The letter “Pilgrims forced to get along” from Faye Van Vleck Spratley and the op-ed “Americans should be thankful for an amusing year” by George F. Will, which appeared on facing pages in Thursday’s Dispatch, was irony almost too delicious.
Add Spratley to the amusing, but disturbing, list of folks whose group-think addiction approaches disbelief.
It is clear the tea party became a political force in the 2010 elections largely because Democrats, in 2009, refused to reach across the aisle and instead passed Obamacare by manipulating the rules so that they would not need a bipartisan vote.
Thus, the tea party is the reaction to uncompromising politics, not the cause of it. Using a feel-good story about the Pilgrims to sell a false narrative of blame is not the way to begin to fix a dysfunctional federal government. Assuming, of course, that is one's true intent.