Follow the Tea Party to Disaster

A new political trend or movement developed in opposition to the ACA in 2010.  It appeared, at first blush, to be a grass roots movement against the ravages of the Great Recession, Big Government, and the Democratic Congress.

Closer historical analysis has shown the Tea Party movement to be a cynical ploy by big money interests to effect the balance of political power, rid the Republican Party of "Rhinos", and radically affect the United States.

Some, me included, call the most radical of the Tea Party as a latent fascist movement, aimed at the overthrow of the government.  Many Tea Party Web Sites indicate as much.

Now, we in Northern California are enduring more Tea Party strategy.  The latest is the state secession movement.

I must note, that in Germany in the early 30s, the Fascists  used secession from the national government in a similar fashion to discredit the democratic regime.  The economy was failing, so rural areas in Germany sought "autonomy through the fascist party" on everything from economic policy, tax policy, and finally even defense.

A familiar approach of fascism is to divide and conquer.  And a ploy often used is to seek a break away from central authority, set the party up as a puppet government, then overwhelm the government with fringe local governments who are actually fascist fronts.

Sound familiar?  The Tea Party Movement is practicing the same thing.   It is targeting rural areas in the United States, working on the fear and concern about state and federal governments, to "reform" the system.  In effect, what they are working to do is "take over" the system from outside, using rural areas as a springboard of discontent.

The revival of the "State of Jefferson" in northern California is an example.  Rural counties, like Siskiyou that was recently skewered by the Sacramento Bee, are seeking, with Tea Party members leading the charge, a secession from California.  This goes against all common sense, and is probably not doable, but the Tea Party persists.  The "cause" of the "State of Jefferson" works on fear, and frustration that rural counties have with state government that is dominated by urban areas.  It also is founded on racist reaction to the growing power of urban areas in California and the emergence of people of color as a potent political force.

On the national level, it is way more serious.  The Constitution set up a separation of powers government, that leans heavily to rural lightly populated areas.  There were two reasons for this:  one, the nation was at the time highly agrarian with slavery in half of it and purposefully restrained anti-slavery urban areas; and two, much of  what is now the United States were territories  not even owned by the United States and rural areas had to have more autonomy and power  to lure them into the union.  Territories would not join the union if they would lose all political power to the urbanized north.

As a result of this and other motives, we have a system that gives more representation to  territory than to people.  Each state has two Senators, and the Senate must pass everything that becomes law.  Wyoming has the same number of Senators as California, even though there are many counties in California that have more people in them than Wyoming and Montana together.

The corporate, frankly fascist leaders of the Tea Party have figured this out.  They have discovered that even though they might not ever again  win the Presidency, and may lose the House of Representatives, they can hold inordinate power if they win the Senate, or control it with filibusters.

The rural "outrage" fueling the secession movement in Siskiyou and Shasta Counties is  going on in other urban/rural state conflicts.  This is a quietly led movement by the Tea Party's nation wide, to overcome the increasing power of urban, multi-racial areas.

Which gets us to the next motive:  the use of secession to support white supremacy.  Sounds familiar doesn't it?  The drive for dividing rural counties from urban ones in California is directly related to the fact that people of color are increasingly gaining political power in urban areas.  White racists have fled those areas, for rural areas, and now find hope for the continuation of white supremacy in their white dominated "new states".

Of course, a bitter by-product of this will be the impoverishment of rural areas.  And in fact, "Red" areas of the country are increasingly become poorer when compared with "Blue" areas.

Red areas ironically depend more on central government money for their economies, but work to separate themselves with Tea Party leadership from Blue urban  areas.  The ironic result is impoverishment of Red areas.

Why do you ask, would they do such a stupid thing?  The reasons are evident if you study what happened in Germany.   Bavaria, a rural area, was the base of power for the rise of Hitler. It provided a nice cover to criticize and undermine central authority.  Of course, once Bavaria was successful in undermining the central government, its leadership became the central government, ended democracy and implemented a dictatorship.

This same approach is going on right now in the United States.  The looney secession movement is crafty like a fox.

Its local and seemingly tame objectives hide its true motives, the radical take over and destruction of our democratic form of government.