Dear Sir,

Someone forwarded your Teaparty Newsletter to me.  I appreciate you including a link to my article "A Party in the Dark".  I tossed off that article in frustration, but it seems to have resonated with Republicans across the district.  I have had replies about it from a number of people who were there.

My belief is that we as a party are going to have to get more inclusive.  We must hear many points of view.  It is true the majority rules, and should, but — and it is a strong but — the majority should not make its decision until it has heard from virtually everyone who wants to be heard.  Our leadership should encourage debate and discussion and not try to cut it off to get their own way.

The way it is done now only the minority of a minority get their say and way.  You will admit that the delegates to a district convention are already a tiny fraction of all the Republicans in the district.  Now five or six people, more or less, appoint themselves the officers (I certainly didn't have any say in that.  Did you?), and they decide what they want to do, and keep everyone else in the dark!  That means far from majority rule, it is not even rule by the minority.  The Greeks called it Oligarchy:  rule by a few.  And those few, by refusing to listen to what the rest of us have to say are not at all well informed.  That means idiots are ruling, and you know that is a recipe for revolution.

Let the Revolution begin.  Here we call it the Teaparty, and that is why so much of the Republican establishment try to act like we are creatures they don't want anything to do with.  We are  pure-bred registered Republicans, and full blooded Americans, so we aren't going to let a handful of self-appointed guardians of the sacred flame of Republican compromise, which has been worshipped for at least fifty years, stop us from turning the country around.

I guess I had better stop now, I don't even have a soap-box!

With all best wishes for a better America, and God bless the Teaparty.

James


James Duvall, M. A.
Big Bone University
Nec ossa solum, sed etiam sanguinem.
Big Bone, Kentucky