I have written two reviews of Allie Winegar Duzett’s new book How to Save America A Tactical Guide for Practical patriots. You can find my Amazon review of the book here and my review for Lunch.com is here.
No matter which review you choose, it is an excellent book at an excellent price by a remarkable young lady.
You can view my interview of A. E. Duzett for the Field guide here.



Activist tactics aside, whether Tea Party activism is on the “How to Save America” path, or on the “How to Set America back 100 Years” path, is the great debate of our time, isn’t it?
It’s good for a chuckle when one minority group (Tea Party supported by 23%, opposed by 63%: http://politics.usnews.com/news/articles/2010/09/16/poll-sarah-palin-and-tea-party-unfavorable.html) attempts to make a feel-good term such as “patriot” their proprietary domain. I didn’t read her book, but I suppose that is one of her recommended tactics.
Personally, I would hate to live in a Tea Party-governed America. They would create horrific hardship as they destroy not just the fat of government but its muscle. Ironically to their stated aims, they would perpetuate vast budget deficits because they of their reflexive hatred of taxation. Anyone who campaigns on a “balance the budget and cut taxes” platform is an idiot. Well, they might win, but they’re an idiot.
The Tea Party serves us much better as a valuable gadfly, forcing the two parties who can actually govern this country to recognize fiscal restraint. As a paradigm of governnance, the Tea Party is inane.