Tammy Bruce, bestselling author of "The New Thought Police" and "The Death of Right and Wrong," has penned a new book that's sure to attract attention. It's titled "The New American Revolution."
Her literary call to arms is based on the dramatic shift of American attitudes that took place after Sept. 11, and the resulting nationalism and individualism that illuminate the conservative path today.
Bruce, the Los Angeles-based talk show host whose politics are uniquely her own, describes herself as "an openly gay, pro-choice, gun-owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Bush progressive feminist." She says she's a "former leftist," and she frequently appears on Fox News Channel as a political analyst. Bruce also served on California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's transition team.
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Bruce told NewsMax that her new book is born of public response to her first two. Ideas encompassed within "The New American Revolution" were triggered by questions from readers who were seeking proactive ways in which to counter the destructive influence of the Left on our society and culture.
According to Bruce, Sept. 11, 2001, was the day the new American Revolution began.
Bruce noticed that dramatic changes began to take place after that catastrophic event in our history.
She points out that one of the problems prior to the terrorist attacks was that "the majority of good, regular people had been intimidated into silence; that we were going along to get along, and we were looking away."
But Bruce sees 9/11 as the blaring alarm that "woke us up from a cultural coma" and made us realize that "tomorrow is not guaranteed."
"Our DNA changed on September 11," Bruce writes.
That fateful day was, as she describes, "our tipping point."
Bruce eschews conventional political labels.
In her book she tries to more clearly define the meaning of such terms as "conservative," "liberal," "socialist" and others, "because the labels get so mixed up."
Bruce distinguishes religious politics from what are considered to be conservative politics. She told NewsMax that "authentic basic conservative politics are about less government; about people being able to rule their lives; people having real, authentic freedom."
Drawing upon her own experience working with groups that are on the left, she plucks a few of their favorite terms and coins the phrase "new radical individual."
"The new radical individual is the average American who toils away at his job, raises his family, is a person of faith and sticks to those principles, despite what media, news, film and all the talking heads tell him to think," Bruce explains.
Bruce, who has been a staunch defender of President Bush, dismisses the notion that Harriet Miers lacked the "right pedigree" to serve on the Supreme Court. Bruce reminds folks that "John Kerry went to the same school George W. Bush did. We don't care what school somebody goes to."
What does concern Bruce, though, is the larger issue of judicial clarity. She points out that we have had Republican nominees who have seriously failed to live up to expectations.
"The last, I believe, seven of nine Republican appointees have gone to the left on the Court. You've got justices like (David) Souter and (Stephen) Breyer and (Anthony) Kennedy who were so vague; so unclear on the nature of which they were." Bruce sees individuals such as these as perhaps more easily able to be manipulated "by leftists in the way that they look at the world."
On the other hand, Bruce has praise for the justices whom she sees as being "truly rooted in classically conservative thought: (Antonin) Scalia and (Clarence) Thomas, (the late William) Rehnquist and (Sandra Day) O'Connor." She cites the Kelo v. New London eminent domain decision and points out that "you had those four voting to keep private property rights in this country, and the liberals saying no."
NewsMax asked Bruce if it would be better for America if Roe v. Wade were overturned, taking the abortion issue away from the federal government and placing it within the jurisdiction of state legislatures.
Bruce does not believe that approach would be a good one. She says "there are certain issues that must be dealt with at the federal level, like slavery. You can't have a black person be a criminal and a slave in one state and not in another, because then that opens up issues about their travel," where someone could be "a free human being in one state and not another. Who then has jurisdiction over that?"
In her book, Bruce applies the same line of reasoning to abortion. Although she believes abortion should be socially stigmatized, she doesn't want to "create an environment where from state to state a woman would be a criminal in one and not in another; that she would be pursued in one and not in another; that for some states it's safer to be a woman than in other states, based on the nature of what's going on in that state."
However, Bruce would like to see Roe v. Wade applied in accordance with the original holding. "Roe v. Wade only legalizes abortion in the first trimester, and yet no one follows that ruling."
Bruce favors legislation to require that a parent be notified if a minor child is going to have an abortion, admitting that her position on the subject has changed over time. "Feminists were indoctrinated with [the argument] that if a young person wanted an abortion there was a good chance it might have been her father or family member who impregnated her."
She no longer buys that feminist logic because she is now more familiar with the reality of young girls' lives. "I think that if you need permission to get a tattoo or to get your ears pierced, you certainly should have to obtain permission to have an abortion."
Bruce has a unique perspective, having worked with left-wing leadership. She was asked why those on the left appear to have blinders on when it comes to the potential evil of the likes of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez or Josef Stalin.
Bruce doesn't see folks on the left as being blind at all. Rather, she views them as being fully aware of the evil.
She describes a hatred of self that is "so deep, and the belief and the projection of that onto the rest of humanity so complete, that the left really truly does believe that there is a little Hitler in every human being. As a result, humanity is evil; we destroy the environment, we want to enslave blacks and kill Jews, everybody is at risk because of humanity."
The left sees humanity as "the scourge of the earth," according to Bruce. She contends that the reason "such devastation is always associated with extremist leftist leaders" is because "they really believe that humanity itself is the problem."
"The hatred of themselves is that deep, and the consequent hatred for humanity" results in the "genocidal historical leadership" that is embraced, not because they don't want to recognize what's happened in the past, but because they like what has happened in the past."
What then is Job One for patriotic individualists who want to save America from the extremists?
"The very first job is to trust yourself," Bruce maintains.
She points to the anti-illegal immigration Minuteman Project as a prime example.
"We're not leaving it to government; we're doing it ourselves," Bruce declares. "Americans are realizing that they can make an individual difference; that they should trust themselves; that no one is going to give them power. It is ours to take as individuals."
Making an individual difference regardless of politically correct sentiments is what Tammy Bruce and her new book are all about.
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