What We Need Is A New Party

 I have been a registered Republican all of my adult life.  But I have not been radically so.  For example, I could not vote for Dole for President, so voted for Clinton...to my eternal shame.  Even though I knew that Obama was a Marxist, he admitted it in his book, I never said that he wasn't the President, or that he wasn't MY President.  But the time has come, and I have to admit that I do not feel that the current administration is either the, or my President.  Like Kurt Schlichter, I have taken to referring to him as President Asterisk.

My reasons for feeling this way is because it looks to me that the presidential election was stolen.  So, it was interesting to see that Newt Gingrich, of all people, feels the same way. His reasons were written in an article at The Washington Times entitled Why I will Not accept Joe Biden as President.

In this context, let’s talk first about the recent past and the presidency.

In 2016, I supported an outsider candidate, who was rough around the edges and in the Andrew Jackson school of controversial assaults on the old order. When my candidate won, it was blamed on the Russians. We now know (four years later) Hillary Clinton’s own team financed the total lie that fueled this attack.

Members of the FBI twice engaged in criminal acts to help it along — once in avoiding prosecution of someone who had deleted 33,000 emails and had a subordinate use a hammer to physically destroy hard drives, and a second time by lying to FISA judges to destroy Gen. Michael Flynn and spy on then-candidate Donald Trump and his team. The national liberal media aided and abetted every step of the way. All this was purely an attempt to cripple the new president and lead to the appointment of a special counsel — who ultimately produced nothing.

Now, people in my world are told it is time to stop resisting and cooperate with the new president. But we remember that the Democrats wanted to cooperate with Mr. Trump so much that they began talking about his impeachment before he even took office. The Washington Post ran a story on Democrat impeachment plots the day of the inauguration. In fact, nearly 70 Democratic lawmakers boycotted his inauguration. A massive left-wing demonstration was staged in Washington the day after, where Madonna announced she dreamed of blowing up the White House to widespread applause. These same forces want me to cooperate with their new president. I find myself adopting the Nancy Pelosi model of constant resistance. Nothing I have seen from Mr. Biden since the election offers me any hope that he will reach out to the more than 74 million Americans who voted for President Trump.

So, I am not reacting to the votes so much as to the whole election environment,

(As an aside, I would note that in the process of executing this resistance, the trust that people have placed in whole institutions and agencies has been torn asunder, probably for a generation at least. While most FBI agents are probably good people, one can no longer trust any of them. The discovery that the CIA, the NSA and other agencies like the IRS are being used against us have pretty much raised our natural suspicion of government to red alarm levels. The fact that it is YOUR money being used AGAIST YOU makes it all the more galling.  As I write this, I suspect it is being tracked by an NSA algorithm, and who knows, perhaps Google is shadow banning this blog with the tacit approval of the Party.)

Please read Gingrich's article.  It is well written, and he manages to capture the frustration a lot, maybe 75 million of us feel right now.  But, I highlighted the article in order to bring up what I feel may be a way forward for us.  More about that below.

I mentioned that I have been a lifelong Republican.  But the Republican party no longer represents me.  I have not changed.  I am still the Constitutional conservative I have always been.  But I now have to finally face the fact that what we have in Washington today is not two political parties, but what has been described as a Uniparty...or just The Party.  There is the Left wing, the Democratic Socialists, Communists, Fascists, Progressives (these people rename themselves constantly to escape the bad publicity they inevitably engender), and the McConnell wing of The Party.  Neither wing of The Party pays any attention to the Constitution.  They have been playing us for suckers, and we have let them.  I would also note that just like during the post Civil War, the Democrats had the militant wing of their party, the KKK, they now have the BLM and Antifa.  And if you do not see coordination, command and control there, you are not looking.

So, what is to be done.  I have talked to many conservatives, and to a man and woman, most believe there is no point to voting, because they recognize that since there will be no consequences for openly stealing an election, it will be done again and again, effectively ensuring that they will not have a voice in government.  The Party hopes that by an aggressive program of attacking conservatives, and if necessary "re-educating" them, and...well...other more aggressive means, they will be able to tamp down any dissent.  I suspect they are making a big mistake.  But don't interupt the enemy while he is making a mistake.  That advice comes from Napoleon, not Sun Zhu.

Meanwhile over at the American Thinker Allen Gindler has an interesting article entitled Where to Find a Principled Right Wing Party. Gindler suggests that we make our own. It has, I would remind you, been successfully done before. In 1854, in a school house in Wisconsin, a group of abolitionists got together and founded the Republican party. By 1860 they had elected the first Republican president. Meanwhile, members of the Whig party either joined the Republicans, or switched to the Democrats, depending on their own personal believes about slavery.  In either case, the Whigs died out, or maybe became the Northeast wing of the Republicans.  Who knows?

Today, the issue is not slavery, but the more basic and universal parts of our founding documents, life, liberty, and property.  The Party believes you have too much of all of these things.  Indeed, they don't believe that you have a right to any of them.  For the most part, they don't even believe in a Creator who grants you these rights.  Instead, they believe that these and other rights are granted by government like little treats for good boys and girls.  But don't eat them before dinner!

Gindler writes:

Which ideas are right-wing? First, rightists' views contradict the principles of the socialists. If socialists encroach on private property rights, restrict individual freedom, and welcome forced redistribution of wealth, then the right wing is against all this. The right wing firmly defends private property and individualism and restricts compulsory wealth redistribution. Second, the right wing allows dissident thoughts to be heard, which cannot be said about the left. Third, the right wing has nothing to do with racism and nationalism. Unfortunately, they simply could not effectively defend themselves from the left's defamatory labels.

The problems listed above — the attitude toward private property, the degree of individual freedom, the scale of the redistribution of wealth — have been the main topics for discussion from ancient times to the present day. These questions are relevant and currently confront American society. Amazingly, the answer to those problems from both major parties is almost identical. Both sides are irresponsible squanderers and redistributors of wealth, who are trying to solve all issues by involving the state in the economy and in all other spheres of life.

Thus, we observe a blatant dichotomy between the right-wing ideas and the ruling elites' practical politics, no matter which — Democratic or Republican. This has become most clearly seen for many Americans right now. The Trump presidency has many historic achievements. However, the most important result of his tenure was the exposure of the rottenness, duplicity, and hypocrisy of the American political elite. He tore the masks from the faces of hideous hypocrites, sacrificing himself and his family. These sacrifices will be in vain if the MAGA movement is not organized under the flags of the new party. After all, it is already clear that MAGA in the GOP framework is a road to nowhere.

Trump proposes starting a new party called the Patriot Party. A good start. We need to begin the process of party building at the local and state level. At the Federal level, I think we need to include these items: 1) Reaffirm the Declaration of Independence; that our rights come from our Creator, 2)that the purpose of government is to secure these rights, and 3) that our Federal government should only exercise those powers vested in it by the Constitution.

To facilitate this platform, perhaps it might be a good idea to have as one of our platform goals the repeal of the 17th Amendment. You can read about the reasons why the 17th Amendment was ratified. But I think the states are important stakeholders in the Federal government. The Federal government is, indeed, a creature of the states; the states are not provinces of the Federal government.  The people have the House.  If the States have the Senate, and if we can keep the Electoral College, I think power will be fairly diluted. As it stands, we are getting closer and closer to a democracy as opposed to a republic. And a democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner.

Oh, and you are not a wolf.