What's the difference between the tea party and the republican party?

Here's the short, simple answer. The GOP establishment believes in the status quo. The Tea Party wants to restore our Constitution and Bill of Rights to their original meaning, before all those other stupid amendments and laws were adopted.

The Tea party includes some fed up Democrats and Independents. How many times are you going to post this rant?

Most of the establishment Republicans are not altogether different than Democrats. They focus mostly on re-election and compromising the crap out of everything their constituents believe in. The Tea Party is not a Party in the political sense of the word.

It is a mentality, a mindset. It is named after the Boston Tea Party, an event, or for lack of better words at the time, an actual celebration, a demonstration where they protested a new tax on tea. It wasn't the tax itself, but the process of taxation without representation.

The people expected to pay the tax had no say in political affairs. That was the cause of the original Tea party in the 1770's. The Boston Tea party, the word "party" meant celebration, not political group.

Like Birthday party. The current Tea Party mentality is one of smaller government. Of course, the powers in charge would like to have you think that anyone who believes in smaller government is insane.

If you don't want to pay 60% of your income in taxes, you are a crazy conservative. Jobs are shrinking by the millions, yet government jobs keep growing. WHo will pay for all those government jobs when nobody is left working "real" jobs?

That's what happened in Greece.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.