Hurdles: the Tea Party, localism, and Moses' model

• What are the hurdles to getting your message out and changing how people think of government?

Asked about his hurdles, Dave Funk cites a National Tea Party Patriots survey of 380,000 rally attendees: 80% said reduce the size and scope of the federal government. He argues social-policy fights belong under Iowa's Golden Dome, not in Washington, and that the framers' model mirrors Moses in Deuteronomy: groups of ten, a hundred, a thousand, with Moses making very few decisions himself.