Ben Carson, M.D. - America the Beautiful - 6

 

Tea Parties - Then and Now:

The rebellion of the Boston Tea Party has many similarities with the political movement today known as the Tea Party. For the sake of simplicity, let's call the colonial protesters the old Tea Party movement and call the political movement established in 2009 the new Tea Party movement.

 

In the days of the old Tea Party, the British government and the American Loyalists attempted to establish and maintain control of the colonies. When the Patriots Ben C to resist such efforts, those in power tended to deny that there was any real resistance from anyone except extremist, fringe individuals.

 

Let's call this the denial phase. But as the protests became more prolific, denial was no longer tenable, and the powers that be decided to ignore the movement.... Let's call this the denial phase. Unfortunately for those in control, ignoring the movement did nothing to lessen its intensity and, in fact, gave it time to grow even more powerful.... Many of the regulations subsequently imposed were part of this punitive resistance phase....

 

The British had a long and successful history in colonizing many parts of the world, which had brought them great power and wealth, but America and the Americans were different than any of the other groups they had ruled. Perhaps, they considered, America should be exempt from the sovereign dictates of the throne....

 

During this exemption phase, it became increasingly easy for the Loyalists to desert the throne and align themselves with the Patriots who were gaining power and the admiration of the populace. Many of those formerly in power - the American Loyalist, dedicated to the British crown, for example - began to believe and act on the very things that they once railed against, conforming to the ideology and actions of their previous enemies, This we shall call the conforming phase.

 

The final phase is the transformation phase, in which the ideology of the resistance movement becomes the mainstream philosophy governing a now changed society. And in the case of the American Revolution, the ideas of the old Tea Party - less central government, more local rule, and more personal responsibility - became the basis for a new society that rapidly rose to the pinnacle of the world.

 

GEORGE H. KUBECK, IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH, CINOPS BE GONE, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013