What Progessive Statists Can't and Don't Want To Recognize

All the confusion among liberal elitists about, and their attacks on the Tea Party movement come down, as this superb essay makes clear, to one very basic thing:

Those participating in and supporting the Tea Parties don't believe the Constitution is obsolete and they want government to be confined to the limits prescribed by that founding document.

This is too threatening to be dealt with by those who make up the progressive establishment. Therefore they cannot acknowledge or recognize the basic concept underlying the Tea Party movement . . . and adamantly cling to their willful refusal to do so. 

The last half dozen paragraphs of the linked essay should not be missed.