When thinking about who to vote for this November, consider what type of country you want to live in. Here are the two options. These options encompass our past and our present.
Option 1: A constitutional republic with a robust bill of rights, governed by citizens according to the principles of democratic republicanism, guided by the classically liberal values of free speech, conscience, assembly, association, individualism, and limited government, where the family and community are the core institutions organizing social life, who can depend on government to protect them—their neighborhoods and their livelihoods—from crime and disorder.
Option 2: A corporate state governed by bureaucrats operating via administrative rule, regulatory control, and technocratic means, guided by the progressive values of censorship, compelled thought, tribalism, collectivism, and expansive intrusive government, where corporations and state agencies organize social life at the expense of family and community. Families and communities cannot depend on the government to protect them from crime and disorder.
Once you decide which country you want to live in, the next question is which political party will help you realize that country. Here we hit a snag since the hegemonic strategy of the ruling elite has been over the last several decades to put before the people two political parties that appeal to different class, cultural, and intellectual sensibilities, while perpetuating the status quo—corporate state control over the masses. This is the uniparty establishment.
Considering this, the question shifts to the history of each party and a determination of which party is reformable.
One party, the party of the caste, slavery, segregation, and woke is not reformable. It’s the party of the corporate state phoenix that rose from the ashes of the slavocracy. Its rules are exclusive, its operatives tightly controlled. It is moreover the party of those who captured the administrative apparatus—progressives. If you prefer Option 2, then this is your party.
The other party, founded as a populist antislavery party, because it is more open to popular forces in the grassroots, despite having been captured by corporate power and relegated for decades to the role of controlled opposition, is already being transformed internally by reformers who are articulating the vision described in Option 1. So, if a constitutional republic is the country you want to live in, the Republican Party, while not perfect, is the better option.
Restoring the American Republic to greatness requires returning the Republican Party to its roots by supporting populist activists and candidates. The people must do this at the same time they weaken the Democratic Party by withdrawing support for its candidates and refusing to submit to administrative rule. It’s time to return the United States to her people—the American citizen.
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