Time for a name change, Anchoress. You ought to be all out for holding fast. At this point in history it should be clear to everyone that the two parties are not oriented by principles but by the pragmatics of power, and they do not want to administer the government for the the people. They want to rule.
The longer we hold our nose and vote for the party–either party–the farther eroded will be the principles upon which the country was founded. Gingrich has it right; conservatives should declare themselves independent of the Republicans. Let that party wither, as it so richly deserves, and start building a new party based upon real representative government instead of rule by a Roman-styled Congress.
But to be successful,conservatives have to shed a lot of bad baggage before they take their case to the people. They will have to be clear that conservatism is about individual freedom as the first principle of government, rather than economic freedom with the devil taking the hindmost. As individual freedom requires autonomy, the primary social program of the government will be directed toward promoting and enabling individual autonomy. That’s the antithesis of promoting a disabling dependence.
But it may be too late.
If you’ve made any sense at all of why Congress and the President are promoting illegal immigration and present international trends, you surely see what’s in store if we continue to drift along with the two parties. We’ll have an Americanadamex nation organized on economic principles–a large peasant class to compete with China, a tech/middle management class, and the managers. Welcome to the age of international corporatism, “Rollerball,” not “Brave New World” or “1984.” Bernard Gross called it “Friendly Fascism.” No, it’s no great conspiracy; it’s nothing more than allowing power to drift as it wishes. It seems everyone wants the US to dissolve into corporatism. The UN desires it. The Euros, having done it themselves, desire it. Multinational corporations desire it. And our own government, increasingly modeled upon corporate principles, apparently desires it as well.
One thing is clear, if we continue to bury our heads in the sands of party politics as usual and hold our noses to vote, the great American experiment is over.
