and those that want individual liberty.  

with the so-called "moderates" either caught in the middle lights a deer in the headlights or those who want to milk the status quo.

That does a good job of summing up a one sided view of the past decades. . . .

But as a one sided view normally does, it totally ignores its own culpability in matters. For example, it makes no mention of Obama’s role in the Iraq; no mention of what happened in the past 5-1/2 years and how it contributed to the present situation. At best, Obama’s actions, in an effort start the pendulum swinging back to the less militarized stance, did nothing to stop this from happening. At worst it caused it to happen.

It seems odd but a closer look at the far left (my partisanship showing I guess) viewpoint of the established Democrat party and the Tea Party movement’s view of the established GOP, shows they share a common goal, to release us from the stranglehold of federal government power. Our eventual policies may be at odds but we presently share a common opponent, the status quo.

Changing the channel from war to Wall Street, why haven’t any real changes been made since “the Collapse”? Why hasn’t anyone gone to jail? The established GOP is too tightly intertwined with the Wall Street power and then they convince themselves that the process of repairing it would be too devastating to the economy.  The Democrats (while just as tightly intertwined if not more so with Wall Street Power) is afraid to go down any path that works toward restoring the public’s confidence in free enterprise. Doing so would work against their desire to make people more and more dependent on the federal government for perceived security (case in point – Dodd-Frank). So as a result, neither established party wants to make substantive changes to the system. The Tea Party movement does though and so does for example, Occupy Wall Street except one wants to fix it while the other wants to destroy it.  

A common mistake is that the Tea Party movement gets labeled as far right (not a mistake by some since their goal is to destroy it). There is a large moderate conservative community that agrees with most of the Tea Party movement; just as there is a large moderate liberal community that feels unable to change the status quo of their established side. The two should find a way to work together. Maybe some State initiated Constitutional amendments are in order

And with most of the country still fighting over red and blue stuff, the criminals are getting away with taking our planet further down a destructive path for their own profit. Kinda reminds me of a rugby game: a bunch of guys get tangled up in the scrum and most don't even notice when the ball pops out and someone's running half way down the field with it!

People need to realize that this ceased being a right or left, red or blue issue long ago. When people can clearly look through a nonaligned lens at what's going on, they'll realize that criminals have been in charge for a while. And their only alignment is with profit from death and destruction. Now look at our warpath: Russia, Iraq again, Africa (35 different countries!)... More profit for them, more death and destruction for the rest of us.

I say "most" have because I feel I've been on the right side if the facts for all if the war stuff. I was played, however, in voting for Obama in 08 because I believed in "change". Turns out he's worse than his predecessor. I admit I drank the kool aid. But it didn't take me long to realize what a terrible mistake I'd made.