Yesterday U.S. Senator Lugar for the state of Indiana was
defeated by a tea party backed candidate. The senator had a 77% conservative record.
He had served for 36 years or 6 terms.
Conservatives across country including pundits said that the
citizens of Indiana wanted a new face representing them. The real reason is
because 23% of the times he compromised with the opposition. It is extremely unfortunate that somebody who
has a sense of governing, which includes finding middle ground with the people
who disagree with you, was defeated. We can say that the Republican Party has
been hijacked but we wouldn’t be saying anything new.
The approval of Congress is 8%, the lowest in its history.
Here is one of the reasons. The Tea Party is not interested in governing, in
having their citizens well represented. It is only in the business of creating
disruption and chaos. That is not governing. The US is on a rapid decline slope
because of reasons like this one, where a fringe of society, with the backing
of people who want to create instability, is not responding to the needs of its
people.
The Tea Party has confused the concept of governing, chaos
and bullying. For them everything is the same. Their methods are the ones of a totalitarian
system in which the will of some is imposed on the rest, like the Al-Assad family
is doing in Syria, and the Sunni minority is doing in Bahrain, and we know how
they these end.
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