Join or Die

These days the Tea Party is dividing our country up and using, or misusing the "Don't Tread on Me," snake from the American Revolution. George Washington would turn over in his grave at the thought of an anti-government movement using that slogan, since as soon as he became our first President he started using government to help the nascent country grow economically. But now the Coffee Party is proposing a new image and slogan from that ear -- also a snake but Ben Franklin's one:

This image originally appeared as a political cartoon in Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette. While it only showed 8 rather than 13 colonies it was meant as a call for the colonies to unite in action against the British. It was believed at that time that a snake cut apart could reunite itself.

The coffee party is right. It's time to pull our country together to solve our problems. Remember that Tea is not the America drink, we dumped that stuff. Have some coffee instead. The Coffee Party says stop obstructing, join together and use government to solve some of our problems. Accept our demographic changes and work with our immigrants. Have government work for us instead of for the corporations.

There is another slogan from the American Revolution: "We must hang together or we will surely hang separately."

Statement from the founder of the Coffee Party Movement:

Facebook, join the Coffee Party:

http://www.facebook.com/coffeeparty

Home page Coffee Party:

http://www.coffeepartyusa.com/

Wikipedia on our snake:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join,_or_Die