Would It Were So!

SEE HERE The Tea Party phenomenon is one of the few heartening aspects of the current political landscape. Perhaps patriots throughout the United States are getting it, that an informed citizenry is the necessary element for a free society to prosper. Don't count on the political parties getting it any time soon. The whole party idea is to create cliques which like old-boy clubs parcel out power and influence with relatively little mind to principle. The spirit of party is like the spirit of the inner circle or the inner ring that C.S. Lewis so indicted in both non-fiction and fiction. Perhaps his most telling work against the inner ring was "The Abolition of Man" and its fictional counterpart the third volume of the space trilogy, "That Hideous Strength." If we are to have any hope we must restore at least one of the major parties to the rule of principle. Right now the only one that looks to be in play is the Republican Party. So it is essential that the Tea Party movement co-opt the Republican Party and restore it to a party of principle. Anything less will end up being business as usual.