American Studies: They want their country back

During past few days I’ve seen a repeated phrase on the different websites, “tea party”. I wanted to know how they are and what they want so I decided to read about it and then write a post on it. Killing two birds with one stone!!!

The Tea Party movement is a political movement in the United States that emerged in 2009 through a series of locally and nationally corresponding protests. The protests were against several federal laws like Obama’s health care reform. Its name echoes the Boston Tea Party of 1773 in 13 British colonies. The word party comes from 1773 incident and 2010 movement is not a political party, does not officially run candidates and its name will not appear on ballots. The movement does not have any national leadership.

The movement started by local protests in the early 2009 in response to new tax measures. In February 2009 the first national Tea Party protest was held in Chicago. The objectives of the movement include lowering tax, cutting back the size of government, reducing wasteful spending, reducing the national debt and federal budget deficit and adhering to the United States Constitution. The supporters of the movement are overwhelmingly white and Anglo, very conservative, opposed to illegal immigrants. The Tea Party members believe terrorism is a very serious threat to the nation's future well-being. They say most members of Congress don't deserve re-election and President Obama doesn't deserve re-election.

Protest is one of the key elements of the movement; there have been lots of protests across the U.S. Slogans also heat up the show:

“Just say NOBAMA!”

“Don't Expect Wicked Men to Pass Good Laws”

“You Will Fail! We Will Prevail! God Bless America!”

“God Has Given Us a Christian Nation”

“I, Too, Hope Obama's Ideas Fail!”

A commentator, explaining about media coverage of the movement, said that Fox News portrayed the protests as a big story, CNN as a modest story, and MSNBC as a great story to make fun of. Most Republicans support the tea party movement, Sarah Palin is considered as one of the leader of the movement

The Tea Party movement strongly favorites challenge status quo. They want a more stable country that does not offend her citizens’ fundamental rights. In coming days there would be Senate election probably the democrats lose Senate majority. Totally the rise of Tea Party invigorates the U.S. election and heats up the political environment of the U.S.