Open Thread: 9/12 Tea Parties

DGagnon on September 13, 2009 at 12:45 PM

thanks for your insight. If you read David Mcculloch’s book “1776″ you’ll clearly see that the Revolutionary War was largely unpopular, on the verge of being lost continuously, suffered personnel, supply, political shortages and was carried on by the efforts of a near minority of people, amongst whom were living Tories and British Loyalists.

Hence, your sentiments are correct. We will have to continue to do what is right, and pledge our lives, our honor and our fortunes as men such as Washington and Jefferson or Adams did. It is only posterity that will judge whether we are correct or not. For many of these men died without ever knowing how great this nation would ever become. Now it is our turn, to engage and seize upon the opportunity before us–the preservation of this nation for our children, and for children to be born 230 years from now. How will they remember us? What shall we write, and what shall we do that will commit us to memory? What Delaware do we need to cross, what guns from Ticonderoga do we need to drag across frozen lakes, what camp needs to be raided, what corruption needs uncovered, what fight needs to be fought, and what government needs to be overturned and “new guards” established? For those are the questions we must ask, the answers we must provide–and, following that, history will decide for itself, whether or not we chose correctly.

ted c on September 13, 2009 at 1:02 PM

DG:
Try as they might, can’t ignore the largest protest in American history.

There will be second and third order effects. The first order effects are the reporting or lack thereof surrounding the event.

Second order effects are going to the blog wave that has begun soon after the event is over and people begin posting their pictures and video. That’ll spark other stories that will begin to shape the event into more detail.

Third order effects are going to be the grannies or young person who runs for office, unseats someone previously deemed undefeatable in some district. Moreover, now there will be more open and sustained challenges to bias, liberalism, socialism in every venue–elementary schools, universities, government and everywhere. Alas there will be legions of infantry ready to do battle and post it on youtube for the hypocrisy to be seen writ large.

there will be effects, large, medium and small but effects that will carry the momentum of this mountain forward. It’ll crash on the capitol, the white house, and everywhere else across the US. It is so large, amorphous and far reaching we will never know what further effects it will have.

ted c on September 13, 2009 at 1:51 PM

No offense Ted, but there are much better books on the subject than anything written by McCulloch who tends to psychoanalyze the key actors using contemporary standards. That isn’t good scholarship although it makes for entertaining reading. For some context, I’d recommend The Long Fuse that starts with the widely different perspectives the British and Americans viewed their role in the empire and how that ultimately lead to a clash of visions.

highhopes on September 13, 2009 at 2:05 PM

Ohhh, HATE SPEECH! disagreement, so much HATE….

just kiddin’– thanks for the tip, haven’t heard of that book but you’re probably right. Either way, I love to illuminate how liberals have tried to redefine “disagreement” as “hate speech.”

ted c on September 13, 2009 at 2:10 PM