Do you think Ronald Reagan would have joined the Tea Party if it had existed 30 years ago?

ANYTIME a single group holds the rest hostage as the Tea Party memebers in Congress has done, it is EXACTLY the same as the actions taken in BOTH Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany. The continued acitons of the Tea Party as being obstructionistic to the needs of the people in general ie putting people back to work, supporting energy independence, Proper liberty for women to direct their own health care.

The Tea Party/Republican Party has with the help of the religious right (exactly as happened in Italy and German with the RCC) ie the RCC + the evangelical groups are demanding the inclusion of religious dogma, doctrines and beliefs be put into our laws and Constitutions. This is the WORST type of Fascism in that in a Representative Constitutional Republican where specific basic human civil rights are guaranteed by the Constitution, the vote of a majority could even begin to be considered when aimed directly against those basic civil rights and minorities within the country.

Remember, the Nazi's and Fascists did exactly that once the took full control of the government. Currently we have a war on women's rights to care for their own health decisions without the imposition of religious objections to birthcontrol. The massive actions against the "basic human civil right" to the "civil contract of civil marriage" by religious groups against the minority of homosexuals in this country is a blatant attack on a minorities civil rights.

James Madison made the following observation on the reason we had to have enumerated basic civil rights written into our US Constitution.

“In our Government it is, perhaps, less necessary to guard against the abuse in the executive department than any other; because it is not the stronger branch of the system, but the weaker. It therefore must be leveled against the legislative, for it is the most powerful and most likely to be abused, because it is under the least control. Hence, so far as a declaration of rights can tend to prevent the exercise of undue power, it cannot be doubted but such declaration is proper.

But I confess that I do conceive that in a Government modified like this of the United States, the great danger lies rather in the abuse of the community than in the legislative body.

The prescriptions in favor of liberty ought to be leveled against that quarter where the greatest danger lies, namely, that which possesses the highest prerogative of power.

But it is not found in either the executive or legislative departments of Government,

but in the body of the people, operating by the majority against the minority.”

NEVER DOES THE MAJORITY HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO REMOVE BASIC CIVIL RIGHTS OF A MINORITY. NEVER.