How to fight the Tea party

Any one who knows history knows that the semi Libertarian/ tea party agenda has already been tried in this country. It was called the 19th century and it was bad enough that our nation united to pass the Progressive legislation that gave us child-labor laws, inspected food ( how ever imperfectly) and what Natural , protected land as exists in our national parks and monuments. We had an activist Supreme Court that struck down any law passed that helped workers until Roosevelt forced some sense into it with his court packing plan. Would the Tea activist argue it was better then? I think for women, Blacks, First Nations and anyone who worked 18 hours a day in the factories with no safety net if one got injured, it was maybe not the good old days.

One fundamental divide

I am always interested in the deeper assumptions that inform ideology. One i have noticed is an attitude toward killing. The left either has the illusion that violence is not a fundamental form of human communication or ( this was more true in the USA in the 20th Cent) deaths can be excused if they are part of a struggle for liberation or a struggle to make the world more equitable. The Right seems to think that these motivations are among the worst. Until the rise of Bush II Rightism was anti-utopian. Deaths occurring in the pursuit of national glory or profit are acceptable collateral damage. Death from a struggle for liberation ( excepting of course the bourgeois revolution of the US) is dangerous and sinful. The attitudes of the Left toward violence would make a good study, though the first obstacle is definition: who is Left. the Right seems to have fewer conflicts about which deaths are acceptable.