Your tea party answer is circular in extreme. Your answer is the premise is the answer...bla, bla. Your avoided point is that the TEA Parties were created in response to the same complaint you give as something against them. Perhaps you confuse them to be part of your legislature. In that case, we're back to 'why' to your 'why'.

Yes, you've covered it. The answer you didn't provide is that you prefer to jump from your frying into your fire.