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Almost a decade after his death, former US President Ronald Reagan still looms large over American politics with many current battles over America’s debt, taxation, and the size of government being fought in his name. Through revealing interviews “The Party of Reagan” explores how the Republican Party’s increasing conservatism and the emergence of the Tea Party movement has contributed to the most partisan and least productive period in US political history.

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What about the Democrat’s increasing liberalism adding to the most partisan and least productive period in U.S. political history?  What about the fact that both sides are involved with the least productive period in U.S. history.

I thought the Tea Party was over, a flash-in-the-pan, and not an actual movement.  At least that was the way it was depicted by a lot of the media.

So a non-movement caused so much problem.  A movement that supposedly ceased to exist is still causing problems.  The group that was branded a threat, potential Timothy McVeighs, the American Taliban, and raaaciiiist.  The Tea Party being so unimportant they were singled out by the I.R.S. for closer scrutiny.  You know, because of all the evidence of the Tea Party being violent, and racist.

Occupy Wall Street?  According to the media, mostly peaceful, except when there was violence.  Violence at Occupy [Fill in the blank] was always reported as isolated incidences.

A Klansman shows up to a Tea Party rally, he is publicly shamed into leaving.   That video I am now having a difficult time finding, when it used to be easy to find.  The video was used by some media as proof that the Tea Party is racist – failing to acknowledge he was shamed into leaving the event.

Violence by Union members at a Town Hall event against a vendor who was selling both Democrat & Republican buttons, and stickers etc. because he dare sell Republican items.  If it had been Tea Party members doing the attacking do you think they would have been convicted in court?

I am tired of the hyperbole on most issues from both sides, but the hyperbole from the left is usually the most vicious, often times completely unfounded, cruel, mean-spirited,  and lends nothing to the debate.

If you  blog and can’t resist the urge to call people Libtards, Tea Baggers, etc. etc.  I am not likely to visit your blog very often.

The divide between Americans is something some folks in power want.  It is how they maintain power and control.  They don’t want to solve many of the issues.

When it is clear to the average man and woman, that little gets solved no matter who is in office, you get a divide between all the people mostly around the basic ideas of big government VS small government, and the role of government.  Nothing to do with race, nothing to do with religion, nothing to do with anything but the cause of freedom, and liberty.

When people banter around the idea that the constitution is somehow not relevant to today, some take offense to that notion.  Some might even say, “thems fightin’ words.”  Violence should always be a last resort.  I think most people feel the same way.

Most are willing to fight within the system, but if the system is constantly being threatened, or deemed archaic, things will break down.  If the system is rigged, it could lead to violence.

I sure hope we can actually come together and solve many of our issues within the system.  I am not a fan of chaos, violence, anarchy,  street justice, and whatever else a collapse of our system of government could lead to.

During the latest I.R.S. scandal the question was asked, “How do we restore trust in the I.R.S.?”  My question is, when did we ever trust the I.R.S.?  How do we restore trust in our government?  When did we ever trust the government?

We need government, but you should always have a healthy bit of skepticism with whatever the government does, and we should always question it.

This questioning of the government used to mean speaking truth to power,  and was understood as something you could do without fear of harassment from the government itself.  It was  something that used to be considered patriotic, but now being patriotic gets you closer scrutiny –  especially if you proclaim yourself a patriot in a title.

It is the same with how the term militia has been warped into meaning something negative, often equated with being the same as a terrorist group, and of course racist – noting that terrorist groups that want to wipe out the Jews never seem to be branded racist.  So if you are in a militia, you are even worse than a terrorist because you’re raaaciiiist.  Never mind that militia groups are not in the news daily for killing, or blowing up innocent people over religious, cultural, or race differences.

But what do I know?  I’m just an average guy with a blog.