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"If laws & votes don't work, then bullying, intimidation & violence is the "southern" Republican
Tea Party strategy..... sounds treasonous. No wonder Raleigh NC has ongoing Moral Mondays
protest marches & speeches against Republicans..... Protest marches reminiscent of the 1960s
civil rights movements. Oh but, contrary to TP claims, we do understand them & the injustices
they represent!
"Gun ownership is sometimes viewed as a part of Southern culture, but more than that, it plays a
irreplaceable role in the Confederate worldview. Tea Partiers will tell you that the Second
Amendment is our protection against “tyranny”. But in practice tyranny simply means a change
in the established social order, even if that change happens — maybe especially if it happens —
through the democratic processes defined in the Constitution.
If the established social order cannot be defended by votes and laws, then it will be defended
by intimidation and violence.
How are We the People going to shoot abortion doctors and civil rights activists if we don’t
have guns?" So, Tea Partiers don't cope well with change. With demographics shifting toward
white males becoming a minority no wonder they balk at gun control reforms.

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The Boston Tea Party protest was aimed at a Parliament where the colonists had no representation,
and at an appointed governor who did not have to answer to the people he ruled. Today’s Tea Party
faces a completely different problem: how a shrinking conservative minority can keep change at bay
in spite of the democratic processes defined in the Constitution. That’s why they need guns. That’s
why they need to keep the wrong people from voting in their full numbers.
These right-wing extremists have misappropriated the Boston patriots and the Philadelphia founders
because their true ancestors — Jefferson Davis and the Confederates — are in poor repute.


The symbol Tea Partiers actually revere is the Confederate battle flag. Let a group of right-wingers
ramble for any length of time, and you will soon hear that slavery wasn’t really so bad, that Andrew
Johnson was right, that Lincoln shouldn’t have fought the war, that states have the rights of nullification
and secession, that the war wasn’t really about slavery anyway, and a lot of other Confederate mythology

Quoted from CICERO

At the founding of the US Federal Government,the average representative to constituent ratio in a district was 30,000 to 1 representative.  Today it is averaging 700,000 to 1 representative.  Tell me a venue where a congressperson can meet 700,000 people.  Representation today consist of TV ads and campaign mailers.  There is no real representation.