The Anti-anti-authoritarians
What are they afraid of?
See Update below.
I’m not a member of the Tea Party. For one thing, no coherent philosophy has emerged from its activities, which explains its grab-bag of positions, some good, some not so good. As a result, it’s not entirely clear what this collection of individuals fundamentally is for and against. Nevertheless, it is built around a concern that government and its “private sector” cronies wield an intolerable amount of power over our lives. They don’t like bank bailouts and health care bureaucracies, for example — so we can hope that it might evolve a consistent program in favor of voluntary association and against government intervention in our peaceful affairs.
It’s easy to point out flaws in the Tea Party. What is getting old quickly is the political elite’s criticism, which exhibits an intolerance and bad faith that it often attributes to the tea partiers. You don’t have to read too much of this criticism to see that the powers that be and their fawning admirers in the media and intelligentsia dislike one thing in particular: the movement’s apparent anti-authoritarianism. To be sure, at best it’s an imperfect anti-authoritarianism. For example, it doesn’t seem to extend to the military, despite America’s antimilitarist tradition and the fact that a major impetus for government control of the economy today is the national-security establishment! Other authorities — such as the ones responsible for the destructive “war on drugs” and the hounding of people who come to America without government permission — have also escaped Tea Party wrath.
But let that go for now. What’s noteworthy is that the movement’s anti-authoritarian tone has establishment statists so upset. They seem really worried that this thing could get out of control. Any legitimate criticism they may make of the Tea Party movement is undermined by their abhorrence with anti- authoritarianism per se. They are anti-anti-authoritarian.
“Streak of Anarchism”
“What’s new and most distinctive about the Tea Party is its streak of anarchism — its antagonism toward any authority, its belligerent style of self-expression, and its lack of any coherent program or alternative to the policies it condemns,” Jacob Weisberg writes in Slate. Note what’s first on Weisberg’s list.
“In this sense, you might think of the Tea Party as the Right’s version of the 1960s New Left. It’s an unorganized and unorganizable community of people coming together to assert their individualism and subvert the established order.”
I’m happy to see Weisberg acknowledge that the established order is not individualist. The political elite typically pretends the current system is free (“deregulated”) and individualistic in order to justify the expansion of power. Here’s a rare concession that it is not.
The “most extreme” faction in Weisberg’s eyes “would limit the federal government to the exercise of enumerated powers.” (So much for anarchism.) For him, limiting government power to a finite set of explicit responsibilities would be an intolerable setback. (Not that the Constitution actually does that.) Imagine how he would react to a movement determined to uproot the corporatist State.
Likewise, Mark Lilla, writing in the New York Review of Books, notes,
A new strain of populism is metastasizing before our eyes, nourished by the same libertarian impulses [!] that have unsettled American society for half a century now. Anarchistic [that word again] like the Sixties, selfish like the Eighties, contradicting neither, it is estranged, aimless, and as juvenile as our new century. It appeals to petulant individuals convinced that they can do everything themselves if they are only left alone, and that others are conspiring to keep them from doing just that.
Note the phrases “estranged, aimless, and as juvenile as our new century” and “petulant individuals.” Tea Party critics must enjoy this sort of psychological profiling. Tea partiers are also frequently described as angry. As a common-sense description, there’s nothing objectionable about that. Who wouldn’t be angry after being pushed around by big institutions over which one has no real control? But notice that advocates of the all-State never describe their allies as angry when they vote out their rivals for power. I suspect that “anger” is just another arrow in the psychologizers’ quiver, as if to say, “No need to listen to that guy’s complaint. He’s just angry.” Weisberg says tea partiers have “status anxiety.” Don’t you need a license to make such a diagnosis?
Lilla adds that “we need to see it [the Tea Party] as a manifestation of deeper social and even psychological changes that the country has undergone in the past half-century. Quite apart from the movement’s effect on the balance of party power, which should be short-lived, it has given us a new political type: the antipolitical Jacobin. The new Jacobins have two classic American traits that have grown much more pronounced in recent decades: blanket distrust of institutions and an astonishing — and unwarranted — confidence in the self.” (As opposed to a warranted confidence in the ruling class.)
He cites polls that show a majority of Americans don’t expect the government to act in their interest. They feel they have no voice in the halls of power. “As the libertarian spirit drifted into American life, first from the left, then from the right, many began disinvesting in our political institutions and learning to work around them, as individuals.”
Managing Without Them
Oh horror! Nothing offends the power elite as much as disinvesting in our political institutions and learning to work around them, as individuals. Do they fear that regular people might discover they can manage nicely without them?
The proof for Lilla is all the home-schooling going on! “What’s remarkable is American parents’ confidence that they can do better themselves,” Lilla writes. Better, that is, than the experts who have delivered the “public education” system we suffer in myriad ways.
Lilla implies that these are atomistic individualists. But they’re not. They’re what I call “molecular,” or communitarian, individualists — that is, individuals cooperating with others to achieve what the politicians promise but can’t deliver.
Here, apparently, is the Tea Party’s greatest offense: it resents the elites who presume to run their lives. How dare these know-nothings resist our good intentions and earnest efforts?
As I’ve said, the folks who identify with the Tea Party are far from consistent about this. Some of the contradictions are stunning. Still, it’s revealing that their critics are so concerned that through the Tea Party, anti-authoritarianism, anti-elitism, and anti-corporatism appear to be on the rise.
The elitist critics can’t imagine a good reason for people distrusting big institutions that have wronged them. But whose problem is that? Is it really so hard to fathom why people would be angry at government and other institutions, such as banks and corporations, that derive what power they have from government? Only someone who finds power attractive would have a hard time understanding that.
Those who wish to run their own lives in mutual association with others have no trouble understanding it at all.
UPDATE: Jesse Walker, writing at Reason’s Hit & Run blog, reminds me that the Jacob Weisberg quoted herein is the same Jacob Weisberg who pronounced “The End of Libertarianism” two years ago. His latest article fails to acknowledge that his report of libertarianism’s demise was premature. See my response here.
Comment by S Davidson on 24 September 2010:
Free government hands off trade sounds good when you aren’t asking the government to bail out the ones doing that trade. If its so good it should work either way. I for one believed it would have. We have bankruptcy laws and savings insurance in place for just such an occasion. The only thing the government bailout saved was huge bonus checks for those most responsible for the collapse. I never will buy the too big to fail argument. NEVER. Had they let them fail others would have emerged at pennies on the dollar and it would have been a lot worse quicker but it would have been done and over and a real solid recovery would now be well under way. The political solution guaranteed a very long period of high un and under employment.
I joined the Tea Party to protest our governments inability to get the business of the people done. I was told to let the old and vulnerable go 1st and that there would be plenty of flu shots to go around. I went unvaccinated as I watched many die. Now that the crisis is over there are plenty available. When the democrats said the Bush tax cuts would double the deficit Bush answered with a cute chart showing how we would grow by more than those cuts and they would more than pay for themselves. They doubled the deficit!!!! Now they want to continue them without replacing the lost revenue. Ie. fool me once…
I was against going to war in Iraq and Bush trotted out my idol Colin Powell and tricked him into lying to the world and he got my support. Now our economy has been sabotaged to support the ALL VOLUNTEER army that couldn’t get any volunteers with a healthy economy. Then along came the Alaskan token woman VP candidate that once banned books form a library and the Tea Party movement to bring the country back to balance was hijacked by the Republican party that is out of control. How could this movement have been so stupid to let Mrs. “we aren’t the party of NO, we are the party of HELL NO” McCarthy hijack a well meant and needed movement? I thought the Tea Party was for bringing the party’s together to solve our nations problems not drive new deeper wedges.
Just as any good career politician would do the republicans took a survey and yesterday issued a new decree espousing the results of the survey as their promise to america. Promises only count before elections from the we’ll do anything career politicians that want to be reelected. The bottom line is no matter how off the mainstream the throw the bums out candidates may be (ie witchcraft, etc.) they are better than the proven failures.
Comment by R.H. Crofton on 24 September 2010:
The Tea Party exist because a lot of people are recognizing that the government (both state and federal) need a massive and very fundemental overhaul but they don’t know what to do. The Republicans and Democrats continually con the public into believing that the other party is responsible for the mess. IT’S THE SYSTEM. It needs to be changed radicially. The question is does the public have the stomach for the change. Entire herds of scared cows would have to die e.g. the consoldiation of some states. I doubt we will ever see a leader or leadership from a party to get this done.
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Comment by vinnie on 24 September 2010:
The only question that needs to be asked is “Who owns you?”. If you own yourself, unless you intentionally harm someone else, you have the liberty to lead your life as you see fit and to be left alone to do as you please and enjoy fully the fruits of your labor and productivity.
If you don’t own yourself then who does own you? How did this come about? Did you contract away your liberty? Then show the contract. Show who it is that owns you and by what right and authority they claim you as their property and means to their ends.
Comment by Karen on 24 September 2010:
Fantastic assessment of the elite reaction — they are shaking and shivering because the Tea Party spirit is is indeed young and fresh — just like the child who observed that the emperor has no clothes. And the real number of people who are living under, above, around and outside the state is far greater than we know. It’s good practice, we’re getting better, smarter, and faster, and boy oh boy is the ruling class seriously scared. One question — if they ignore our complaints because we are angry, can we ignore their complaints because they’re terrified?
Comment by Eben on 24 September 2010:
A friend was overpaid by Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Fund, though he was told to keep on electronically filing. 4 higher-ups were on a phone conversation of over an hour attempting to figure out how this event could occur. Resolved, he should keep on applying, PA would withhold 1/3 of the payment until PA was paid back ALL OVERPAYMENTS. To date, PA has recalled ALL PAYMENTS to date. Will his complicity in resolving the state vs. federal problem ever benefit this individual? News reports now show that PA now owes the Federals 6 million or billion to date.
Comment by Larry L. Stuler on 24 September 2010:
To understand the government’s seemingly unending encroachment of control over Americans, it is necessary to learn the underlying jurisdictional basis from which the government is proceeding.
The Founding Fathers fought to establish a country based upon individual sovereignty and wrote the Declaration of Independence. The main principle is stated succinctly – “all men are created equal”.
The Founding Fathers fought to adopt the Constitution that would establish a government that would uphold the rights of the individual sovereign.
Which of the Founding Fathers would have run to the nanny State for any kind of insurance or “benefits”. NOT ONE !!
Americans now run to the government for Social Security – the government that had absolutely no nexus with the individual sovereign. Americans gave away their sovereignty by asking for a nanny State.
The Constitution only granted the federal government certain enumerated powers, and, due to the principle that “all men are created equal”, only granted the federal government jurisdiction over foreign commerce, interstate commerce, and trade with the Indians (Article I, section 8). Since the principle of “all men are created equal” is at the base of our government, the Constitution could not grant the federal government any jurisdiction over intrastate commerce – our individual freedom is based upon that.
Then we Americans threw our sovereignty away. How, you ask? We went running to the federal government for an insurance program and health benefits.
The federal government had no way to offer any such program to sovereign Americans, since it has absolutely no jurisdiction over the sovereign individual and no jurisdiction over any intrastate commerce, so it created Social Security. The “Form SS-5” that an applicant uses to apply for a S.S.# is actually a federal employment form. You gave away all sovereignty by becoming a federal employee – the “taxpayer”. “Taxpayer” is a legal term defined at 26 CFR 2.1-1(a)(5) as a member of the Merchant Marine. At 26 CFR 2.1-1(b) it states that this is the definition of the term as used throughout the Code and the regulations for all calculation of taxes.
Tell me, which of the Founding Fathers would have gone running to the nanny State for any kind of insurance or benefits? NOT ONE OF THEM!! The Founding Fathers fought to set up a country and a government based upon individual sovereignty and we Americans turned around and asked this government for benefits.
The Merchant Marine is involved in foreign commerce, so now the government is no longer chained down by the limits of the Constitution.
FICA and the self-employment taxes are U.S. possession taxes (see 26 USC §7655) – the federal government was granted jurisdiction over its possessions by the Constitution (Article IV, section 3).
Once the New Deal was done, every federal regulatory agency that exists today was bound to come into being. Nowadays a lot of people are clamoring for help – everyone needs something. Well, the government is just pleased to help you as one of its employees. But as an employee, you have absolutely no say in where the money will be spent, nor who will receive the benefit.
All regulatory government is based upon the threat, or even the actual initiation, of force – something that the federal government can only do under foreign commerce and over its own employees. Regulatory government is basically a form of Socialism. Americans cannot fix Socialism by voting.
Do you really want to restore American sovereignty? Abolish Social Security, return everyone’s money, with interest, and then you’ll have your sovereignty. Otherwise, just keep asking the federal government for “benefits”.
I have exposed the entire Social Security Scam on my Blog at LLSTULER.wordpress.com with the actual statutes and regulations that evidence everything states here.
Comment by ernelewis on 24 September 2010:
Vinnie
I just published a novel on term limits that makes precisely your point. “I own me” is the phrase my libertarian revolutionary makes before committing an act of self-defense.
Comment by David Beadles on 24 September 2010:
Ironic that the liberal elites who seek to do so much good for the “people” are so quick to allow their arrogance and condescending attitudes show through their pretensions of concern for the common hard-working people. Obama’s infamous comment about the frustrated people who bitterly cling to their guns is a perfect example.
How often in history have we seen tyrannies rise on the mantra of concern for the common people? The ones who seek to do the most good end up doing the most harm.
Comment by George Schwappach on 24 September 2010:
Sheldon,
You’ve made some good comments about the tea party, but I sense that much of your experience is in reading reports about tea party events. I’ve been there, and I can tell you, the tea party IS doing something that I have been struggling with for 30 years! They are discovering libertarians!
My work at tea party events has involved the OPH quiz (www.theadvocates.org ). For 25 years, I have asked the quiz taker, “Are you a Democrat? A Republican? A libertarian, or you just don’t want to say”. I do this to assign a color for their quiz score. Well, in the last 18 months, I have seen the percentage of those who say “well, I suppose I lean more towards libertarian” go from 3% to 25% at tea party events.
What’s happening is that these people are getting serious education on libertarian philosophy. They read blogs, and get daily emails that include writers like Hornberger and you. And the good news is, many are converting. This is, quite possibly, the most exciting libertarian movement of my lifetime.
Sure, not ALL tea party people are becoming libertarian, but the numbers who are is phenomenal. This last April, working to organize the Tax Day Tea party protest in Tampa, we had some committee members who wanted to include ‘kill the Arabs, stop Sharia Law’ speakers on the program. The number of activists who contacted me in opposition was amazing. Three years ago, everyone would have gone along.
And the sentiment on immigration and ending American Imperialism is similar. Although they are not the majority, there are many Tea Party people who have a libertarian view on this. And as to ending the war on drugs, I’ll bet the notion to do so is in the majority.
I work with the tea party because I believe that, in the end, it will evolve down to smaller but more cohesive small government movement. We will make serious changes in America.
When I can sit at a lunch table with 7 Tea Party activists who are all over 65, and one woman says “they should just end social security”, and all 6 others agree with her, that is significant. The world has changed a lot in 20 years since I was handing out ‘Separating School & State’ to anyone who would take one.
George Schwappach
Comment by Sheldon Richman on 24 September 2010:
George, this is great to hear. I hope it’s generally true throughout the country.
Comment by Mitche Leigh Hunt on 24 September 2010:
Good Job George! It is wonderful to know you, with your energy, intelligence, and open mind and heart and mouth, are out there working within the Tea Party movement, carrying on the libertarian writers’ works — such as Sheldon’s phenomenal output — which some of us are unable to do. I think about how I opted, in the late 1970s, to become a libertarian. At the time I did it for no other reason than I could no longer be a Conservative Republican, and becoming a Democrat was out of the question. I’m making the point that I had no actual, thought-out motive to become a libertarian; I just was running in from out of the cold. Therefor, I had no idea I would get the most valuable 30-year education of my life from FEE, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and The Independent Institute — and I have been formally educated in just about everything through a MS in Language Arts. As an American, I am so grateful that I am a Libertarian-American, who no longer must live a life of total political confusion!
Comment by David B. on 24 September 2010:
I, for one, have been getting involved with the tea parties too. I have noticed a great opening for the libertarian philosophy and its consistency in thought. Many are starting to get educated on their own thanks to so many sites like FEE and Mises. I will even admit I have gone from somewhat of a socialist sympathizer, to a neocon, to libertarianism and it has taken me from about 2005-current to finally come to this conclusion. With the vast amount of regular contributions from yourself Mr. Richman, others, and all the material available to us at no monetary cost, it provides fertile grounds for a real education and real change. It is no easy task and never will be but I see people opening up from both in and out of the Tea Parties. I have basically devoted all my free time into studying economics, history, and libertarian philosophy. I love this stuff and will keep spreading the message of liberty.
I am also glad to see others’ comments. I find myself agreeing with much of what they say. Mitche, I agree entirely. In my online classes (for business economics), I incorporate the economics and philosophy for as much as I can. I have learned more outside than inside but I am going for that expensive piece of paper that comes afterwords.
I seen this quote before but I happened upon it again so…
“The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher. They are nothing less than the future of human liberty, which means the future of civilization.” – Henry Hazlitt
Comment by 胡志成 on 24 September 2010:
“who no longer must live a life of total political confusion”
@Mitche Leigh Hunt
I love you.
Comment by Thom on 25 September 2010:
The Tea Party is an anomoly. It is hard to define but definitely demands a reduction in the size of government, its spending and interference in The People’s lives. I agree that it does not generaly follow classic liberal lines with regards to the War on Drugs and a few other topics.
As the Republican Party is not too far from many of the policies of the polictical left, it will be interesting to see if the GOP accepts the demands of the Tea Partiers or seeks to be the same party that they are today and hope the Tea Partiers join them.
Overall, I think the Tea Party is a very good start down the right path.
Comment by Tim on 25 September 2010:
the “update” points us to Weisburg’s “End of Libertarianism” piece, something Weisburg has apparently forgotten. At first I thought this was an intriguing absence. Then I read Sheldon’s response to that earlier article. Weisburg is apparently not interested in evidence. This discovery would seem to explain why Weisburg neglected to mention his own previous pronouncement of time of death. he is not interested in evidence, so like a jury with a guilty verdict in its pocket, successful defence merely leads to a new round of charges. Weisburg didn’t seem to comprehend the economic arguments made by libertarians, so now he has descended to pop psychology and amateur sociology. the next stop will most surely be flag waving.
Comment by Stephen on 25 September 2010:
Who the heck are you guys? I just stumbled on this site. Sheldon Richmond says he’s not a member of the tea party. S Davidson said he “joined” the party. There is no “party” to be a member of or to join. You over-educated pseudo-intellectual gobbledygook spewing arm-chair politicos need to put the 30 year single malt scotch back on the shelf, take off your smoking jackets and spend 2 weeks on a construction site somewhere.
Comment by Sheldon Richman on 26 September 2010:
Stephen, gosh, you do take things literally, don’t you? Have you considered that we were using “member” and “join” metaphorically? Or must one indulge in single-malt scotch (which I don’t) to understand the metaphorical nature of language?
Comment by Kevin Carson on 26 September 2010:
Weisberg and Lilla illustrate the dark heart of 20th century liberalism at its most managerialist and authoritarian. Unlike “progressivism,” of which old-style liberalism is a major component, their old-style liberalism is utterly untinged by even the faintest tint of decentralist greenwashing. They would see people like Ivan Illich and Colin Ward as enemies at least as much as they do the Tea Partiers.
Comment by Phil Lewis on 26 September 2010:
I find much of the commentary to be interesting … the tea party movement has evolved into a somewhat libertarian entity … but, misses the elements of non-militarism and aversion to excessive international involvement. While I cannot embrace all of the tea party “stuff” … I like the revolutionary fervor that is fulminating. The USA was born of a revolution and the corrupt politicians and “fellow travelers” will eventually face a new revolution. It’s just a matter of time. Hopefully, the revolution is peaceful … one never knows when the power of thought is finally released.
Comment by Libertarian jerry on 27 September 2010:
I’ll start taking the Tea Party movement seriously when it’s members start burning their Social Security cards.
Comment by Joe on 27 September 2010:
Well when people burned bras and draft cards…
Comment by Freemom on 28 September 2010:
Read “Starfish & Spider” – which was written in 2006 before the advent of “TEA parties” – but it explains the TEA party movement. The elite will never “get it.” I AM a TEA party person.
Comment by David of Pennsylvania on 28 September 2010:
What the left isn’t getting here – is that the Tea Party IS a grassroots movement! Of course they can’t define it clearly, because it has no organized definition. It is comprised of people who are ‘Fed-up’; who have had enough of Big Brother and want the chains shrugged off.
Each agree on one thing – the greatest threat to the United States today … is the United States Government. It has become a roiling cauldron of a money pit and must be brought back down to a reasonable and constitutional size.
I am also not a member but I support their efforts. I will do everything necessary to resurrect my country.
Comment by michael on 28 September 2010:
I find the Tea Party simply an extreme of what has been here all along: Patriotism. How can patriotism be extreme? Well, we can suggest that to become a patriot, one must utterly abhor it’s government. Yet, the government should be of, for, and by the people. yes?
I am grateful to the Tea Party as one segment of life that has been instrumental in awakening me from my slumber. So thank you and God bless you.
I am not sold on the Libertarian Ideal of Strict Constitutionalism. For example, it has been my contention that a progressive attack against God has influenced the interpretation of Church, State, and God’s place within each. As the Federalist Papers and other writings clearly indicate: God established this document more than man. For as Jefferson, I believe, once said, “man could not have created such a government. Thus, it must be of God.” (Not direct quote.)
As each state charter proves, God is the head of all, meaning: God is the final authority for all policy.
Libertarians would place our country in even greater peril as they would not recognize God in government (at least this is my opinion based on direct conversation). Thereby, morality, already sinking into the abyss of self gratification and interpretation, would eventually be relegated to matters outside policy.
In that event, God could remove his hand from our nation thereby creating a humanist and secular society in total. Look where that has gotten the world? Look at the UK, France, Norway, Denmark, Germany. Look and see how they are quickly losing their identity, their peace, their culture. Look what the Muslim, for example, is doing to destroy each society. The same would happen here for there would be no guidelines, no borders, no real consensus of who we are.
Another problem is that of national security. Sometimes, the best defense is a good offense. The theology of ignoring the world around us, as many libertarians seem to adhere to, is a grave mistake. 200 years ago, that was perfect theology. Not so today. For today, an enemy can wipe you out from 2000 miles away. No longer must ships sit in our harbors to indicate war.
That’s it for now. Much more to discuss if interest peaks.
Comment by DirOfTheObv on 28 September 2010:
The Tea Party isn’t really a THREAT…not in an “all caps” kind of way…
If it were, no one would say anything about them…like the cartels down in Mexico.
Comment by Gerard Bendiks on 28 September 2010:
At this point any ruckus is good. If it bothers the Masters then there is good in that.
Comment by Phil Lewis on 28 September 2010:
Michael is not a Constitutionalist … not many 21st century citizens are. Politicians have reinvented and massaged the Constitution and greatly diminished its impact. This is not positive. Our founders possessed the genius of designing a very durable and innovative form of government. It worked for a long time … and now we’re looking at the tyrannical attacks … the striving of progressives to turn the USA into a different form of governmental entity. Government was invented as a control force … a means to control anarchy and criminality. Now, we have allowed our elected political controllers to unleash a level of regulation and meddling far beyond the control needed to manage lawlessness. Politicians desire to fleece us, loot the economy and through organized corruption destroy our economy and the well being of the citizenry. Corrupt, organized looting … alias for progressive government.
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Comment by LibertyandJusticeforall on 5 October 2010:
The “small government” aspect of the TEA Party is almost totally a smokescreen. Just like their fake Christianity (that Hornberger points out on a regular basis) is exposed by the sheer delight with which the greet the rape, torture and murder of tens of thousands of innocent women and children in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia…
As soon as you take away their passion for hurting the bodies of darker skinned ethnic groups they no longer care for limited government at all
Who owns theses Afghani children?? Who owns the oil of Iraq?
What kind of fake libertarians are these violent, militarist racist liars who have never spent one moment of their supposed Christian and Constitutional lives caring for the innocent victims of our militaristic foreign policy…
They are just another symptom of uber-statist America sinking into the moral abyss…
Anti-war or Pro-tyrannical Big Government, there is no other and the Tea partiers are 90%+ racist liars who love dead Muslim kids.
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