Absolutism: The Tea Party Theology

It looks like all over the country the American people are not buying what the Tea Party has to sell. Senator Cruz and Sarah Palin are losers once again, and they are mad as hell about this fact. These Tea Partiers are flailing about against the Republicans, Democrats and anyone else that refuses to follow their party line of absolutism.

Absolutism is at the core of the Tea Party which has loosely based itself on the idea of Puritanism. This theory has political as well as religious implications such as the ideas that truth and morality are absolute and not conditional upon human perception. And, if you refuse to follow these precepts, then, you are immoral or worst amoral.  Of course you will not be able to understand these absolutes unless you unquestioningly but into the Tea Party point of view.

This political and religious belief system leaves no room to question the authorities be they religious or political. You must follow what they say and prescribe or you will be punished if not in this life in the next. These concepts are why these Tea Party and religious radicals have such a hard time understanding the idea of freewill or the idea that morality can and will change as society evolves and changes.

At the heart of the Tea Party’s animus today, is marriage equality. These religious terrorists are livid about the idea that marriage is between one man and one woman, moreover, that marriage is all about reproduction of the species. For them, marriage is not about love and caring and companionship, but about deciding who is allowed to love (publically) and forcing the rest of society to accept their view of marriage. Tangled in this web of loathing is the idea that being homosexual is a lifestyle choice that must be changed or these amoral people will suffer in the fires of hell.

Their hostility for ideas that they cannot control does not stop there. The thought that a woman can choose an abortion or that she has the right to control what happens to her body by using birth control or refusing sexual advances is outrageous and has led some of these religious terrorists to murder in the name of God. It demonstrates the dishonest nature of the religious right and their corresponding Tea Party minions that are willing to carry out these heinous acts.

Bombing of abortion clinics, killing doctors are disgusting and immoral acts, but they pale in comparison to the political treachery that is taking place in state legislatures across the country. These white men pretend that they are trying to protect women’s health by making it nearly impossible for women to have health screenings by forcing clinics and doctors to meet regulatory standards that they know will shut down the majority of women’s health clinics that do significantly more than abortions in that they carry out important health screening and contraception distribution to low and middle income families. The irony is that these legislators pretend to believe in less regulations for American businesses unless of course said businesses do not follow their moral directives.

All of these issues revolve around moral imperatives and the absolutism that so profoundly dominates their perspective of how Americans should behave. When you are as intractable and rigid as these political operatives, there is no reason to compromise and share power or ideas or opinions because concessions are impossible.

In the world of the Tea Party absolutists, strength can only be seen by unflinchingly clinging to your strict autocracy at all costs even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary as in the case of Karl Rove questioning the outcome of the last Presidential election on national television and left holding the bag.

The foundations of this country have demanded compromise. If it was not for George Washington and his ability to broker an agreement between opposing factions, our present day Constitution may not exist, thus, we may never have existed as the country we are today. If President Lincoln had not stood his ground against inflexible tyranny and fought for the equality we presently enjoy, we may not be the country that we are today. And, if we do not stand up to the tyranny of the Tea Party, there is no telling where we are headed as a country.

That last statement is completely erroneous in that it is clear as to what kind of country we will become if we allow corporate America to buy elections; we will transform from a Representative Democracy to a Technocratic Oligarchy in which our elected officials will only serve their corporate sponsors due to the rigidity of an electorate that does not understand or appreciate the fact that absolutism is what hundreds of thousands of American soldiers have sacrificed their lives and wellbeing for over 200 years.