A Common Goal...

Over the past year or so “Tea Parties” have been springing up everywhere. The Tea Parties have brought people together from all walks of life. Republicans, Libertarians, even Democrats have all joined together with the stated goals of smaller government, lower taxes and fiscal responsibility. It would seem that there is a growing resentment for all of the major political parties when it comes to the unchecked and out of control spending. Although the majority of the criticism has been aimed at the Democrat party, the Tea Party has targeted all big spenders even a lot of Republicans.
Understandably so, this has the current administration very worried about upcoming elections. This has caused an assault from the big government types. They tried just about everything to dismiss and discredit the Tea Party movement. They even resorted to childish name calling referring to the Tea Party goers as “Tea Baggers” (A disgusting sexual act). Now they charge that the only reason so many people could possibly be for smaller government and low taxes is that they are racist. Ignoring that a large portion of the 20 million attendees have been black themselves, the statement in it of itself is ridiculous.
When Barack Obama was running for office many of my friends were saying that with Obama in office there would be less racial tension but it would seem that this administration tries to interject race into everything and anything that they don’t agree with or who doesn’t agree with them. Everyone knows that once the Race Card is thrown there is not much you can say to defend yourself.
In my personal life I train in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. At my school we literally have people from all walks of life. We have everything from doctors and lawyers to police and military to retail and food industry workers at our school. We have many different races, men & women. We have Libertarians, Republicans, Democrats, Green Party and Independents. We don’t all agree on everything but we all get along and enjoy being around each other because we all have common goals. At the gym our goals are to get better at BJJ, Thai Boxing and MMA. The Tea Party is the same in this manner. There are many people that don’t necessarily agree on everything but they are all concerned citizens that all agree that something needs to be done to curb the out of control spending and reduce the over taxation.