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We say we believe in "Self
Government" but what does that mean? It means: "You Get Yourself
Into Government".
Mr Thomas,
This morning on the morning show
you described yourself as a "Recovering
Republican".
Please, I would like you to begin
to make the distinction between the Philosophy and the Coalition.
I personally believe with all my
heart that the American Political Philosophy is encapsulated in the
second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence ( "We hold
these truths..." ). I call it "Americanism".
But that philosophy does not, nor
does any philosophy, place our people in position to protect
that philosophy.
Comparing the
"Libertarian" philosophy to the "Republican" Coalition is like comparing the joy of
riding motorcycles to the factory that builds motorcycles.
You may not like the philosophy
of some of the people in the Republican Coalition but it does not help us, who
are taking over the machinery of the coalition, when you make the Coalition one
and the same with the Philosophy.
The proof is in the pudding.
If we become the majority in the candidate selection committees, we will
select people who will enact Americanism ( or Libertarianism, if labels mean so
much ).
The Parties are nothing but
machines, like buses. These buses take people to Columbus and Washington.
It is the driver of the bus you must concern yourself with, not with the
make and model of the bus.
How can you be a "Recovering
Republican"? If you abandon the Coalition to the Royals/Professionals/Progressives, what
have you gained? "What's in a name? A rose by any other name
would smell as sweet". W.S.
I expect, and take some
satisfaction, in being stabbed in the front by the enemies of freedom. I
am ever surprised and dismayed when stabbed in the back by the reputed friends
of liberty.
The background of the statement
is that Brian Thomas, the host of the morning radio show on 55 KRC is
always talking about how he is a "Libertarian".
That's fine as far as it goes, but then he equates the Philosophy
with with the Political Party. Libertarian-ism makes a nice philosophy but it does not
make a very good Coalition ( Party ). It would however make a nice
caucus (sub-coalition) within the Republican Coalition/Party.
Most people in the
"Americanist" movement have not yet made the distinction between the
Philosophy that motivates us and the Process that gets us into position to do
something about it.
Brian Thomas is not the only one
that confuses the two. Many of our own vote for
"Libertarian" Candidates. They think of themselves as "Independents" and have come
to hate the Republican Party. Hating the Republican Party makes as
much sense as hating your school bus because it takes your neighbor to
school but not you, All you have to do it make the effort to get
yourself on that bus. The bus is a mindless machine. Enough of
our own voted "Libertarian" in this past
election that they caused Mike
Wilson to lose to the Democrat by only 5 votes. If our own
understood that "Parties" are nothing but "Coalitions" and had
stuck with the Tea Party Coalition within the Republican Coalition, Mike Wilson
would have won by 1000 votes instead of losing by 5. We would
have had the one vote we needed to pass Health Care Freedom Amendment in
the legislature. We would not have had to go through this exhausting
petition process.
If a Party/Coalition can have a
Philosophy, then that Philosophy is nothing more than the Sum of the
Individual philosophies of the people making up the Party/Coalition. But what is the Party/Coalition? It is the Party's Candidate
Selection Committee ( County Central Committee). If we
Americanists make up a majority of the Candidate Selection Committee, then we get
to pick who will be endorsed in future Primaries.
Most voters vote for the endorsed candidate. Therefore our candidates will win
the Primary which means they get there name on the ballot in the
General which means they have a shot at going to Columbus or
Washington to change the law. We have to
teach our fellows to connect the
dots.
Believing in Americanism does not
make it so. Might does not make Right. Might only
makes Right Possible. We still have to lay the foundation and do the work.
People ARE Policy. If we
want to change the policy, then we must change the people that can change
the policy. And that includes "Candidate Selection"
Policy.
Policy = People = Process.
We must master the process. Focus on the lowest rungs of the Political
Process. It is difficult but we must stop worrying about who is
the President, Senator and Congressman. We have
to start worrying about who our Precinct Executive is. It is
they who pick our candidates. The Precinct Exec truly is the highest office in
the land.
If we take a little over half of
the 300,000 precincts in America, we win. Based on just the numbers
of us that went to rallies, there are at least 9 of us per precinct.
We only have to find these folks and get them into the Candidate
Selection Committees (Precinct Exec). You cannot vote in any other
precinct but your own. Therefore. from outside your precinct you can
change nothing; from within your precinct, you can change
everything. It's like what the old folks used to say: "Take
care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves".
In politics, just substitute Pennies for Precinct and Dollars for Policy.
The principle is the same.
We already know what we are going
to do when we get to Columbus and Washington. What we need to
learn now is how to drive the bus that will get us there.
Rick Herron
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