If your strategy is to wait for your opponent to fail. Then you have no strategy

     Recently, I tweeted. “If your strategy is to wait for your opponent to fail. Then you have no strategy.”

    I tweeted this because, I hear the thinking of the talking heads. “Let the Affordable Care Act fail on it’s own. The Democrats own it.” I am afraid we may be losing that luxury.

    I hate the ACA as much as the next person. It is a substantial problem to deal with.  It will probably be the last straw that breaks the middle class. However, this is a divisive distraction meant to draw us from the true nature of our peril.  Go to Wikipedia, or any dictionary, and read up on the events leading to the October Revolution. These event were a little more drastic than our current situation. These event were mass unemployment, rapid rise in cost of living, and a huge national debt. Granted, our poor have been largely pacified, through far reaching government programs designed make their poverty comfortable. The Czars did not have that. However, how comfortable is the poor going to be with the competition of the middle class stressing the social safety net? Unremarkably, you can find the same conditions leading up to the rise of Adolph Hitler. Therefore, we are in a dangerous time and must guard against tyrants, while watching for visionaries.  

    I also favorited two tweets from Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63 “Sorry, but I'm from a place where everything was "shared equally" and it wasn't as nice as some of you seem to think it would be.”

Ciarán ‏@MrrBrightsidee  @Kasparov63 “Maybe the reason for that was the fact that it was never actually 'shared equally.’”

Garry Kasparov ‏@Kasparov63 @MrrBrightsidee “And that's exactly the message our Communist leaders kept repeating until the very end. Just share better, or else!”

    What good is the ACA failing if the creators are still in power. In the beginning, they may be a bit more diplomatic. “Share better. What other option do you have?”

    I do not see conspiracy theories everywhere I look. I just see the usual seven deadly sins leading us down the path of our own destruction.  Arrogance, envy, lust, sloth, greed, despair, and gluttony. Sprinkled with a heavy dose of incompetence, from both parties. All these things unchecked, lead to a collapse of society that inevitably produces a long line of tyrants to rule over you.

    I admit, it is not all your fault. The public at large has also fallen into these deadly habits, and have elected leaders to fulfill these needs.

This is what I hope the Tea Party is. The awakening of the people to the sins of their past. Yes, there are going to be those that try to control this awakening. After all. The Republican Party used it first, and then discarded it hoping it would go back to sleep. So realize what you have or get out of the way for someone who does. The Tea Party is just a name, and the people under it’s banner are wide awake and not ready for sleep. Do you want to destroy this banner just to have them take up the Libertarian one. I believe they will welcome us.

What is needed is a set of clear concise long term goals. Not reactive defensive posturing, while trying desperately to grow the base by appeasing people that will abandon you when they get what they want. The Tea Party is just a loose group of people fed up with the political pandering of both parties. Neither one is really solving any problems, just jockeying for positions on who holds the reigns of the bureaucracy. Meanwhile, we are getting crushed by stagnant growth and government spending.  Then you belittle Cruz, Lee, and Rand Paul and others as the panderers pulling off cheap political stunts. Right now they are the only threads holding us to the Republicans.

President Obama promised hope and change. So far he has lived up to the promise. He gave the poor false hope, and brought cronyism out of the shadows, and into the light of day. He unbridled the bureaucracies and placed the bridles on the private sector. He is actively reducing everyone workweek by decreasing the number of hours you have to work per week. Unless, you actually want to work to provide for your family. Then your hours may have increased. Therefore, we are tired of the excuses. You control one house, that is a small blessing. Otherwise, all this would be meaningless. You have provided a small speedbump. However, you could have been a barricade. Not the cheap movable types used by the Park Service. But the solid immovable kind that stood in the way of his agenda. That is what we sent you to do in 2010. However, your vainglory leads you to believe the media when they told you would just appear as obstructionist. Well there is very little to stand in the way of the ACA. So, we are left with the hope for a quick implosion of this debacle. It is our only hope to salvage what is left of our healthcare system and the middle class. A long protracted demise of the ACA only deepens the damage.

The ACA is only one of our problems. It can be repaired. It is not too late to save the middle class. However, it is going to take discipline and resolve to save it. We need real short and long term goals to fix the overspending, the broken tax code, the abuse of power, and our broken healthcare system. Not this, “let your opponent fail.” They already have, you just can’t see it. You are too busy listening to those that want it to work.