{"id":319,"date":"2011-07-21T15:46:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T20:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/?p=319"},"modified":"2011-07-21T23:52:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T04:52:15","slug":"the-cultural-importance-of-the-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2011\/07\/21\/the-cultural-importance-of-the-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cultural Importance of the Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Following up on my post last week regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2011\/07\/14\/the-cultural-reasons-for-our-debt-crisis\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">cultural roots of our debt crisis<\/a>, today in NRO I addressed the Tea Party as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/272456\/cultural-importance-tea-party-david-french\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a cultural solution<\/a>. \u00a0It begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/272442\/reid-we-must-raise-taxes-andrew-stiles\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">rumors swirl<\/a> of a possible Obama\/Boehner deal, it\u2019s worth remembering that any agreement is but one skirmish in a long cultural war. Budget agreements made this year are renegotiated the next, and we have to settle in for a sustained conflict. At stake is nothing less than the relationship between citizen and state and the future of the American experiment. As the government has careened toward the model of a giant \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/02\/17\/entitlement-evolution-poses-threat-americas-finances\/print\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pension plan with an army<\/a>,\u201d it\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2011\/07\/14\/the-cultural-reasons-for-our-debt-crisis\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">not just Washington<\/a> that\u2019s broken. Entitlement programs have bred an entitlement mentality in our citizens, the creation of dependent classes of Americans who primarily view the government as providing benefits rather than protecting\u00a0<a id=\"itxthook0\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/272456\/cultural-importance-tea-party-david-french#\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">liberty<\/a> and preserving economic opportunity. Forty years of Great Society entitlements have had a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2011\/07\/07\/does-more-money-equal-more-compassion\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">negligible effect on poverty<\/a> but a maximum impact on our budget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/272456\/cultural-importance-tea-party-david-french\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on my post last week regarding the cultural roots of our debt crisis, today in NRO I addressed the Tea Party as a cultural solution. \u00a0It begins: As\u00a0rumors swirl of a possible Obama\/Boehner deal, it\u2019s worth remembering that any agreement is but one skirmish in a long cultural war. 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