Speaking as a woman of a certain age, who has been privileged to see a great deal of change in her lifetime, the supremacy of the Tea Party will be occasion for me to actually leave this country. If I'm going to be told that I'm a second class citizen who can't think for herself because my gender makes me incapable of logic, then I'm perfectly happy to take my knowledge, my skills, and my demonstrably superior intellect elsewhere while I pursue a somewhat more Jeffersonian solution to the problem of the Tea Party and its mission of oppression. Revolution was not only contemplated as a future event by our Founding Fathers. They were wise enough to provide the blueprints on how to take our country back from future fundamentalist oppressors. Certainly, any group that would deny rights to anyone who isn't an older male of a specific religious persuasion and ethnicity counts as an oppressor, don't you think? Or did we just fight a war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda based on their fashion choices?
I won't argue that the current bipartisan party system is more than broken, but replacing it with oppression and backward thinking is not the answer. Perhaps it's time for the moderate voices to be heard again, or for us to stop electing lawyers to govern us.