Politics
Return to Common Sense
February 5, 2020
Section:
Introduction – Politics
“The nonpartisan Background
Poll continues to confirm that a
majority (59%) of Americans characterize themselves year after year as
conservative or very conservative, but this does not always translate into
party politics.”
“The trouble with our liberal
friends is not that they’re ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
Ronald Reagan.
Philosophy
(Background, Issues, Objectives):
The political spectrum varies between
the extremes of complete freedom with no governance (anarchy) to the all-powerful state (statism) with no
individual freedom.
- Fascism is
racial statism while communism is statism of economic class.
- The closest the
world came to actual capitalism was the United States in the 19th
century, the era of this country’s fastest economic growth.
Currently the two major parties are
Republican and Democrat:
- Republican
Right (Conservatives), began as Whigs, tend to favor economic freedom, but
frequently support laws to restrict personal behavior that violates
“traditional values;” support a strong military, oppose
bureaucracy and high taxes, favor a free market economy and endorse strong
law enforcement.
o
Aristotle held that truth is far too complex to know through the bare
application of logic to imagination because the variables are too numerous to
enable the thinker to find that truth without
reference to known variations of existent, provable fact.
o
Aristotle took
into account the changeability of human nature.
o
In developing his
theory, he assumed two premises:
§ First, that truth can be determined through logic, but only if it
is based on empirical observation.
§ Second, government exists to protect its citizens so they can
freely create their own society born of liberty and choice.
o
Aristotle’s
thought has heirs in a line from Aquinas to
Hobbes to Locke to Burke to the American Founders and to modern conservatism.
- Democrat
Left (Liberals), began as Federalists, usually embrace freedom of choice in personal matters, but tend
to support significant government control of the economy, a “safety
net” to help disadvantaged, strict regulation of business,
environmental regulations, defend civil liberties and free expression, and
tolerate diverse lifestyles.
o
Plato is the father of American leftism who believed that truth was
discovered through the application of logic unconstrained by experience.
o
His was unleavened idealism, and his description of an ideal
political system is one derived from what he imagined would result in the best,
most ordered society from which all would benefit.
o
He proceeds from two basic premises.
§ The first is that
transcendent truth is knowable a priori and derived by the mind of man applying
logic to an analysis of abstract principles.
§ The second is
that it is the function of government to shape society and, to that end, to
organize its citizens and institutions with the objective of creating the
defined ideal.
o
Not surprisingly, Plato's system has never, in the history of
mankind, successful.
o
Plato’s progeny have, through the millennia, adopted his
premises in a direct line of thought from Augustine to Descartes to Leibnitz to Kant to Hegel to Marx to modern
liberalism.
o
Each accepted as its premises, first, that the truth was knowable
and should be derived by logic without reference to experience and, second,
that government exists -- and should exist -- to shape society to the ideal
and, with it, to bend the will of the individual to the service of the defined
greater good.
o
When redistribution of wealth was attempted in Rome, Cicero
inherited a 100 year catastrophe in 55BC where nobody wanted to work.
- The Republican Party provided national leadership at critical point
in this nation’s history:
o
Emancipation
Proclamation (1863):
The first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, issued an order freeing all
slaves in the confederacy.
o
End
of the Civil War (1865):
Abe Lincoln guides the north to victory in the Civil War and reunites the
nation.
o
Women's
right to vote (1872):
Republicans Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton write the text of the
19th Amendment, which is introduced by Republican Senator Aaron A. Sargent of California. The Amendment was finally ratified
in 1920.
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Victory
in the Spanish American War (1898):
Republican William McKinley achieves victory in the Spanish American War and
forces Spain to give up its claim on Cuba.
o
Construction
of the Panama Canal (1904):
Under Republican Teddy Roosevelt, America takes control of the Panama Canal and
builds it into one of the most crucial locations in world shipping.
o
First
woman elected to U.S. House of Representatives (1916): Republican Jeannette Rankin
becomes the first woman elected to
the U.S. House of Representatives.
o
Construction
of the Hoover Dam (1928):
Calvin Coolidge signed a law allowing the construction of the Hoover Dam to
begin.
o
Jessie
Owens wins four gold medals in the Olympics (1936): Republican Jessie Owens
humiliated Hitler by winning 4 gold medals in the Berlin Olympics. President Dwight Eisenhower made him "Ambassador
of Sports."
o
Jackie
Robinson becomes the first black American to play in the Major Leagues (1947): Republican Jackie Robinson broke the color
barrier in Major League Baseball when the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers,
Republican Branch Rickey, brought him up to the major leagues.
o
The
Interstate Highway System (1956):
Republican Dwight Eisenhower begins construction of the Interstate highway
system.
o
Desegregating
schools (1957):
Dwight Eisenhower "deployed
the 82nd Airborne Division to desegregate Little Rock’s government
schools over the strenuous resistance of Governor Orval
Faubus (D., Ark.)."
o
The
First Asian-American U.S. Senator (1959): The first Asian-American senator, Republican
Hiram Fong, is elected in Hawaii.
o
Civil
Rights Act of 1960:
"Eisenhower signs the GOP’s 1960 Civil Rights Act after
it survived a five-day, five-hour filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats."
o
The
Reagan tax cuts (1981):
Republican Ronald Reagan revitalized the listless U.S. economy with tax cuts
that created a massive surge of jobs, economic growth, and prosperity.
o
Collapse
of the Soviet Union (1991):
Ronald Reagan's tireless work against the Soviet Union finally paid off as it
formally dissolved in 1991, during George H.W. Bush term.
o
The
Gulf War (1991):
George H.W. Bush formed a coalition that forced Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.
o
Welfare
reform (1996):
After Clinton vetoed two previous versions of welfare reform, Republicans sent
it back to him a third time and he finally reluctantly signed the bill.
o
A
Republican Congress balances the budget (1998-2001): Republicans in Congress
forced an unenthusiastic Bill Clinton to balance the budget in his second term.
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Retaliation
in Afghanistan (2001):
After the 9/11 attacks, Republican George W. Bush retaliated by driving the
Taliban and their allies in Al-Qaeda from power.
o
Condi
Rice becomes Secretary of State (2005): George W. Bush selected Condi
- The vast majority of GOP
politicians over the last century can be classified into one of the
following three categories:
o
RINOs – Republicans
In Name Only who do not believe that progressivism and big government are bad
for America. Democrats have screwed it up and Republicans should be
entrusted to implement the progressive agenda because they will do it more
efficiently and cost effectively than liberal Democrats have or could.
o
CRUELs – Confused
Republicans who are Unable to Exercise Leadership are conservative politicians whose
hearts and minds may be in the right place, but they are unable to: (i) articulate their beliefs; (ii) explain the connection
between progressivism and the ills that beset the nation; (iii) describe
clearly how conservative policies will enhance liberty and economic prosperity;
and (iv) deflect the vicious slanders that the Democrats hurl at them.
o
CCCs – Committed,
Conservative Constitutionalists are politicians who have a clear understanding of what the
progressives have wrought and how the country has changed. They can envision
and describe, clerly nd
simply, the bleak future that awaits us if we don’t have a major course
correction. Furthermore, such people also have a clear idea of what must be
done to return the country to its founding ethos, re-institute the ideals of
free market capitalism, constitutional and limited governance, and American exceptionalism and thereby restore the republic.
- Today’s
“gentry liberalism” reflects the
interests and values of affluent winners in the era of globalization and
the beneficiaries of the “financialization” of the economy.
o
Mainstream media openly supports the
Democrat party.
o
Academic liberals have become something
of a political power in their own right.
§
Academic curriculum reflects political
indoctrination starting in primary schools.
§
Education polls indicate liberal orientation by
faculties at all levels.
§
Lack of political diversity in Universities is
reflected in hiring practices.
o
Liberal websites such as MoveOn.Org and Huffington
Post are lavishly funded.
o
Liberal environmental issues distance it further
from the values and interests of the middle and working classes.
- Conservatives have
embraced 1960s beliefs that used to be identified as liberal:
o
American
exceptionalism (America has done more than any other
country to improve this world; and American values form the finest value
system).
o
The
bigger government gets and more powerful the state becomes, the greater the
threat to individual liberty and the greater the likelihood that evil will
ensue.
o
High
levels of taxation render those taxes a veiled form of theft.
o
Government
funding of those who can help themselves or who can be helped by
non-governmental institutions hurts them and hurts society.
o
America
has been based on the Judeo-Christian value system, not secular
o
Enlightenment
values alone, and the secularization of American
society will lead to the collapse.
o
Murderers
should be put death.
o
American
military has done more to preserve and foster goodness and liberty on Earth
than all the artists and professors in America put together.
o
Lowering
standards to admit minorities mocks the real achievements of members of those
minorities.
o
When
schools give teenagers condoms, it is a tacit approval to engage in sexual
intercourse.
o
Assertions
that manmade carbon emissions will lead to a global warming that will in turn
bring on worldwide disaster are a function of hysteria.
o
Marriage
must remain what has been in every recorded civilization - between the two
sexes.
o
Trial
lawyers associations and teachers unions have done
great harm to American life.
o
Nuclear
power, clean coal, and drilling in Alaska and offshore, along with exploration
of other energy alternatives such as wind and solar power, are immediately
necessary.
o
School
vouchers are more effective than increased spending on public schools in
enabling many poorer Americans to give their children better educations.
o
America
is no longer a racist society, and that blaming disproportionate rates of black
violence and out-of-wedlock births on white racism is a lie and an impediment
to progress.
o
America,
which accepts and assimilates foreigners better than
any other country in the world, is the least racist, least xenophobic country
in the world.
o
Leftist
takeover of the liberal arts departments in nearly every American university
has been an intellectual and moral calamity.
o
A
good man and a good marriage are more important to most women's happiness and
personal fulfillment than a good career.
o
Males
and females are inherently different.
o
When
it comes to combating the greatest evils on Earth, such as the genocide in
Rwanda, the United Nations has either been useless or an obstacle.
o
Western
Europe provides social and moral models to be avoided, not emulated.
o
America's
children were positively affected by hearing a non-denominational prayer each
morning in school, and adversely affected by the removal of all prayer from
school.
o
Removal
of school uniforms and/or dress codes has had a terrible impact on students and
their education.
o
Bilingual
education does not work so immersion in English in America is mandatory.
o
English
should be declared the national language.
- Currently the Republican Party is in turmoil,
with at least three distinct factions fighting for political control:
o The first faction is best called Rockefeller Republicans, likely the most traditionally Republican. First and foremost,
Rockefeller Republicans are pro-business. They oppose excessive regulation,
high corporate taxes and government bailouts.
o The second faction, social conservatives, can be found across the political spectrum. They are a minority
faction in both the Democrat and Republican parties,
emphasizing traditional values and morality. They oppose abortion, gay marriage
and unreasonable searches. They believe the government should grant individuals
the freedom to follow their conscience and thus allow them to take moral
action. They also want the government to impose strict laws against immoral
acts without regard for an individual’s conscience.
o The third faction on the conservative side is the Libertarian Party, the largest third party in the United
States. Libertarians want to promote freedom for all, oppose anything that
violates individual liberty and promote anything that supports individual
liberty.
The meaning of liberalism has changed over the centuries.
- Prior to the 20th century, Classical Liberalism was the dominant political
philosophy in the United States.
- Classic Liberalism was the political
philosophy of Thomas Jefferson and the signers of the Declaration of
Independence and it permeates the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution, the Federalist Papers and many other documents produced by
the people who created the American system of government.
- A strategic connection between leftists and
liberalism resulted in what we now refer to as Modern
American Liberalism.
- Over the past century liberalism has passed
through at least four separate stages and is now well into a fifth.
o
It
first emerged late in the 19th century under the banner of Progressivism, asserting that new political
institutions had to be established to regulate industrial concentrations and to
mediate conflicts between business and labor.
o
Progressivism
flamed out during World War I and seemed to have disappeared for good during
the 1920s, but it revived itself during the 1930s as "New Deal liberalism" while preserving a few of
the themes of Progressivism and unfolded in five phases:
§
The
first New Deal (1933-1934) consisted of gigantic
workfare projects to absorb the unemployed in conservation programs and what
would today be called infrastructure construction; a comprehensive banking
reorganization with guarantees of deposits; agreed rollbacks of agricultural
production, voted by sector, to assure viable pricing; encouragement of cartels
and collective bargaining to raise wages and prices; evaluation of the dollar
and a departure from the gold standard apart from international transactions;
and legislated improvements in working conditions.
§
The
second New Deal (1934-1938) included Social
Security, the Securities and Exchange Commission, some remodeling of the
pyramidal corporate structure of the hydroelectric industry, and higher taxes
as a sop to the demagogic political movements chipping at the two-party system.
In the latter half of this phase, the workfare and conservation programs were
rolled back, and the federal deficit was reduced.
§
Depressive
conditions began to reappear and Roosevelt reapplied workfare pump-priming on a
massive scale in the third New Deal (1938-1939),
and shifted to the greatest peacetime arms buildup in history, including
America's first peacetime conscription.
§
The
fourth New Deal (1939-1945) carried into the
war, counting the workfare program participants as employed (which is as
logical as including European military draftees and defense workers as
employed), unemployment was severely reduced by 1935; counting them as
unemployed, the unemployment numbers came down to the low teens by 1936,
descended below 10 percent in 1940, and unemployment was completely eliminated
before the Japanese attack plunged America into war in December 1941.
§
The
final phase of the New Deal (1945-1949) came
posthumously to Roosevelt, but was his GI Bill of Rights, which gave university
tuition and a stake to start a business or buy a farm to 13 million returning
American servicemen (almost 10% of the entire population), and effectively
turned the working class into a middle class, having saved them from
joblessness, trained and led them to victory in war, and staked them to new
careers.
§
When
FDR's brand of liberalism faded out because of World War II and the prosperity
of the postwar period, it revived itself in the form of "Cold War liberalism," achieving new peaks of
popularity and influence during the Kennedy-Johnson years.
§
The
rebels, protesters, and reformers of the 1960s authored still a fourth chapter
by introducing into the movement the theme of liberation or "cultural liberalism."
§ By this last adaptation liberalism strengthened its appeal to the educated classes but at the expense of its broad support among working- and middle-class voters, as it morphed into "leftism." The traditional liberal objective of providing economic security for the working man gave way to a desire to reform and even to overturn the inherited fabric of society, thereby politicizing cultural practices relating to family life, sexual mores, and religion.
o
This
convergence of leftism and liberalism ultimately
led to a misleading change of name, morphing from socialism, communism, or
Marxism to “liberalism”
created a lasting misconception.
o
The
Modern
Liberalism agenda is to gain control of the institutional hierarchy
of the state and then to use that power to implement their notions of what a
just and humane society entails as they see it.
§
There
is nothing “modern” about Modern
Liberalism, as the ideas were hatched around the French Revolution, and
have not changed much since.
§
Centralized
vs. decentralized control are concepts that have maintained their meaning
relatively well.
·
Leftism / Modern Liberalism
has failed repeatedly through the years:
o
Family: Modern liberalism teaches
the family is an artificial construct that has no profound meaning. The result
has been a society that seems to have given up on the idea of romantic love.
o
Education: Modern liberal ideas about education, focus upon the misbegotten ideas of John Dewey whichwas based upon experiential instruction that eschewed
the classics and sought to prepare youngsters for a trade or some other skill.
This fits the Marxist world-view where the few elites rule the ignorant masses
with an iron hand.
o
Immigration: Modern liberal immigration
is premised upon the notion that the world is a giant country, and therefore
all people who want to get into America are already its citizens. While this
might seem insane, it is a crafty policy for those who would make these
untutored foreigners instant citizens capable of voting the day they cross the
border.
o
Economics:
Modern
liberal economics is based upon the idea that capitalism is a theft where the
rich steal from the poor. This simple, antagonistic, class-warfare Marxism,
disproved a thousand times and killed dead as a duck, is yet back from the
grave for another regime.
o
Foreign
Policy: Modern
liberal foreign policy is premised upon the idea that if the stronger nations
lay down their arms and kneel at the feet of the weak, they will be blessed for
their love and mercy; then peace will reign across the earth.
o
Taxation
& Spending: Modern
tax and spend liberalism is premised upon the notion that the more a society
spends, the better place it will be. Instead, there is no causal relationship
in taxing and spending for the good life, but an unfortunate negative
relationship.
o
Welfare:
The modern
liberal welfare state assumes that people who are in bad situations are there
for no fault of their own, and must be helped. Support for the indolent causes
the numbers of poor to rise since they are being rewarded.
o
Church & State: Modern
liberal theory presumes that religion is a negative, as Marx taught, so must be
pushed to the side. The net result is that public policy is no longer infused
with the West’s spirit of Christianity but, instead, increasingly becomes
informed by humanism, secularism and atheism.
o
Energy
Policy: The
earth is treated as a living being and mankind’s activities akin to a
deadly attack against it.
o Exceptionalism: Modern liberalism teaches there is no such thing as American Exceptionalism. Instead, there is only each state’s self-interest, and we must break down America and its delusions about being better than any other place.
·
Surprisingly the Left are more interested
in money than Right-wingers.
·
Left-wingers
are more likely to rate 'high income'
as an important factor in choosing a job.
·
Left
feels there are no right or wrong ways to make money.
·
Left
are less likely to give to charity or to volunteer their time to charity.
·
When
Leftists donate money it is more likely to advocacy organisations
to advance a political agenda, versus help needy people.
·
Progressives see economic equality as the
highest form of social justice.
o
Left
tends to be more envious and jealous of successful people.
o
Those
who favor the redistribution of wealth are more envious than those who do not.
o
Leftists
were much more willing to give up some of their own money if it meant taking
more money from someone else.
o
Much
of the desire to distribute wealth and higher taxation is motivated by envy -
the desire to take more from someone else - and bitterness.
o
Many current liberal action groups can be directly traced back to
class based society with Marxist, socialist roots.
§
Socialism
teaches good of the group always exceed the rights of the individual.
§
Socialism
tries to control the means of production through regulation.
§ The cultural
offensive launched by progressives was inspired by an Italian Stalinist named Antonio Gramsci,
whose works became an academic fashion in the 1970s.
Ø
Writing
in the 1930s, Gramsci had proposed an innovation in
Marxist theory which sought to address the fact that the working class had
failed in its historic mission as a revolutionary force.
Ø
Gramsci’s solution was to put cultural
institutions at the center of the revolutionary agenda.
Ø
In
Gramsci’s conception, this meant infiltrating
and then subverting universities, churches, media and the institutions of the
arts, the instrumentalities by which ideas were introduced into the general
culture.
Ø
In
Gramsci’s vision, radical subvention of these
institutions and therefore of the culture would make radical ideas the ruling
ideas, which would result in radicals becoming a political ruling class.
§ Saul Alinsky’s organizing model
is based on fomenting public discontent, moral confusion, and outright chaos to
spark social upheaval and justify major social changes.
§ “Organizing for America” (OFA) is
an offshoot of the Democrat National Committee to agitate locally for Democrat
national supported issues.
Ø OFA is designed as a grass
roots organization led by hardcore activists (“all leftist politics, all the time”) and involving mostly
unpaid volunteers (“useful idiots”).
- There are three classes
of top-down social engineering.
o
Government
programs to restructure society is one class.
o
Government
laws, regulatory mandates, and court orders to change behavior is a second.
o
The
third is liberal social pressure, often with government complicity, to control thought, also known as “political
correctness.”
The two major political philosophies have two
different points of view:
Characteristic |
Republican Conservative |
Democrat Liberal |
Outlook |
Generally happy, positive Visionary, forward looking “Glass is half full” Hopeful, “focus on
progress” Representative, compassionate Patriotic, proud (American
Leadership) American exceptionalism Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of
Happiness |
Generally unhappy, angry Second guessing “Glass is half empty” Fearful, “doom and gloom” Arrogant, condescending Self loathing, apologist (Blame
America) American chauvinism Liberty, Equality, Fraternity |
Motivation |
Begin from gratitude for what is good
and what works in our society and then strive to build
on it. |
Begin from outrage at what is bad and broken and seek to uproot
it. |
Approach |
Optimistic, foresight Look to past for guidance Practical, pragmatic Think voters are smart Common good vs. evil Judeo-Christian morals |
Pessimistic, hindsight Look to imaginary future as a guide Naïve, “useful idiots” Think voters are stupid Victimization, divisiveness Moral equivalence, secularism |
Tactics |
Objective truth, right vs. wrong Pursue legal justice Want to be judged on results Factual, logical arguments Highlight opposition shortcomings Realistic issues discussion Think liberals are misguided |
Truth is relative Pursue social justice Want to be judged on intentions Feelings, demagoguery, hyperbole Transference, hypocrisy Obfuscate, discredit, then attack Think conservatives are evil |
The two political parties have two different views
on the issues:
Policies |
Republican |
Democrat |
Approach |
Focus on principles of society Party leadership serves people Country interests first God given rights Marriage between man-woman Freedom of religion Judicial originalism |
Focus on group identity Party elite leads people Political party first Rational, secular basis Same sex marriage Freedom from religion Judicial activism |
Domestic Policy |
Limited government E Pluribus Unum (unite) Free speech for all Victim rights Wealth creation Free market capitalism Lower taxes Environmental conservation |
Government dependence Collection of minorities (divide) Freedom from disagreement Criminal rights Income redistribution Socialism Higher taxes Return to nature |
Foreign Policy |
Independent nation Citizen of America Global leadership Military as extension of policy Strong military defense Victory through strength Free trade |
Global interdependence Citizen of the World Pacifism Military as failure of policy Appeasement Defeatist (“cut and run”) Trade protection |
Liberal policies diminish a society's moral character:
- The bigger the government, the less the
citizens do for one another.
- The welfare state, though often well
intended, is nevertheless a Ponzi scheme.
- Citizens of liberal welfare states become
increasingly narcissistic.
- The liberal welfare state makes people
disdain work.
- Nothing more guarantees the erosion of
character than getting something for nothing.
- The bigger the government, the more the
corruption.
- The welfare state corrupts family life.
- The welfare state inhibits the maturation
of its young citizens into responsible adults.
- As a result of the left's sympathetic views
of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong
military.
- The
leftist weltanschauung sees society's and the world's great battle as between rich
and poor rather than between good and evil.
Political parties differ in the cultural
norms associated that define them:
Republican Party |
Democrat Party |
Enterprise America |
Welfare America |
Stay in school |
School unimportant –
drop out |
Get by contributing |
Get by demanding |
Selling: identifying customer
needs, making yourself and your product attractive to a customer |
In your face: intimidating those around
you |
Achievement |
Achievement is
“privilege” |
Personal responsibility |
Society’s fault |
Historic
success
– example of America to the world |
Historic
failure
– socialist societies everywhere |
Building wealth |
Supported by builders of
wealth |
Making personal and family
history |
Drifting |
Supporting
a strong community |
No stake in community; gang
as community |
Family Ideal: married father, mother,
and children |
Family
Unit: any
loving combination of people |
Historically third parties (Libertarian,
Green, etc.) have not gained significant traction.
- Today’s
independents can be described as: Deliberators, Disillusioned, Dislocated,
Disguised, or Disengaged.
- Constitution
Party is currently the third party in terms of registered voters, although
primarily in California, favors slashing federal spending, abolishing the
income tax, ending the Federal Reserve, banning abortion, curbing
pornography and reducing immigration.
- Libertarian
Party is based on hands-off policies and preaches nonconformity in theory,
but can’t stand ideological nonconformity in practice (absolutists).
- Reform Party is
a creation of Ross Perot and is now a shell.
- America First
Party is protectionist on trade and conservative on social issues.
- Natural Law
Party is focused on a “U.S. peace government’ but has
basically disbanded.
- Green Party emphasizes environmentalism,
non-hierarchical participatory democracy, social justice, respect for diversity, peace and non-violence.
Battleground poll is the most respected
and trusted of political polls.
- Battleground Polling
is an annual collaboration between a Republican polling organization, The Tarrance Group, and a Democrat polling organization,
Lake Research.
- Over the last
five years the results have been relatively constant (including Nov. 2013).
o
American people overwhelmingly (56%)
consider themselves either “conservative”
or “very conservative.”
o
Only 38% of American people consider
themselves either “liberal”
or “very liberal.”
o
The remaining 6% of American people consider
themselves either “moderate”
or “don’t know”
o
Conservatives outnumber liberals in 47 or the 50
states (except Rhode Island, Vermont, and Massachusetts.
- The last 19 Battlefield Polls were consistent in that they did not
vary less than 3%.
- Gallup, George Washington University, and Survey USA all found
essentially the same results.
- Gallup Poll found Americans ranked all politicians very low in
terms of honesty and ethical standards.
o
Idealistic politician’s views tend to blur
the longer they serve inside the beltway.
- The days of conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans are no
longer evident.
o
92% of Republicans are to the right of the median
Democrat.
o
94% of Democrats are to the left of the median
Republican.
o
Polarization has led to a deepening antipathy among
ordinary Americans for the other side.
The Pew Research Center has identified nine
political/ideological “typologies” dividing the political parties.
- The
first group is labeled Bystanders, citizens who do not register to vote
and therefore exclude themselves from politics and so can be ignored.
- Pew
identified four Democrat groupings:
- Solid Liberals
- Opportunity Democrats
- Disaffected Democrats
- Devout/Diverse Democrats
- Pew
identified four
Republican groupings:
- Core Conservatives
- Country First (Social) Conservatives
- Market Skeptics
- New Era Enterprisers
General Social Survey found ones attitudes are driven by their
political belief system.
- Conservatives are more likely to care for a
seriously injured/ill spouse or parent.
- Conservatives get more happiness by putting
someone else's happiness ahead of their own.
- Conservatives like to talk about things
outside of themselves while progressives like to discuss themselves.
- Left are less interested in getting
married.
- Left are less interested in having
children.
- Left are reluctant to sacrifice their own
well-being for those of their children.
- Left want others to pay for their babies.
- Liberal feminists tell women not to have
more than one baby so they can concentrate on a career.
- Liberals hug their children less than
conservatives.
The Federalist Party is based on
strict conformance to the Constitution.
- The GOP is just as
addicted to federal overreach as the Democrats today.
- The Declaration of Independence listed as
three unalienable rights Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
- Of the three original unalienable rights,
“life” is the one that has changed the least. Just as the
founding fathers believed, we embrace a philosophy that holds all human
life as dear.
- The original fight for liberty was
righteous because there were forces keeping them from realizing it. Today,
we must fight a different type of battle, one where defense of
Constitutional freedoms has replaced our 18th century need for liberty.
Our freedoms are being attacked today on many levels and from
multiple angles.
- The pursuit of happiness has changed. The
clear path to liberty has been replaced by the complicated need to
preserve freedoms, but the complex nature of the pursuit of happiness has
been replaced by the straightforward goal of reducing the size and power
of government. .
- Federalism has as its core goal the
balancing of powers through checks and balances that allows the states to
be equal to the federal government.
- This is how the Constitution was written
and why the 10th Amendment has always been so important.
- Unfortunately, the federal government has
taken advantage of loopholes within the Constitution in order to expand
their powers.
Ultra-left liberals developed a Republican Derangement Syndrome (RDS)
during the Bush administration a Bush
Derangement Syndrome (BDS), which has now morphed into Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS):
- RDS believes everything began under or can be blamed on President
Bush.
- RDS paranoia is rampant with belief in opposition from a “vast right wing conspiracy.”
- When facts can not explain their political delusions, RDS
conspiracies are postulated.
- Hyper-partisan
does not seek truth; tailors information to fit preconceived political viewpoint.
- George Soros and
other leftist millionaires are buying a leadership role in the party.
- Elitist
Democracy Alliance was formed to fund progressive infrastructure.
- RDS continues to
drive some liberals to blame predecessor for current political failings.
- Mechanics of
the crude, hate-based RDS initiative the anti-American Democrat Party and
its complicit Mainstream Media wing have forced on the United States since
2001:
o
Invent, inflate, and over-report bad war news. Tie all bad news to
Republicans. At the same time, ignore or downplay good news.
o
Create the illusion of widespread, honest dissent to
Bush policies by giving plenty of
airtime to leftwing groups and individuals historically antagonistic toward the
projection of US, and only US, power.
o
Downplay, ignore and disparage American success wherever you find it.
o
Exalt in, sympathize with and mythologize America's
enemies, vilify and deconstruct its protectors.
o
Downplay America's generosity and righteousness. Recast a mission that
includes saving a nation from a murdering brute and his rapist, sociopath sons
as a brutal occupation in the pursuit of American Empire.
o
Fill the Nation's airwaves, from sea to shining sea,
with questionable and sometimes outright false tales of Republican-related
misery, butchery, fraud and waste.
o
Foment as much national anxiety and hatred of the
Republican leader as money and can buy. George Soros and other moneyed leftists will fund you.
o
Provide coverage to leftwing intellectuals and
scientists making anti-Bush statements. Present them as legitimate, non-partisan experts in their fields.
o
Present major news coverage of every antiwar protest
you can find, whether it draws 100 people or 10,000 people, ignore all pro-US,
pro-troop rallies completely or portray their attendees as violence-prone,
fringe-lunatic jingoists.
o
To sow further strife, anxiety and confusion, continue
stoking the fires of racial tension and class warfare.
- These same
tactics above have been adapted and already used against Donald Trump
since his election.
o
As soon as the election results were known, Democrats melted down with
disbelief.
o
Recounts were done in several states, but no
significant change in the outcomes.
o
Meanwhile partisans unsuccessfully launched an
effort to steal the election by corrupting the electoral
college.
o
Party elites then tried to blame the loss on
Russian hacking without any proof.
o
College campuses offered “safe spaces”
to safely cry and mourn election results.
o
Some campuses offered therapy dogs, snacks and
puppies to distract the ”snowflakes” from the pain they felt.
Socialism is defined as "Any of various theories or systems of social
organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned
collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the
economy."
- Socialists
believe in the use of force to gain their personal ends.
- Socialists
believe in slavery, but not the slavery of an individual owning
another individual, but the economic slavery of a state owning the output
of the individual.
- Socialists are
racists, since socialists will always bring up the subject of race,
regardless of the prevailing drift of the conversation.
- Socialists
believe the worst in everyone, believing if they are all racists, racism
must be shoved in our faces constantly; if they are stingy, they must have
our money forcibly removed and redistributed to others; if they are
heartless, they must mandate compassion.
- Socialists think
religion, especially Christianity, is stupid and nothing but a prop for
the unwashed masses.
- Socialists
believe in an ignorant society, ensuring that public school systems are dumbed down that students can't read their own
diplomas, since useful idiots are easier to dominate than citizens who
have read and understood the documents of the Founding Fathers.
- Socialists
believe you have no right of self-defense with utter faith that government
agents can protect you from any and all harm.
- Socialists are
intolerant, mocking and ridiculing those with the temerity to disagree.
- Socialists are
hypocrites, expecting the unwashed masses to conform to their ideals while
they, the lofty and elite, are exempt.
- Above all,
socialists are in denial, since no matter how much you point out the
obvious – that the government is fulfilling the dictionary
definition of socialism – they flat deny it.
- Socialism has been tried repeatedly through America’s history
starting in Jamestown and Plymouth, but the experiments failed each time
it was attempted.
A Communist system had three pairs of
identifying characteristics, all of which have their origins in Lenin's
ideology and philosophy.
- In the political realm,
a monopoly of power was held by one party, with most of the power
concentrated at the top, and that party operated through the process Lenin
called "democratic centralism."
o
That was supposed to mean that open discussion
could precede decision-making, which was then administered with unanimity and
iron discipline.
o
However It usually meant
that decisions were handed down from a dictator or a small circle of oligarchs,
and were neither discussed nor questioned.
- In the economic realm,
the state controlled the means of production, and a command economy,
rather than a market economy, predominated.
- In the ideological realm,
the declared aim of building communism, for Marx, the classless, stateless
final stage of human development, was the state's "ultimate, legitimizing goal,"
and the state belonged to an international Communist movement aimed at
moving the whole world toward that future society.
- The “Black Book of Communism”
documents the disastrous results:
o
Responsible for the murder of 100 million innocent
people.
§ 76 million killed in China
§ 62 million killed in the former Soviet Union.
§ Almost one-third of all Cambodians killed.
§ Decimated the Tibetan and Chinese culture.
o
Routinely tortured and imprisoned tens of millions
of human beings in Soviet Gulags and concentration camps.
o
Locked
a billion human beings into mental and physical prisons over the seven long
decades of tyranny.
o
Profited
immensely from the misery of others, living in luxury on the backs of peasant
and worker slaves.
o
Enabled, supported, lied
about, and protected all the worst tyrannies in the world, even if they were our deadly
ideological enemies.
o
Actively
aided and abetted Islamic fascists against America and Israel, against moderate
Muslims throughout the world, and after 9/11/01, against freedom-loving
Americans who will not surrender to our extremist ideology."
o
Persecuted
people of faith all over the world, and that we continue to do so today in
China and Vietnam, Africa and North Korea.
o
Actively working to destroy free
peoples, especially the United States and Israel.
o
Took bribes from oil despotisms to protect the worst kinds of
tyranny inflicted every day upon innocent women, children, and men, and upon
Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Bahá'ís,
and even upon atheist Marxists in those countries."
o
Supported and enabled the
oppression of women and girls, including terrorizing them into submission,
wounding them by genital mutilation, and murdering them if they try to escape
the control of their tyrannical families and communities."
o
Used lies and indoctrination as
standard policy tools.
- Six phases (Sally Morabito)
to undermine democracy and convert to communism:
o
Laying the groundwork
– generation long process when minds can be closed to reason and more
influenced by emotion and propaganda. Identity politics, dependence on
government, breakup of family unit, suppression of thought, erasing collective
memory, and bureaucratization are all essential.
o
Propaganda
– the process by which power elites condition individuals through
psychological manipulation to adapt to an agenda. Language is manipulated; history is
revised; journalism is slanted; and political correctness is enforced; ,
o
Agitating the masses
– Street theater serves to shut down freedom of expression. Intense polarization activates
grievances; mobs are mobilized and organized; youth is brainwashed into
thoughtless action figures.
o
Consolidating control over society’s institutions – a communist society cannot
allow any institution to be autonomous, so they must be absorbed by the state
and serve the state. The state will
take over the family including childhood development, secular education, and
religious instruction.
o
Coercing conformity
– Enforcement is ironclad, fast, and furious. Enforcement is not used to persuade, but
to punish. Psychiatry is used as a political weapon to solidify
compliance. Citizens are enlisted
for surveillance and identification.
o
Final solutions
– Communists will never give up power without a fight. Dehumanization leads to flimsy pretexts
for eliminating the “other.”
Violence is embraced as a means to quell dissent, and enforce social
justice. Religious belief is
suppressed and replaced with atheism as a state religion.
Congress was given the 45
Declared Goals for the Communist Takeover of America in 1963 (from “The
Naked Communist” by Cleon Skousen)
which have all been embraced and implemented by liberal Democrats ever since.
- US
acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war
- US
willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war
- Develop
the illusion that total disarmament by the US would be a demonstration of
"moral strength"
- Permit
free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and
regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
- Extension
of long term loans to Russia and Soviet Satellites
- Provide
American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination
- Grant
recognition of Red China, and admission of Red
China to the UN.
- Set up
East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise
in 1955 to settle the Germany question by free elections under supervision
of the UN
- Prolong
the conferences to ban atomic tests because the US has agreed to suspend
tests as long as negotiations are in progress
- Allow
all Soviet Satellites individual representation in the UN
- Promote
the UN as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand
that it be set up as a one world government with its own independent armed
forces.
- Resist
any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party
- Do away
with loyalty oaths
- Continue
giving Russia access to the US Patent Office
- Capture
one or both of the political parties in the US
- Use
technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions,
by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
- Get
control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism, and
current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of
teachers associations. Put the party line in text books.
- Gain
control of all student newspapers
- Use
student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations
which are under Communist attack.
- Infiltrate
the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
- Gain
control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.
- Continue
discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic
expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all
good sculpture from parks and buildings", substitute shapeless,
awkward, and meaningless forms.
- Control
art critics and directors of art museums. " Our
plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art".
- Eliminate
all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a
violation of free speech and free press.
- Break
down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography, and
obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.
- Present
Homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as "normal, natural, and
healthy".
- Infiltrate
the churches and replace revealed religion with "social"
religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual
maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch"
- Eliminate
prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds
that it violates the principle of "separation of church and
state"
- Discredit
the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of
step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a
worldwide basis.
- Discredit
the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had
no concern for the "common man".
- Belittle
all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American
history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big
picture:" Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists
took over.
- Support
any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the
culture - - education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health
clinics, etc.
- Eliminate
all laws or procedures, which interfere with the operation of the
Communist apparatus.
- Eliminate
the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
- Discredit
and eventually dismantle the FBI
- Infiltrate
and gain control of more unions.
- Infiltrate
and gain control of big business
- Transfer
some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all
behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but
psychiatrists can understand or treat.
- Dominate
the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of
gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
- Discredit
the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
- Emphasize
the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents.
Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to
suppressive influence of parents.
- Create
the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of
the American tradition; that students and special interest groups should
rise up and make a "united force" to solve economic, political,
or social problems.
- Overthrow
all colonial governments before native populations are ready for
self-government.
- Internationalize
the Panama Canal.
- Repeal
the Connally Reservation so the US can not prevent the World Court from seizing
jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction
over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and
individuals alike.
Tea Party Principles of Beliefs and
Practices to Oppose:
Principles of Belief |
Practices to Oppose |
Declaration of Independence, the Bill
of Rights and the original intent of the US Constitution |
Judicial arbitrary activism,
Legislative arrogance, Executive unaccountability |
Reducing the size and limiting the
scope of the Federal and State governments |
Continuous expansion of government
and micromanagement bureaucracy |
Protecting state's sovereignty
as ensured by the 9th and 10th Amendment |
Federal supremacy fallacy,
uncontrollable general welfare and commerce clauses |
Reduce the deficit, balance the
budget and a restore Constitutional sound money |
Unchecked and unnecessary spending,
borrowing and debasement of the currency |
Replace the burdensome and unfair US
tax laws that destroy the middle class |
Capricious tax obligations,
“special interest” exemptions and burdensome reporting |
Defense of a Free Market System that
encourages economic wealth creation |
Corporate/State economy, outsourcing
globalism, NAFTA GATT, Wall Street monopoly |
Protecting and preserving traditional
2nd Amendment rights |
Restrictions on means of personal
self-protection, federal control of state Militia |
Institution of Term Limits as a means
to address political corruption and accountability |
Permanent incumbent culture,
dominance by two party, corporate candidate donations |
Restoration of a society that reflect
Jeffersonian respect for Western Civilization |
Secular humanism, global treaty
mandates, world currency, assault on time-honored values |
Natural Rights of citizens are eternal; arbitrary governments
forfeit legitimacy |
Arrogance and criminal conduct of
Central Government tyranny and Presidential Despotism |
Principles:
America was founded on a short list of
broadly stated, fundamental principles:
- Our liberties come
from our Creator, not from our government.
- The authority to
govern comes from God through the people.
- Human nature tends
toward evil and not toward good.
- Government, being
obligated to restrain human nature, must be obliged to restrain itself.
- The Declaration of Independence is our nation’s founding
document, not the Constitution.
- The Constitution was the foundational organizational document on
how we would govern ourselves.
- National Sovereignty is a foundational principle established in the
Declaration of Independence.
- The traditional family unit is an official fundamental social value
essential in America.
- Freedom of religion and open religious expression is a foundational
American principle.
- National security is the primary purpose and function of the
federal government.
- Capitalism is the official American economic principle.
Three ideas that separate
conservatives from liberals:
·
Progressives and those who sympathize with them are
economically risk-averse compared with conservatives.
·
Progressives benefit enormously from the fact that
economic inequality matters much more to Americans than conservatives like to
admit.
·
Conservatives see people as assets, and
progressives see people as liabilities.
Reasons Socialism is inferior to
Capitalism:
- Capitalism
produces faster growth than Socialism.
- Capitalism works
in concert with human nature while Socialism works against it.
- Capitalism
rewards merit, Socialism rewards mediocrity.
- Capitalism is
freedom while Socialism is slavery.
- The marketplace
does a much better job of allocating resources than Socialism’s
central planning.
Ten Tenets of Conservatism,
originally authored by Rev. William J. H. Boetcker in
1916:
- You cannot bring about prosperity by
discouraging thrift.
- You cannot help small men by tearing down
big men.
- You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening
the strong.
- You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling
down the wage payer.
- You cannot help the poor man by destroying
the rich.
- You cannot keep out of trouble by spending
more than your income.
- You cannot further the brotherhood of man
by inciting class hatred.
- You cannot establish security on borrowed
money.
- You cannot build character and courage by
taking away men’s initiative and independence.
- You cannot help men permanently by doing
for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Conservatism is based on first
principles providing the core framework for an internally consistent and
meaningful policy agenda:
- It sustains conservatism's appreciation for the central place of
individual liberty in American political life.
- It informs our resistance to the liberal shift from equality of
opportunity to equality of results.
- It supports America's national interest in advancing freedom in the
world but prudently considers what we can and should do in that cause.
- It demands the appointment of judges who understand that their
proper function is to uphold the Constitution, not make social policy
according to their own pop-philosophy.
- It shores up the idea of free markets and encourages policy reforms
grounded in market-based solutions.
- It works against unsustainable federal spending and the fiscal
burdens placed on future generations by uncontrolled entitlements.
- It informs conservatism's defense of family, neighborhood, local
community, and church.
The Principles of Conservatism:
- The federal government exists to preserve
life, liberty and property, and it is instituted to protect the rights of
individuals according to natural law. Among these rights are the sanctity
of life; the freedom of speech, religion, the press, and assembly; the
right to bear arms; the right of individuals to be treated equally and
justly under the law; and to enjoy the fruits of ones
labor.
- The federal government’s powers are
limited to those named in the Constitution and should be exercised solely
to protect the rights of its citizens. As Thomas Jefferson said,
“The government closest to the people serves the people best.”
Powers not delegated to the federal government, nor prohibited by the
Constitution, are reserved to the states or to the people.
- Judges should interpret and apply our laws
and the Constitution based on their original meaning, not upon judges’
personal and political predispositions.
- Individuals and families—not
government—make the best decisions regarding their and their
children’s health, education, jobs, and welfare.
- The family is the essential foundation of
civil society, and traditional marriage serves as the cornerstone of the
family.
- The federal deficit and debt must not place
unreasonable financial burdens on future generations.
- Tax policies should raise only the minimum
revenue necessary to fund constitutionally appropriate functions of
government.
- America’s economy and the prosperity
of individual citizens are best served by a system of free enterprise,
with special emphasis on economic freedom, private property rights, and
the rule of law. This system is best sustained by policies promoting free
trade and deregulation, and opposing government interventions in the
economy that distort markets and impair innovation.
- Regulations must not breach constitutional
principles of limited government and the separation of powers.
- America must be a welcoming
nation—one that promotes patriotic assimilation and is governed by
laws that are fair, humane, and enforced to protect its citizens.
- Justice requires an efficient, fair, and
effective criminal justice system—one that gives defendants adequate
due process and requires an appropriate degree of criminal intent to merit
punishment.
- International agreements and international
organizations should not infringe on American’s constitutional
rights, nor should they diminish American sovereignty.
- America is strongest when our policies
protect our national interests, preserve our alliances of free peoples,
vigorously counter threats to our security, and advance prosperity through
economic freedom at home and abroad.
- The best way to ensure peace is through a strong
national defense.
Recommendations:
Political parties must wrest control back
from their lunatic fringe leadership.
- Amend the Hatch Act (or
the President issue an executive order) to prohibit all White House staff
members from participating in partisan political activity in any capacity
during the time they serve in government.
Hold politicians personally responsible
for their words (half truths, exaggerations, fabrications).
- Track
exaggeration vs. actual results of historical forecast accuracy.
- Focus elections
on issues, not on personalities.
Hold politicians responsible for results
of legislation (costs, benefits, organization).
- Link
congressional votes to the taxes constituents pay.
- Demonstrate
individual impact of spending votes.
- Identify
unintended consequences.
Make voting mandatory for all citizens in
every election to provide feedback to the government.
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“Is a National Identity Necessary? Left-Right
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