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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
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– January 13, 2010
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[...] by Michael W. Dean, Libertarian Punk [...]
I have no faith in the ability of a third party to rise up and save the day.
This is the only means we have to restore our republic.
The Republican Party is completely tarnished and defiled beyond repair. Its “big tent” philosophy and “God Squad” mentality will prevent an Individualist such as myself for supporting it. I would rather see the Republic fail as an experiment, that others might learn from our stupidity, then letting it proceed on its current path of mediocrity for all to pillage and fuck like a simple whore. And saying this, breaks my heart.
So what’s your plan?
MWD
I asked the electorate for their support and was voted by the town to serve on the Planning Board (2009-2011). I next will run for Selectman. Beyond that, I might make it to the State House (rep) but am unelectable beyond.
We need one fucking state to say “NO”. Texas, maybe. NH, Alaska, WY, maybe. Our hope, I believe, is in a statewide quasi-secession action, and not fighting at the Federal level…it’s too far gone. But if one state takes hold, another might follow. Then, you’ve got a real movement on your hands.
The democracy hounds want us to fight at the Federal level because they know that all we can accomplish is a slowing of the process. And those fuckers really chafe my arse.
By the way, I appreciated the thought required to put the “Open Letter to the…” together. You are an excellent writer. And before you go thinking I’m down for some bromance, go fuck yourself.
Aw….shucks, Christopher.
MWD
You are operating under a sort of high school civics class level of reality; your letter takes as an underlying assumption that democracy exists, that the Republic works, and that the political parties represent something akin to the will of the American people.
I do not believe this is true. To me, the posturing of the two parties and their cohorts in the corporate media are just the antics of two-bit actors in a grand political theater. Part of that theater involves actual debate on issues of no economic merit, irrelevant to entrenched elites — gay marriage or flag-burning or what have you.
Other debates have the character of black comedy, as if we’re prison inmates voting on what sort of punishment we shall take: “Rape us with a broken bureaucracy and mandatory insurance!” “No, rape us with sky-high premiums and unaffordable patent drugs!”
But when it comes to real issues that really matter to the ruling class — expanding the police state, unconditional support for Israel, billions of dollars given to bankers, military control of global resources, uncontrolled immigration, destroying civil liberties and legislating the Bill of Rights into oblivion — on those issues, there is no debate. On those issues, the bipartisan tyranny is utterly beholden to entrenched, transnational oligarchies and multinational, corporate interests – the real owners of this country.
So which view is correct? If the political parties matter, if they can be changed, if they are responsive to ‘the people’ and obedient to the Constitution, then how is that we have anomaly after anomaly, crime after crime, scandal after scandal, any single one of which would be considered treasonous, or at least felonious, meriting a full scale investigation under a normal, competitive political system with a vigilant, free press; but they all go essentially unreported, uninvestigated, unremarked upon, and are essentially unknown to most citizens.
I refer to events such as: Jane Harman’s openly reported treasonous phone call with a known Israeli spy; illegal outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame; criminal pass-through of billions of dollars from the Treasury through AIG to Goldman Sachs; the scandalous death of Mike Connell; the mysterious rise of Barack Obama from obscure state senator to U.S. President, and who paid for it; criminal collusion between Republicans and Democrats to suppress third parties; multi-billion dollar no-bid contracts for various war profiteers with direct Establishment ties; continued obsequiousness and support for murderous dictators like the Saudi princes, disgusting misogynistic torturers and financiers of terrorism; falsifying intelligence for the invasion of Iraq; systematic kidnapping and torture of terror suspects; widespread warrant-less wiretapping and spying on the American people; executive assassination squads; the use of white phosphorus and depleted uranium; and so on and so forth, ad nauseam.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” –Adam Smith
I’m not any fan of the Republican party as it stands and has stood for the past 40 or howevermany years…but if they come to their senses, “go rouge” so to speak and start switching to liberty minded candidates like Paul they might stand a good chance of making some difference. And I know that that’s about as likely as a successful 3rd party….but surely they realize that people are thoroughly sick of the Bush/Reagan/Nixon shit.
They could start by ending this ridiculous “religious right” thing;
From a “how can we get votes” point of view that should appeal the the GOP, fundamentalism isn’t growing, it’s shrinking. Atheism/agnosticism is growing, more and more young people are curious about that, not to mention new age/”paganism” (Wicca, Asatru, Satanism, pick any). If they want to be garunteed votes now and in the future, they’ll quit pandering to the fundies and start paying some attention to this crowd, right now the libs have a monopoly on it. This is the main thing that keeps me from ever voting republican, if they would leave women’s rights and gays the fuck alone I might consider it.
Fundamentalism used to “work”, Back in the day if Pat Robertson said to vote for someone, people would. And look at him now, a sad little man who resorts to insulting whole races of people after a major disaster to get ratings, even most christians now won’t give him the time of day. The bible-belt good-ole boys network ain’t what it used to be…I wish they would realize that.