Tea, Taxes, and the "Two Party" system.

Politically I lean conservative: Smaller government, less interference in our daily lives.  Sadly, in our two-party system, neither side represents this point of view.  Both parties use fear-mongering tactics in a power grab.

The Republicans use "the enemy without", Terrorists, Communists, people "out there" who aren't like us.  They want to grow the government, and reduce your rights, to protect you from external enemy.

The Democrats, on the other hand, employ "the enemy within" argument;  using class warfare to identify those "inside the country" who don't meet their societal ideal. They want to grow government and reduce your rights, in order to "right the wrongs" inflicted by the internal enemy.

Both parties are bankrolled by corporate and banking influences; their constituencies are not the American people they claim to represent. 

This is the theme of the Tea Party. They aren't first; there are also the Libertarians.

There are some who believe that the corporate backers are an international cabal, that controls not only the government but also our media and more essentially, our money supply; hence the Fed, the US Tax Code, and he national debt.

This is the theme of the Anonymous (Occupy) Movement.

I think it would be a mistake to ignore either point of view because it doesn't fit the two-party model.