The meeting of the Tea Party over last weekend is not really worthy of any comment, but points up a recurring problem in America. This problem is that America seems to have he propensity to choose the wrong leaders at times of need. Reagan was elected in the 1980s just when it was encountering strong international competition and needed to set up a national response to it. Instead America got laissez faire ideology. The US is now in deep crisis and the Tea party advocates laissez-faire, but without having the brains to know its ramifications.
As Andy Vrahimedes said to me in 1956 "America is the land where all the peasants of Europe went and dug up gold". My reply in 2010 is "Andy - unfortunately the gold has run out but the people are still peasants". The Tea Party is proof of this last statement.
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