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The important task of conservatism is the struggle to maintain the distinction between culture and politics and more importantly the priority of culture over politics; the merging of the two being the principle characteristic of totalitarianism. America has had secularist social policy thrust upon us in an undemocratic way. This is what we fight. We are conservatives first, Republicans second.
The goal of Koochiching County Republicans (BPOU) is to 1. Support Republican candidates at all levels, 2. Influence the platforms and agendas of the state party and its candidates and 3. Improve the perception of Republicans and articulate conservative policy and ideas in our community.
We are culturally conservative; usually referred to as traditionalist. Love of God, Family, and Country is our battle cry. More accurately we are northern, that is Midwestern, paleo-conservative. This means we understand the importance of culture in society and it’s distinction from government at every level. We support low, simple, and fair taxation and small government especially at the federal level. We believe in Federalism and that the government closest to the people is the most responsive and effective. The new federalism we embrace means selling or granting all national forests, BLM lands, and some national parks back to their respective states for proper and prudent management. We do support the Federal government enforcing clean air and clean water standards and green house gas limitations; based on objective science. But the time has come to get the Federal government out of land, water, and wildlife management as it has proven to be a disaster, and our states and counties do such an outstanding job at it. We also believe in American industry and in essential parts in our economy for a long term vision of jobs, a diverse national economy, growth, self-sufficiency, and national defense. Further we believe in the organic community; strong society separate from the state, by the ‘little platoons’ of society. Our conservatism stands against the idea of ‘mass man’, post-modernity, and the bureaucratic managerial revolution we face everywhere. We believe in protecting and enabling the moral incubators or mediators against the state at home and international government abroad.
We believe the family is the building block of our society and in the sanctity of all human life. We will always promote a culture of life. We believe in the importance of small business and the middle class as important institutions in America. Less taxes and regulation for individuals and small businesses, we insist upon. We believe in the wide spread distribution of property and wealth among private citizens, not by government forced redistribution but by subsidiarity, the ‘ownership society’, and encouraging individual innovation and hard work. This can be achieved through economic growth which is often accomplished by supply-side tax cuts. We support supply side tax policy, not based on ideology per say, but because it is proven to work; allowing persons with money to invest, this creates growth and that growth creates jobs. Private industry and citizens use money far more efficiently than government. We support demand-side (middle class) tax cuts as well. We support closing corporate loopholes in taxation. We agree that private property is a foundational human right. We support the idea of natural law and reject positive law theory. We recognize the traditionalist nexus in America manifested in Evangelicalism, Roman Catholicism, and other traditionalist faiths including Mormons, orthodox Jews, Pentecostals, and anyone of an orthodox stripe. We believe there is a resurgence in traditionalism both politically and culturally.
We value freedom of religion and acknowledge that the freedom means public expressions of faith. Religion is a personal matter, not a private matter. The heritage of the nation is orthodox Christian, both Catholic and Protestant, though our nation today may best be described as secularist, a fact that we grieve. We reject the humanist world views of Cultural Marxism, Secular-progressivism, and Cosmic Humanism and the variety of philosophies (positivism, reductionism, relativism, deism, determinism, naturalism, Darwinism) that these world views encompass. Our world view is Judeau-Christian. In that tradition we believe in liberty to accomplish virtue. We believe the role of government is to protect its citizens, keep order, administer justice, and promote freedom while demanding individual responsibility. We do however embrace all supporters who are not traditionalist - the many Americans who support peace through strength, low taxes, and smaller government yet who may not be traditionalist, per say. We reject atheism, naturalism, dialectical materialism, ethical relativism, Darwinian evolution, world government, positive law, socialism, and determinism. Instead we embrace a society which has three main pillars - the home, the church, and the state. Also natural law, subsidiarity, and stewardship of private property.
We support the teaching of creation science within our churches and families and insist on Intelligent Design being taught side-by-side with macro evolution in public schools. This is the strategy to destroy the philosophies predominant in academia of Naturalism and Darwinism; the basis of their world view. We seek only truth be given a fair hearing and we embrace the only world view that actually works. We believe that the only way to improve the quality of education in America is by way of competition and thus strenuously support private schools, home schooling, education tax credits, school vouchers, charter schools, and many of the other education alternatives. We support the dismantling of the public education system and the teacher’s union that supports that current system. Although we support federal aid for education, we believe the US Department of Education is an unneeded bureaucracy. What social science teaches and writes undermines all traditional thought and belief. History is lineal and the divine providence of God can be seen throughout it, from creation to the present day; conservatives have always been students of history.
We are often described as economic centrists, but not moderates. Our proposals are radical but differ from other Republicans and neo-conservatives. Our idea of a just society, in economic terms, is that of G.K. Chesterton, Eugene McCarthy, and Wilhelm Ropke. We do recognize that government can only do so much and that individual responsibility is essential to prosperity more than government policy. Stewardship of private property is what we embrace, whether in environmental policy or in economic policy (home ownership, small business, private retirement accounts). We believe that social security should eventually be privatized and that health savings accounts are another important factor in the ownership society. The great American middle class exists due to the hard work of the American people, economic growth, and technological capitalism. We lament the continued ties the Republican party has to big business, the multi-national corporations, and the perception it leaves on Americans.
We believe in the right of individuals to bargain collectively, when employed by private industry, not when being employed as public employees or teachers. We believe that unionization in private industry, although often not a macro economic benefit, is not an economic threat nor is the minimum wage. We support open shop policy in which no individual be forced to join a union as a condition of employment. We support domestic capitalism because it is the most effective way to have economic growth and that growth is the most effective way to create jobs and increase the standard of living. Capitalism is also the most effective way of harnessing human self-interest toward a positive for society.
We try to carefully word our statements to draw clear distinctions between the secular and secularism, a multi-racial society and multiculturalism, science and scientism, micro and macro evolution, distributism and income redistribution.
We believe that the individual income tax should be eliminated for at least the lowest 90% of income earners and that the top income earners pay a flat rate never to exceed 30%. That the payroll tax be expanded to be paid on 7% of all income not subject to the individual income tax (matched by employers), new and young workers having private accounts, and increasing the age of drawing social security. We reject the platform statement that calls for no taxes on Internet sales and support a federal Internet sales tax of 7%. Our tax system should be based on consumption and not success/production. Finally a 25% tariff on all imports except petroleum should be implemented. We support updating the federal unemployment insurance to the ‘temporary earnings replacement account’ or TERA system. We support low worker’s compensation insurance rates. We do support the Earned Income Tax credit as a sort of negative income tax to be expanded to replace other welfare programs for families with children. We believe in a balanced budget except in times of severe recession or war and balancing the budget with spending cuts. We support transparency with taxation - so we know when we are paying. We support user fees for public services to pay for those programs and that programs such as the NEA and PBS raise their own funds rather than be funded by taxes.
We reject Lockean classical liberalism that teaches that a utopian world peace is achievable by international free trade. We are well aware of the law of comparative advantage and reject it when all things are taken into consideration; regarding free trade. There is no warm place in our hearts for multi-national corporations who embrace America only for our consumer market. We instead subscribe to a conservatism more closely associated with the great traditionalists: Edmond Burke, G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and Russell Kirk. Rejecting the ideology of the global economy is not endorsement of a controlled economy. The biggest promoters of international free trade are also promoters of the IMF, United Nations taxation, the World Trade Organization, progressive domestic income taxation, the Federal Reserve system, and on and on. Again, we support domestic capitalism in all countries. We believe in commercial (trade), cultural, and diplomatic ties with all nations, but not at the cost of American safety, industrial self-sufficiency, and jobs. With America being the largest economy and largest consumer market in the world, we believe that trade can be and should be on - our terms. Free trade has served American interests in previous decades. When Ronald Reagan promoted free trade it was a much different world - a Cold War world. Free trade has accomplished some things but the day is quickly approaching when American self-sufficiency will not be sacrificed on the alter of globalism. Being that every value-added product can be produced somewhere else in the world at an average cost of 25% less than what it can be produced at in America, primarily due to taxes, regulation, and labor costs, the only way to set the playing field level is to have a 25% tariff on all imports. Inflationary disaster would not occur due to price elasticity of imports and our huge consumer market. Supply and demand would take care of the rest and some industries would come home.
We support the Rural Renaissance Act for economic development funds for small towns and rural areas across America and in a variety of industries including light manufacturing, technology and energy. We support policy ensuring small towns and rural areas have the needed technology and infrastructure to enable economic vitality. We also support domestic oil exploration including drilling in ANWR as well as a diverse energy policy which includes nuclear energy and clean coal technologies.
On immigration, we agree that the Republican Party (and the Federal government) has failed America for more than two decades. We support the President’s guest worker program for existing illegal immigrants, as well as a heavily guarded Mexican border, and a closely monitored Canadian border that generously allows travel and trade. We further support tight port security for incoming goods and persons. We support a one-year immigration time-out period in which no immigration is allowed and after that a policy of 250,000 to 500,000 Western Hemisphere immigrants (mostly Mexicans) and 250,000 overseas immigrants. We support a policy of assimilation and order for immigration. We support recently passed legislation for 700 mile fencing along the land-border of Mexico.
On affirmative action, we support affirmative action in education based on merit and economic disadvantage and we do not support affirmative action based on other criteria. We totally reject sexual orientation as a means of minority status or preferential treatment and we support a federal Marriage Protection Amendment.
On foreign policy we support preemptive strikes of rogue states which encourage terrorism. However we do not support nation-building, peace-keeper endeavors such as the current situation in Iraq. We support the unconditional support of Israel. We believe that multi-national diplomacy with Iran is the best approach because we see no military solution. We support removing the regime in North Korea by military action, and a subsequent united Korea. We support cutting our aid to the United Nations in half and getting out of the World Trade Organization. We agree that the Democrat Party today is covertly the McGovernite party and has consistently been anti-military and anti-war at any cost, and instead diplomatic at any cost. The history of Democrat foreign policy has been one of appeasement and miscalculations resulting in later disasters. We support an America-first foreign policy and defending national sovereignty at all costs. We believe that the United Nations is an over blown international bureaucracy which now enables human rights abusers and America-haters to create the agenda. Even ‘Western’ leadership in the international bureaucracies are socialist and internationalist. Although we envision nothing but problems from the United Nations in the future we do not suggest getting out, but rather participating to the best of our ability in the inept, Leviathan, debating society. We see little other choice. We do not support foreign aid for AIDS prevention and call for withdrawing all support for UNESCO. The United States should not bow to any international law that we do not support.
We support the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms. We are encouraged by recent legislation of right to carry laws and castle doctrine to defend one’s home.
We support strict constitutional judges and the taming of the liberal activist judiciary, which acts as a tyrant in America. This may be the most important issue today.
Significant and interesting quotes to ponder
“For all the ism’s today that go into modern liberal thought (secularism, materialism, post-modernism, et. al) none is perhaps more accurate than modern Gnosticism.”
“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.” George Washington
“Substantial parts of various American churches (mainline Protestant and liberation theology Catholics)… have been active on the side of communist insurrection.” National Review
“I am now just as I have always been, a convinced communist.” Mikhail Gorbachev
“Faith is the central problem of this age.” Whitaker Chambers
“McCarthy (Senator Joseph) was right!”
“The largest single group supporting the Communist apparatus in the United States today is composed of (mainline) Protestant clergymen.” Senator Joseph McCarthy 1953
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking around.” GK Chesterton
“There has existed in the West for some time a kind of ‘soft’ totalitarianism that has the same effect as the old communist regime governments, yet ultimately has the same effect, although it is achieved more circuitously and slowly, and less painfully.” (Trotsky-style cultural Marxism of higher criticism, critical theory, political correctness, socialism, and attacks on traditional institutions)
“The pragmatic solutions of today can be found in American conservatism.”
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