Tea or Coffee?

Yes, it makes no sense at all. Why would the United States ever have a political party named after "tea" which is a beverage that we don't really drink all that much anymore, especially with all this fake-tasting artificial stuff. There is also coffee, soda, etc. Americans probably drink more coffee than tea statistically speaking although there are those individuals who prefer tea. It's a personal thing, we understand. However, our fortunes here in the U.S. were never based on the production of tea. It was the British Empire and its colonies whose fortunes more often depended on the production and consumption of tea. Neither were the fortunes of the U.S. ever based on the production of coffee. Latin America is where the coffee is grown. Obviously the Latins probably would not be friends of the Mormons who often abstain from drinking coffee for religious reasons. Here in the U.S. we are only the consumers of tea and coffee. We are expected to drink coffee or tea or something until it comes out our ears and yet we get no profit from that. Here in the U.S. we are blessed with the best agriculture in the world, our farmers keep our grocery stores abundantly supplied with vegetables, corn, wheat, etc., and yet we are expected to have a political party dubiously named after the British cash crop "tea." Would not the "tobacco" party sound more American? But then the U.S. Surgeon General would have objections. If we had a "coffee" political party it could also perhaps be alternately named the "Hispanic Race" political party but then that would sound sort of racist. So why would we have a Tea Party either? And who are these mysterious "Tea Party" activists? British colonialists who want us to buy more tea instead of coffee? Perhaps these are British and Hispanic colonists would like to divide the U.S. plantation into two halves, the white and the browns. Yes, or something like that. Truth be told, the average American voter is just a consumer of tea or coffee and doesn't really have a clue what these mysterious "activists" are doing behind the scenes. Scary.