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I need some assistance with these assignment. the tea party movement: past and present Thank you in advance for the help!
I need some assistance with these assignment. the tea party movement: past and present Thank you in advance for the help! The intention of this study is the Tea Party Movement that appears to have emerged on the scene suddenly. It has found expression in a growing tide of dissatisfaction with the current political regime especially with respect to Congress, the President both of which have rated poorly among the American electorate. Staging angry and enthusiastic rallies across the US, the Tea Party has been credited with influencing the Democrats losing its stronghold in the US House of Representative in the November 2010 elections and the successful seating of a number of Tea Party supported candidates. The Tea Party’s popularity and success among the electorate does not correspond with its negative and often trivial representation in the press. Lepore makes a connection between the Boston Tea Party’s rebellion of 1781 which spearheaded the American Revolution and the Tea Party of the 21st century. Thus the Tea Party today is perhaps just the latest replication of the Boston Tea Party or populist revolutionary thinking in the US. The Tea Party Movement embraces the idea that “individual freedoms and economic liberties” are inalienable rights and “one does not exist without the other”. From the perspective of the Tea Party Movement, economic liberties and fundamental freedoms have been jeopardized by a “government that has grown too large, spends too much money,” and as a result, is “interfering with their freedoms”.