Unifying the tea party ~ By Joseph Farah

This is an excellent idea for unifying the tea party. It makes sense. It eliminates arguments. It might even help to silence the critics. The only ones that would argue with how Joseph explains it are the very ones that we want to vote out or remove from office!

Read the Declaration of Independence.

It's still a beautiful vision for Americans today.

In fact, given our predicament, we are in greater need of independence, self-government, sovereignty, the rule of law and the will of the people than we were 234 years ago.

The only thing that will constrain this beautiful, spontaneous, grass-roots tea-party movement from achieving its goals is a vision too small and unworthy of the challenges we face.

By Joseph Farah

Posted: April 28, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

There are many powerful forces trying to splinter and divide the tea-party movement.

My goal is to unify it.

But I adamantly disagree with those who say they share my goal but want to reach it by defining the tea party as a movement about a limited number of economic issues.

In fact, that's a sure way to blow it up.

Every worthy and righteous movement in the history of America was about much more than materialism. And, ultimately, if you are concerned about economics alone, you are a materialist.

The founders of this great country are the inspiration for the modern tea-party movement. They were not materialists. Their concerns went far beyond economics. They had a dream about something that had never before existed in the history of the world – a nation governed by the rule of law and the will of the people, a vision of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," a concept "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights."

If the tea-party movement wants to reach its potential, it needs to forgo the temptation to "narrow" its focus to a set of mere issues and "expand" its vision to one in line with the Declaration of Independence.

You want a big tent? Expand the vision. You want a small tent? Narrow your focus to economic and materialistic issues that are here today and gone tomorrow.

The economy ebbs and flows. It works in cycles. But liberty, the founders recognized, is always under attack.

Open your eyes. What we're facing in America is not just an attack on prosperity. It's an attack on freedom – across the board. It's an attack on "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." It's an attack on the notion that we are all created equal by God. It's an attack on the very notion that we are accountable to God and made in His own image.

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