 30 years has seen conservative Christians treated by Rockefeller Republicans as the red headed step child of the Republican Party.  Then, in 2008, we were told that the era of Reagan conservatism was over.  Obama’s policies are just warmed over versions of the Carter years.  Democrats are racing to outspend the Bush years while the nation's economy still sputters.  The Patriot Act that the liberal left was screaming about is now being used to target Americans with hardly a peep from its former critics.  Well, that’s quite enough for me and the millions of freedom loving Americans like me. 

After all the back room deals, constant changes, and unprecedented legal maneuvers, we now have ObamaCare and still don’t know what it is and its implications on the taxpayer.   Improvement of medical care is doubtful.  Obama says that the bill contains conservative ideas.  He failed to mention that it was modeled after Romney Care, a brainchild of the Heritage Foundation, which became a complete boondoggle in the State Of Massachusetts after its legislature added to it.  The White House has its propaganda published on its website but won’t publish the 2,000 plus pages of the legislation.  The Internal Revenue Service is now in charge of enforcing it.  I question whether anyone in Congress actually read the thing through before voting on it much less considered its constitutional legitimacy.  Now Democrats hope to shove Cap And Trade down our throats, despite the revelation of Climategate, before the November elections this year while yet doing nothing to help our sputtering economy.  Also, waiting in the wings is a United Nations treaty to nullify our constitutional right to bear arms. 

Thus, the Tea Party continues to gain support by average Americans and the status quo is now feeling threatened by it.  There has been a mass attempt by the Obama administration and the media to portray conservatives to be right wing racists and terrorists.  What is coming to light is that the Tea Party is a grassroots movement that includes classical liberals, conservatives, libertarians, constitutionalists and independents who are aware of the corruption in government and of those elites pulling the strings.  It is my hope that liberals and conservatives can come together and talk about what we can agree on, which is empowering people with a real helping hand toward self-sufficiency and freedom.  This can be done without government entitlements and “nanny state” oversight.  Enjoy the videos below.