The rise of the Libs and the Mods!

For a very long time Washington politics have centered on just two parties; the Democrats and the Republicans. Only recently has there been a viable contender for a third party. And yet, the so-called Tea Party has deigned to play that name game. They insist that they are not a ‘party’ so much as an idea. A collection of like minded people living and working as Moderates or Centralists or whatever the popular term of the moment exists that describes them the best. (After the fog is parted you have those who live on someone else's dime versus those who actually work for a living and who pay for the freeloaders).

[I would also like to clear the air, at this time, and proclaim that there are also two other parties in this great country. There’s the one going on in Washington where everything is all rosy and then there’s the one going on in the rest of the country where the word ‘hard’ increasingly describes the lifestyle of most.]

So, politically speaking, we all are either Liberals or we’re Moderates. That’s it! Individually, you either fall into a group of left or right extremists or you fall somewhere in the middle. Thoreau once wrote that ‘all things should be done in moderation’. (Words that have become the guiding principle of a hard working class of Americans who remain stubbornly moderate).

I’m reminded of a placard that is being currently circulated around the internet concerning the definition of what a Socialist, a Democrat, a Communist and a Liberal society does with its cows! 

While it was pretty funny, it also stings as there is a little bit of the truth in what is said. The United States is and will be forever a Republic or … it will cease to exist. It’s that simple and it’s fate will be the result of what happens in the next few years as the Libs lock with the Mods in mortal combat.