It appears the dominionist movement is using the Tea Party

If it can, of course.

We all know the Tea Party has been without a clear leader and direction for some while. The change in the TP's tone from the fixing of what needed to be fixed of its formation to now has been gradual, but today what we hear from them is increasingly fear and disrespect of a national government that is portrayed as their enemy, patriotism seemingly dead.

When the Tea Party formed without leadership and specific goal, DH and I speculated whether it would be taken over by money interests or the religious right. I guessed the latter given the Christian right involvement, but lost the bet to DH. The Koch brothers and others had a profound success by making what became a primarily social conservative group care about national budgets. 

Now, the wheel has turned to the point that there can be no mistake. The religious right is becoming dominant (as evidenced by the Koch brothers' need to disavow any connection to the economy-damaging government shutdown). Specifically, a dominionist religious right wing of the Tea Party intends to establish a Christian theocracy in place of our republican government. Google any prominent far right name with Tea Party and dominionism, Christian fascism, Christian Reconstructionism to see what turns up and hits are definitely more common than misses. Google the misses for religion and most of those will be Christian fundamentalist.

Very recently, Ted Cruz and the Texas Tea Party have endorsed David Barton, blatant right-wing Christian radio show host, for U.S. Senator from Texas (he hasn't said he'll run). If people still wonder about Ted's connection to these groups plotting treason, no one wonders about Barton's. He is a Christian dominionist, specifically endorsing Seven Mountain dominionism which plans to gain control of the seven mountains of national life

Business
Government
Media
Arts and Entertainment
Education
Family
Religion

to establish a theocratic government. We discuss only politics (government) on this forum. They've been busy for decades in the other spheres. That they've tread lightly on attempts to change entertainment (THAT would really get noticed and objected to) doesn't mean the same for state houses. 

Chris Hedges on what the Tea Party itself, or  its leadership, has increasingly become:

"I think that the wider public hasn’t grasped the ideological roots, nor the fact that the destruction of government – and they have found the weapon to do it – has long been part of their game plan, and is something that they rejoice in, rather than see as a temporary evil. They see government as something that, largely, has to be abolished, and they have found the weapon, the mechanism, to essentially do just that." 

We all see what have become relentless Tea Party claims that our government is a threat to liberty, never the guardian of freedom that our Founding Fathers meant it to be. We've all assumed the ramping up the angry tone and extreme comments was due to losing two national elections to the Democrats, but it's definitely time for all of us to look deeper.

Fellow Traveller