The Communist Manifesto was the result of Marx settling on workers as his universal class while seeking a real-world, flesh-and-blood application of his general philosophy.

However, Marx’s general philosophy isn’t limited to workers. It can be applied by activists across the political spectrum. Any group can adopt the mantle of the universal class. Indeed, Islamic radicals are a Marxist application and consider themselves to be the universal class. Which is why the Left and Islamic radicals oddly seem to conflict ideologically yet share fundamental common ground. Ideologically, they clash, but in their Marxist base and their common enemy, they are kin.

The modern political environment is Marxist. The game is the game. Again, Communism is just a particular application of Marxism. It behooves the Tea Party to learn and use the structures and methods of Marxism. Easy enough – they can learn them from activists on the Left.

It can be done. The Tea Party just needs to drop the ego and get serious about reprogramming America – educating the educators – with a real, prosletyzing populist movement. America needs the Tea Party to compete in earnest on the ground. If they do not outright win the game, then we need them to at least change the political environment.

Most of the time the GOP does what the Left tells them, either due to bribery, blackmail, or fear.

Well, only in so far as evil has something to suck energy out of, like a parasite, but they’ll keep humans as stock animals around long enough for that at least.

I have advocated that our local Tea Party should take the position that the mounting scandals in all areas just make self-evident the Tea Party position on small government. Forget Barack Obama – his incompetence is only a small part of the overall failure of centralized government to even perform its constitutional duties, much less the extensions being pushed by Progressives.

We had two small demos last Tuesday – at the IRS office in Miami and at Marco Rubio’s office there – with demonstrators dressed in black protesting the Amnesty bill that the Senate is engaged in passing while we are all distracted here.

I know what the Tea Party is. I case you hadn’t noticed, A “movement” is what the Tea Party claims to be and what America needs it to be, but it is not.

(No offense meant to my fellow females; I think you know what I mean.)

One of those Republican (former) governors, currently a senator, actually came right out and said he wasn’t aiming for any tax CUTS — that’s unrealistic! — he’s touting a “slower increase.”

Wanna suffocate fast or slow?

The GOP needs to change the frame, narrative, and the political climate. The problem is either they’ve accepted or agree with the Dems frame or believe they’re powerless to change it.

It’s an golden opportunity for the Tea Party to mount a high profile, high volume populist movement to change the frame, narrative, and national discourse, but the Tea Party has made the mistake of defanging itself by working ‘quietly’ through the GOP to elect candidates. It can do both, but the priority should be the populist movement. I don’t know that the right has adequate activists to compete with the left on the ground, though.