Moya Lázaro, Fernando.
People know that taking apart anything is much easier than put it all together. We have learnt this lesson when we were children, when we dissembled one of our toys and we had to call our father to reassemble it. Politicians were also once children, although sometimes is hard to believe that it really happened, because of that they learnt the same lesson that you learnt; the difference is that some of them are having the same behavior in the political life, while we only have this behavior when we want to fix the remote control, which is impossible by the way.
It is true that nowadays the parties are much more similar in their messages than never, they cannot make a huge difference between them. Politicians have become state workers, when they should be opinion leaders, they should come up with new ideas to develop the society which they are working for. Nowadays they only huddle, throwing some stones from the bunch but not participating in the development of the country only waiting for their opportunity.
And what is the fastest way to reach a society which is sick and tired of their politics? Well, they use simple arguments. They only listen what the citizens are saying and repeat it, aggressively, thousands of times without giving any solutions only complaining about everything. In the case of the Tea Party, they use taxes but we have closer examples like the major of the town of Salt in Spain who is been using the problem of the immigration to get more votes or the voices in the Generalitat Valenciana crying for the imbalance in the money they are receiving from the central government compared with other regions. But we have to take a look to another movements like the 15-M; many of their supporters do not know what they are asking for or what measures the government should take; they only want a change but without knowing what change, how to do it and who does it, make the message is vague and ambiguous. Those weak arguments move the crowd although they do not know where they are really going.
The easiest arguments are always the most dangerous. Focusing on the Tea Party’s arguments we could agree with some of them, anyone likes to pay taxes or being unemployed, but taxes are necessary for the development of the country and to get the society more equal. But if we agree with the political ideas of the Tea Party, we should ask them how they would do it possible and what kind of society would bring up with the new line of thoughts. They want to change the society completely from head to toe, they want to decentralize all the decisions no matter what happen or who pay the consequences provided that they get results. The 15-M movement use some similar arguments, such as every decision has to be made by voting, decentralization or bringing down the government and set up assemblies instead.
In the hard times people think more individually but we are wrong because it is the time where we must think more globally. We have to be very careful because some of the ideas of these movements are valid and promising but they are not the solution. It is the time when the brightest people should come up and lead us, not with easy or fast solutions but good solutions for everyone. We are no longer kids but we still need a “father” to sort out the problems that we are not able to cope with, if we put our faith and fate on other “children’s” hands who only know how to break down the society; we will go back a century in rights, knowledge and well-being.
For more and better info about the Tea Party visit this link:
http://fores.blogs.uv.es/2011/07/31/03-us-economy-the-tea-party-is-a-real-threat-to-america/