Can someone explain to an outsider (a druid in Gaul watching Rome implode) what -- if the Republicans or the Tea Party people or whoever -- take over, what they propose to do to solve the nation's ills? They seem to be against big government, but then how do they propose to stop the banks, get housing going again, deal with health care? Republicans are not known to be anti-bank, they have no interest in the poor or the working class, and they have no health care plan.   As far as one can make out through the murk, the only things all these people can agree on are no gun control, no homosexual marriage, military spending, and tax cuts.   How does any of this solve any of the economic and social difficulties? Can anyone enlighten me? It seems mysterious to me.

A druid wants to know.

yours,

Peter T.