An Invitation to a Tea Party

It was a few months ago that I was invited by a friend of mine in a Bible study group to a Tea Party get together. Let's call my friend, Tommy. He's a good guy. He talks the truth to me. I was excited by the Tea Party get together since I am a Neoconservative and we necons are supposed to support the Tea Party as the bright light of the conservative party. Tommy and I met at a Dunkin Donuts and he drove me to the restaurant where the Tea Party people were supposed to meet. It was a typical restaurant with burger specialties. We chatted as we waited for the other people to show up and I was bored. There was a good-looking college girl dating a college guy next to our table and she kept on winking at me. It was obvious she was bored and she wanted to start a fight. I played along for a while, then got bored and stopped looking at her. I think my friend Tommy was amused.

Finally, one Tea Party member arrived. She wouldn't sit at our table. She was wondering who I was. I think I was the first Asian she had ever met in her life or something. During the course of the dinner, she studied me as if she wondered how I formed these perfectly grammatical sentences from my mouth. She literally could not stop staring at me. It didn't help that I liked to say shocking things. I implied that I was gay. I looked at her as shockingly as she looked at me. Is this what Tea Party'ers were like. Next, a Jewish woman came in. She had some sense like most Jews. We talked about politics. I expressed my concern about all this money that was supposedly going to foreign countries but never made it there. Also, all this money that was supposed to be going to the foreclosure crises and never made it there. I ventured to say that the government must literally be printing money later and using the money now to pay back debt or other things. A Tea Party politician entered.

Now, I was expecting someone just a little bit substantial. When he started talking about police violence against white people, I almost dropped my jaws. I read about police indifference from Saul Bellow. I've heard of police violence against blacks. I've personally been the victim of police indifference toward crimes against Asians. The police do nothing if there's theft at my store. Of course, the jails are overfilled already, BUT when I heard police violence against white people and that this is what it takes for PEOPLE to take action against a police force that does what? I REALLY HAD TO TAKE A BREATHER. I managed to put on a blank face. After all, he was a politician. I just can't tell the difference between a politician and a shaman these days. All you need is a certain tone of voice that commands trust and sympathy to be a politician. I can't remember another thing he said the whole night. My mind literally blanked out. BUT THEN, it occurred to me. There is a danger in the Tea Party Movement. This movement can easily be hijacked by the Fascists from the libertarians.

After the dinner, we drove over to a Yom Kippur War presentation at a synagogue. The presentation was pretty good. Many Jews there were soldiers from the war. I like the way soldiers speak, simply and bluntly. He felt that God had deserted the Israelites? Did he mean that England and America had deserted Israel? Can God really desert you unless you deserted God? They won the war? Hadn't God given them victory using the tactics of ancient Greece and Alexander the Great?

There were faces of women there that had a joy in sorrow and that was very uplifting.

Sometimes I think God may have really deserted the Jews. It's clear that God has abandoned the Tea Party. The Arrogance of mediocre Americans is so commonplace. The arrogance of actually capable Americans must have burned a thousand bridges. There are still honorable Americans I meet here and there, but most Americans leave a bad taste in my mouth.