Dear Tea Party:
You may have noticed in the past few days that the Obama administration, through designated attack dogs—David Axelrod, John Kerry, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, etc.—have blamed the Tea Party for the recent S&P downgrade.
Naturally, the Obama-enabling liberal media have jumped on the bandwagon and accused the Tea Party of being hostage-takers, terrorists, and gee, according to the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman, the Tea Party are just like Hizbullah.
Hizbullah, by the way, are Iranian-funded terrorists whose stated mission is to annihilate Israel and every Jew on the face of the earth. They also like killing Americans in mass bombings.
The left also defines Tea Party members as religious conspirators. The Christianity of Sarah Palin, Michele Bachman, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry are, to the left, proof of a dangerous piety.
Of course, leftist piety in its worship of global warming, code for the weather, and social justice, code for socialism, is perfectly fine.
Thus, the Tea Party is attacked on two fronts: economic and religious.
In short the Tea Party are the new Jews.
Since time immemorial, the Jewish people have been scapegoated as a strange people who wickedly but cleverly undermine the very foundations of every society in which they settle.
We are: money-lenders, bankers, communists, capitalists, socialists, anarchists, war-mongers, pacifists, profiteers, cowards, traitors, a people absent loyalty except to a secret Jewish conspiracy to, um, take over the earth. Y’know, just like Lex Luthor.
Tea Party members should be proud. When a good, peaceful and patriotic group of people are painted with the brush of Jew-hatred you know you are doing something right, you know that those on the attack have no serious ideas and navigate life with broken moral compass.
I have one minor suggestion, a sure-fire way of beating the Obama smear machine at its own game.
Change your name.
The Tea Party should relabel itself—
— The Jews.
Think of it: every time Obama and his crowd try to shift blame from their own dismal failures they will blame it on, drum beat please, THE JEWS!
Shalom U’vracha –
As a Tea Party “Hobbit, Conspirator, and Terrorist”, thank you for the recommendation to call Tea Party members like myself “the new Jews.” Finally, a compliment! 🙂
Great article, as usual, Robert! And if you’re not a Tea Party member, we’d LOVE to have you!
I’m not religious, though my deeply Catholic father refers, approvingly, to my spiritual side. My political beliefs are haphazard.
But given the choices on offer, I’ll take a moderate right-wing, fiscally conservative government based on Judaeo-Christian principles ahead of the alternatives.
Heh. As a staunch supporter of the Tea Party movement, let me express my heart felt acceptance of my new status as an honorary member of the Jewish community.
David: As to not understanding the left’s war on Christianity and their acceptance of Islam, understand that the Isalmics and the Left both share a fundamental goal – the deconstruction of Western civilization and thus, at this stage of their development, are natural allies. This from a post I did awhile back gives some of the historical background:
This is a very old war. Christianity and Judaism are the fundamental pillars of Western civilization. Socialism is a philosophy that seeks to deconstruct traditional society and put in its place a new order overseen by an omnipotent government that would redistribute wealth and use its police powers to create social equality. To this end, socialists have warred against Christianity and Judaism for over two centuries. Indeed, when socialism was born in the crucible of the French Revolution, one of the first acts of the Revolutionary government was to initiate a systematic and brutal war on the Catholic Church and its clergy.
The left has waged this war against Christianity and Judaism ever since. Karl Marx, socialism’s greatest philosopher, famously wrote in his Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right that religion is the “opium of the people” and that “[t]he abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness.” The British socialist party wrote in their 1911 manifesto that “it is a profound truth that Socialism is the natural enemy of religion.” In America, the socialist left has used activist Courts as an a means of removing all aspects of Christianity from the public square while in Britain, the Labour Party is demoting Christianity and deconstructing the Anglican Church. Thus the sensationalism and bias with which the left is treating the priest scandal today is merely one more battle in an ongoing war. And on that thought, let me recommend this article by Patrick O’Hannigan, taking the NYT to task for sensationalizing the scandal and disregarding any concerns with accuracy or balance in their reporting.
With the left’s partial success in their war on Christianity has come an interesting phenomena – the search for something to replace Christianity among the newly secularized. It would seem that we humans are hard wired to look for what amounts to a religion to give ourselves a moral mooring and a greater purpose in life. Socialist governments recognized this. Indeed, the first socialists in France substituted government sponsored cult movements in place of the Catholic Church. In Communist countries, where raw police power was used – not wholly successfully – to crush Christianity and Judaism, socialism itself was raised to the level of a religion complete with a sainthood – the quasi-deification of communist leaders as part of a cult of personality. Catholics had the Shroud of Turin; Soviets had the mummy of Lenin.
On an individual level, the same search for a substitute is happening in the West. Many of the secular left today embrace environmentalism as a religion – and indeed, it was but a few months ago that UNEP explicitly called for the global warming movement to be pushed as a religious alternative to Christianity. Still others embrace the airy spiritualism of New Age thought.
All of this has existential ramifications for Western society. For the better part of two millennium, the Judeo-Christian ethic has provided a rock solid framework for morality at the heart of Western society – one that puts maximum value on each individual human life and one that provides moral clarity in such things as Christianity’s Golden Rule and Judaism’s “Great Commandment.” Take that mooring away from the ancient expressions of our deity and all morality then becomes dependant on what any particular person or government defines as the greater good.
When governments and individuals can define by their whim what is moral or immoral, what is desirable and what is punishable, human life is almost inevitably devalued. Certainly Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Castro, and Pol Pot, between them responsible for the murder of well over a hundred million people in the 20th century, held to socialist belief systems that devalued human life and elevated in its stead political ideology. Many in the green movement argue that man is a parasite on the world and call for strictly limiting his impact using authoritarian means – including population control, forced sterilization and other such methods. Far less destructive but no less insidious are the new age religions – for but one example, mystic beliefs based on the book and movie The Secret, where one only needs to really believe – and maybe click their heels three times – and then the “universe will provide.” It certainly saves one the trouble of actually dealing with real world problems, at least until they come to crisis proportions. Or the neo-Druidism one can see in practice among the many robed figures gathered at Stonehenge each Equinox. Hopefully these modern day animists will not also seek to resurrect the Druidic custom of human sacrifice.
The bottom line is, regardless whether one believes in Judaism or Christianity, we will pay a very heavy price indeed for jettisoning them as the bedrock of Western society. Yet that is precisely what the left has sought for over two centuries, promising in their stead a secular heaven on earth. Ironically, should they fully succeed, history teaches us that their promised earthly heaven will be far more likely to resemble biblical hell.
I love it!
However, this 13th generation American is strongly considering moving to Israel…
I figure that if I have to live under a government that is trying to commit suicide, I might as well benefit from the holiness of the Land of Israel, even though I still might be living under a government that is trying…
In the mainstream media, Christians are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. If the Left sees a devote Christian candidate, they scream extremism and Dominionism. If the Right sees a moderate Christian candidate, they claim the candidate isn’t a “worthy Christian” and the media are more than willing to splash those headlines across the news.
I sure other religions have similar complaints, but I don’t recall seeing many Jews criticized for not being pious enough, or Muslims being called out for being too devoted.
(For some reason, my html code didn’t seem to work in my last post… using Firefox 5.0.1 on XP SP 3)
I observe that many secular Americans feel far more threatened by serious Christians than by even the most violence-oriented, Sharia-advocating radical Muslims. Not religious myself, but I find this difficult to understand. Which is more of a threat, someone who wants to talk to you about Jesus (for what he believes is your own good) or somebody who wants to kill you? Should be obvious, but apparently not to some.
This is very serious—the anti-Christian bigotry has become so serious that it may well mean that no devout Christian can be elected President, which in turn may imply Obama and his like indefinitely.
If you are just skimming Robert’s post — do yourself a favor and look at the link for “conspirators”. It’s a fascinating read about the Left claiming Republican Christians are Dominionists. The article defines Dominionism as:
“<b><i>Put simply, Dominionism means that Christians have a God-given right to rule all earthly institutions</b></i>”
Two things came to my mind when I read that statement. The first was “Really? I’m a conservative Republican and I’ve never heard of this movement.” and secondly, couldn’t we just change “Christians” to “Jews” and we’d have a classic anti-Semitic text worthy of the Nazis, Hezbollah, or the Ku Klux Klan?
The Tea Party has been Washington’s spoiler.
And I like that.
But there is so much more to do or the country will financially disintegrate.
I thought – today – much of the vitriol is due to the fact that, to live within a financially responsible way, much of the pet programs the politicians have built over the decades will have to go.
Don’t know if that can be done – but it has to. We cannot support this massive bureaucracy that exists.
Seeing as how many people jump all over evangelical Christians for their strong support of Israel, relabeling themselves as The Jews would send liberals into frothing fits of outrage. The members of the Coffee Party (all three of them) would spend the next week on MSNBC talking about the separation of church and state. Rev Wright would tell Obama that if he had listened better when he was in his church he would have known all along that the Jews were his enemy. Debbie Wasserman Schultz would be so outraged her hair would go as straight as a highway in Kansas. And every anti-Semite in the world would see it as part of the great Jewish world conspiracy.