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If we from the 18 Century must use analogies are those that benefit from the Tea Party rather than British American rebel masters

When asked Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination, we might ask what it means for their own tea party midwest. In southwest Ohio, where I have born and raised mantra of low taxes and small government are the way to avoid discussing the challenges of globalization. Below this region 's triple soothing green corn, soybeans and forest trees of a floor which serves the world. Places like Clinton County, where my family has lived for two centuries, the American epicenter of an inspiring, but ruthless world economy. Global competition has made family farming here all but impossible, and the region 's sowing and reaping is now united by the mobile are in force high-tech farming factories ready. The workers no longer needed in the area found work in these parts of the international courier company DHL, which in the past ten years, Clinton County used as a domestic hub. As the parent company closed suddenly German Post DHL 's U.S. operations in 2008, 7,000 men and women lost their jobs.

Clinton County is a good example of what happens when tough global economy are not softened by the policy of national welfare. The county town, Wilmington has a population of only about 12,000. His company had already taken a beating from Wal-Mart and could hardly absorb the unemployed. Most of the 7,000 newly unemployed had health insurance through their jobs, and if they lost their jobs, they lost their coverage. Some ill or even died quite treatable conditions. Have been for the past two years, the headlines of newspaper stories from Wilmington through basement labs were used for the manufacture of methamphetamine, invoke the reporter dominated "meth." In the last few weeks has given to this as news of arrests of heroin dealers . Despite or perhaps because of their struggles, the farmers and workers from Clinton country by an overwhelming majority of Republicans.

When I first heard of Ohioans to participate in the "Tea Party" in 2009, I assumed that the name refers to the late afternoon political networking over scones. The people from my home state where I knew that she had participated with enthusiasm their luck much earlier, and were quite rich. When I noticed that the reference was to the 1770s American colonial tax revolt against England, I was speechless. As everyone should know by the Ohio 's public schools went to the American patriots of the day were not protest against the payment of taxes. They demanded of the government, that they be taxed, which is represented something entirely different. What American patriots was not against the tax itself, but taxation without representation.

Taxation without representation is not just a problem for rich Americans. They are from their local, state and federal elected officials represent. They are also represented by campaign contributions, lobbying and personal political access. Their problem, and the country 's is that they are over-represented, and use their strong representation to ensure that the rich pay less taxes than they do. If we analogies from the 18th Century must resort, then those who do not benefit from the Tea Party to be to the American rebels against. They tend to be the masters of the British Parliament, with superior political power to ensure that those in weaker positions to take the necessary tax burden.

Patriots pay their share. To refuse to do this in a moment of need, which is exactly what the Republican leadership has done over the course of negotiations on the national debt ceiling in July, leaving the nation, instead of serving her. The idea that the government should be starved of resources is not patriotism, it's right-wing anarchism, which not only corrodes the American state, but the American nation.

America is defined by its middle-classes, and they are there to stop. Belonging to the middle class means that without enormous wealth, you need not worry about the security of your pension be affected, the quality of your children 's training and the reliability of your family' s health. At this point, few people in Clinton County may say (in spite of some good public schools) that they are not concerned about this. The Dayton and Cincinnati suburbs were in the northwest and southwest of Clinton County, once strongholds of the middle class, now anyone in their right mind, who lives in these places, is also at least two and usually all three things to worry about.

Would order the kind of certainty that the Canadian or European welfare state offers its middle class, my high school friends in the southwestern Ohio to earn, by their own estimate, about $ 300,000 (£ 182,000) per year. They strive in this direction, but of course (in most cases, if not quite all) of not achieving them. A high school friend, a Republican from the cradle, which has never set itself over Ohio, told me he was thinking of emigrating to Canada. It would be an understatement to say that I never expected this to be heard. His problem was not that he thinks he pays too much in taxes. His problem was to avoid a debt ceiling that his opinion, the ones who should pay much more protected.

The Tea Party 's attempt to identify with the American colonies is just too funny, but the danger of mocking Midwesterners, their logic is like that they seem as exotic to come. It's hard not to smile, admit I 'll, at farmers who plant genetically modified seed six days per week and (like Michele Bachmann) deny evolution in seventh place. A church in Clinton County has a huge pink plastic replica of a horseshoe crab in his garden. Every so often Evel Knievel 's former bodyguard, he jumps on a motorcycle. The arthropods is a refugee from the Creation Museum in Kentucky, where he took his seat, was needed for a parking lot. The cancer is to prove that evolution never took place, has remained unchanged since its basic form.

You don 't have to look closely at the massive change zoological, that the area has visited to find. Farmers use these plows to trilobites to be found together with Indian arrowheads, and each visitor Caesar Creek Nature Preserve can be found brachiopods, bryozoans and horned coral in its exposed layers of limestone, as I had as a child and how my nieces and nephews in the past week. Clinton County was also home to the eminent historian of Victorian intellectual life, Frank Turner, a professor and provost at Yale University and director of the libraries. Among other things, Frank studied the influence of evolution on society. At Frank 's memorial service at Yale after his untimely death last year, recalled a man of his generation, the charm of the Midwest and the decline of Wilmington, his hometown. At Frank 's desire was the reading in the service from the "Origin of Species".

As Ohio goes, we say, so goes the nation. It seems to me that we go in both directions: to adapt or thrill of our own destruction. Clinton County has the plastic horseshoe crab, but also the memory of Frank Turner. Ohio has the world today 's Republican majority leader John Boehner, but Benjamin Franklin Wade, the Republican senator, the design of the 14th Amend the constitution helped. Wade 's determination that the U.S. national debt "is not in question \ be" has just been violated by Boehner. The Tea Party, in Ohio, as the whole nation has a strategy that will be found for adaptive, maladaptive when the country: tell those who suffer from Republican policy that anyone who wants to help them, an outsider. This summer, I saw for the first time I can remember, a confederate flag in front of an Ohio farm. Radical Republicans such as Benjamin Franklin Wade and liberal Republicans such as Frank Turner are quite extinct. The Democrats, here as elsewhere, are again forced into the position of the conservatives are not willing to preserve the Republic from the extreme right-wing anarchist believes that those who have wealth should not be taxed, and that those who do not should the Lord for the chaos that results thanks.

What we need is a truly patriotic stance, one that would explain to the voters, whatever their sympathies, that no American nation without an American middle class, and no American middle class without an American government that the essential services that people features allow up to a globalized world. What ever you think of the Tea Party 's Orwellian references to our revolutionary heritage, there' s no danger of a return to the 18th Century: if Ohio did not exist, and in the Midwestern economy depended on the Indian arrowheads of flint, the combined pass today under the wings of massive high-tech. The real danger is that we move forward expeditiously to national non-existence, misunderstanding of the clearest lessons of our own past on its way. At the time, the cost of achieving the right anarchism privileged, it will be too late for everyone else. If we 'find t one way, their own national thinking world situation to adapt before it's all happy that we can leave a trace of how fossils or arrowheads, or the mammoth tusk, which hangs on my grandmother' don \ s porch .