Posted by
Joseph O'Connell on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:09:39 PM
My concerns of late have been piqued by a particular thought that entered my mind early in April. I wrote this about that time and am editing it now to post.
The left feels itself accepted by America because of the recent wins for hard leftists candidates, chief among them Barack Obama. Frankly, people such as myself regard the past two national elections, not as a rejection of conservatism and America's founding principles, but as a rejection of moderation in the pursuit of virtue. In that approach John McCain has always served as a prime example, being dubbed "Maverick" by the leftist media. He was never a conservative. He has always stood with the Democrat party on a fair number of issues and it was for that reason the media fell in love with him, that is until he decided to challenge Barack Obama.
Regardless, of that, the socialist left believes it has a wide open road and no voter-wielded police cars pursuing. They do in fact have this situation but there are a few roadblocks they don't recognize just yet. The first is that our system of government is sluggish, slow in operation. Any changes they make will take time to have their affect, and for this I fear as much as they may wait breathlessly. The left will certainly do a great deal of damage where the destruction will only show up much later, an excellent example of this would be universal 'health coverage'. The second roadblock is that the American people, by polling on nearly every issue, dislike and distrust big government. That is to the credit of the people and to the spite of the leftists who have tried for decades to indoctrinate every generation they can, succeeding with near total monopolies on grade school education, colleges and universities, and media outlets. The changes Barack Obama and his cohorts are putting in place are not resonating and soon, I believe, it will begin to affect Barack Obama's poll numbers, Bradley effect aside. By speeding these changes through, Barack is sure to turn public support away from himself, to a certain degree. It may even be enough of a shock to the American people to emerge from their complacency and return power to originalist leaders who will actually get rid of government programs and not create new ones at the same time. Wouldn't that be nice?
But the hard left also doesn't like allowing the people a fair vote. There remains no doubt in my mind that fascism is the strategy of the authoritarian and they are all too happy to use those tactics and declare it in the best interests of the public. They disregard the will of the people in how government is administered and maintained. This often takes the form of judicial activism.
However, there are other ways this fascism occurs. Despite its attempts to register every moron, alien, and felon possible (because these are the people most easily bribed with government programs), the left essentially dislikes the system of voting. Walter Williams states that the true test of a person's support for freedom is whether or not that person allows others to do what the tested person does not think they ought to do. The same is true in elections. If the left is defeated at the ballot box, they find other ways to get their objectives done, because they believe they know what is better for the American people than we the people do for ourselves. Summarily, the left believes in their own right to control, their own claim to power by being 'intellectually superior', and they believe they have a right to maintain and expand this power with any method they see fit.
Therefore, it stands to reason, since Barack Obama will not be challenged in the Democrat primary, that the legions of leftists will be called upon to temporarily join the Republican party in order to foul up the primary system illegitimately. Barack (and the Democrat power brokers) want to face another McCain style moderate who will try to walk the fence between the parties rather than rally the numerically superior support for individual liberty (in the way of Ronald Reagan).
Democrats know, even if Barack Obama becomes an economic failure, a property rights nightmare, and is absent on national security, they can control the Republican primary election to guarantee that no conservative will see the oval office, no matter how the election results come in. They would most hope for a second term for Obama, but would not be terribly wrathful to endure four years of a moderate who will preside over a slower growth of government power (but growth nonetheless).
What the Republican party needs to do to curb this villany and treachery is overhaul the party nomination process. There are a number of ways they can do this. Each involves setting in stone party bylaw which is exclusive. The core beliefs of the Republican party ought to exclude certain people from being allowed to use the Republican moniker. After all, a party is not merely a monopoly of political convenience. If it doesn't stand for something, it is worth nothing in the end except as a union to maintain a few certain jobs go to a few certain people (political jobs to Republicans).
The bylaws ought to include tax cuts for anyone who pays taxes, abolishment of certain taxes altogether and a replacement of the tax code by amendment to the Constitution, protection of national sovereignty from military force and from foreign intervention or domestic writeoff (be it to a union of nations, individual nations, or individuals), preservation of the American love of liberty by limiting access to our nation to those who hold similar ideals.
A host of other principles and philosophies exist but some set must be constructed and candidates must only recieve party endorsement if they have a track record of supporting, say 90% of those ideals. If they cannot support those party ideals, why do we have a Repubican party at all? The Republican party does not exist to hold democratic elections to decide what to stand for. Republicanism in America has always stood for strong federalism and decentralized authority. These unions of politically like-minded people are not simply engines of acruing power. They are and ought to be drivers of an agenda. It's time the Republican party return to republicanism and set in stone the conservative ideals upon which this nation was founded.
Incidentally, I've contacted the Republican party about this concern several times. They seem disinterested.