Freedom

Yglesias on the myth of the Tea Party:

The freedom of the Tea Party or Jorg Haider or Geert Wilders or the fictional Jake Featherstone is a communitarian freedom, the freedom of the dominant sociocultural group to gets its way relative to cultural outsiders and reformers.

That sounds right to me.  "Freedom" basically means "what those in charge think freedom is." Should a woman have the freedom to make choices about her body?  Of course not, since old white men are in charge of dictating how things go.  Freedom is great when it's on your side, but it's pretty shitty when it's not.  And in America, we demand that the super-wealthy, white elite dictate what "freedom" is.

In their defense, those are the exact people who fought the American Revolution.  But then, The Tea Party would have to admit that the only reason we won was the French, so that will never happen.