The Party fights and squabbles leading up to the primary,
yet once the primary is done the Party is no more united then it was before the
primary. Instead the different groups split off and call each other RINO or
claim that because this candidate does not agree with me on X they are not a
real Republican.
Unity
Purity testing is killing the Party and causing it to
fractionate. The Party lacks any sort of unity outside of the name Republican.
The sentiment is if you do not believe what I, a real
Republican, believe then I am simply going to stay home on Election Day and
refuse to vote. Or I will write a name in or simply not send in my ballot because
I do not want to waste a stamp.
If you fail to compromise within the Party then you will
break and you might as well give up and allow a different Party to take your
place. You cannot get everything you want all the time, grow up and make a
sacrifice for the future.
The candidate might not be perfect but they are better than
the alternative and they are more likely to listen to you in the future if you
help get them elected.
Failure to Take
Action
The Republican Party is inert. They do nothing to get out in
the world and get their message out. I have seen more conservative action from
non-political groups then I have ever seen from the Party.
The Democratic Party has several activist groups who attract
attention and get people energized. What does the Republican Party do, argue on
Facebook! Now is the perfect time for a conservative message.
Young men want, no need, to be told that they can take
personal responsibility for their own lives and can make things happen for
themselves. And they actually want to hear this message, just look at the wild
popularity of Jordan Peterson.
People want to be told that you should always tell the truth
and that seeking the truth is a good thing, at the very least do not lie. This
is a conservative message, a message of the church and of science, to seek
Truth above all else.
Instead they are letting the Progressive Left get away with
lying for fear of pissing off their social justice mob. Where are the brave,
strong, tough Republicans who will stand up for Republican values and American values?
They are afraid to say they love America because they do not
want the bad media attention. But the people will see through the media lies.
Use alternative media like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to speak directly to
the people and expose the media for their lies.
Just about every cell phone has a camera now, use it and let
the public decide for themselves.
Instead the Republican’s try to keep their heads down and
hope they can slip in without anyone noticing. How has that worked out so far?
That pain in your chest is your soul rotting because you are more focused on
protecting yourself from Twitter hate mobs then you are for standing up for
Truth, Responsibility, and American Values.
Allows the Left to
Label and Define Us
You let those on the left define what you and the Party are.
They call you racist, bigot, Nazi and what do Republicans do. The fire back
with the word liberal.
It is clear to everyone who the racists and bigots are, just
call them for what they are. What did the Republican Party do when Antifa
threated to attack them if they marched in the Rose Parade on 82nd?
Nothing. The parade got shut down and the Republican Party did nothing.
This looked weak and conceded the point Antifa was making,
that the Republican Party is racist and full of Nazi’s and Fascists. Where was
the push back, where was the pride of the Party to defend their reputation?
The people of Oregon are begging for someone to step up and
stand up to these people, but the Party leaders are too afraid of being called
racist. I understand that the press is against you and you will not get a fair
shake in the court of public opinion but that does not mean you take the easy
road.
You stand up and fight back, take the hard road, accept the
suffering that will be heaped on you and understand that if you are speaking
the truth that it will all come out in the end. Have faith.
You allow the left to control the conversation. You argue
using their words and premises. It is time to reject their premises and prove
them false.
Do the work, challenge Democrats to open debate, make it
public and do your homework before the event starts. Study their tricks and
literature and do not make a fool of yourself. The left does not want their
ideas out in the public and for good reason, they are authoritarian in nature.
Yet the Republican’s just come across as weak and
leaderless. I have attended local meet ups and felt zero energy in the room. We
have a Republican President, house and senate and yet it feels like the Party
is ashamed of winning.
Do not be ashamed of being a conservative or Republican,
conservative and Republican thought and ethics have a place and are valuable.
Pick Up What the Left
has Abandoned
The left has abandoned Free Speech, innocent until proven
guilty, and the universal rights of the individual just to name a few. Instead
the left worships hate speech, social justice, and groups rights.
Free Speech, innocent until proven guilty and universal
rights of the individual are founding principles that most Americans believe in
and will gladly vote for. They have been abandoned as if they are trash on the
side of the road.
All the Republican Party has to do is pick them up, yet they
just look at them as if they were a coiled rattlesnake. You would just have to
read the constitution and the bill of rights as if they were a political playbook
and you will have more votes than you have ever had in the past.
Even if the left tried to argue with you most people still
agree with the bill of rights. They would be arguing against the bill of
rights. They will argue against it, the lefts ideology says it was written by a
bunch of white male slave owners and so it is bad.
Of course they hate it because it gives rights to the
individual and not the group and all they care about are groups, who they then
turn into voting blocks. Yet Republican’s remain silent. They are trying to be
statesman like and proper, the time for being proper is over.
Pick up freedom, hold up liberty, and promote personal
responsibility, because if you do not then no one will. Republicans complain
that the country is being ruined by Progressives, yet they stand by and watch
it all happen.
Republicans seem to be in love with their complaints as
opposed to doing what it takes to do something about them. It is easy to
complain, it is difficult to get real things done.
How about you stand up and fight for the values that made
this country great. People want to hear about conservative values and to be
told that they, as the individual, have the power to change the world, and the
great thing about that message is that it is true!
Why the Republican Party is too afraid to stand up and do
anything is beyond me. Where are the radical Republicans that ended slavery,
fought against Jim Crowe, and stands up for the rights of the individual? Where
are the Republican Activists?
Where are the Republicans who will willingly march into a
Progressive city like Portland and tell the small business owners that they are
there to support them when their livelihood is being overrun by the homeless? The
Progressives organized a protest in favor of the homeless people against the
businesses. Seize the opportunity.
Where are the Conservative thinkers who are not afraid to
stand toe to toe with a Democrat and challenge them with powerful traditional
ideas? Ideas such as the importance of the family and that a family with two
parents in the household is better than single parent families.
Pick up the disaffected liberals in the Democratic Party.
They are sick of the Progressive radicals who are simply authoritarian
socialists and communists or violent anarchists. You just have to appeal to
them in ways they can understand. With classical liberal ideas (read Locke and
Mill and founding fathers).
Instead Republicans just wait for Democrats to fail hard and
hope that they can get voted in simply for not being Democrats. Why not try to
get voted in for being conservative? If you wait the damage done will be irreversible.
What to do
Be controversial. It is not hard because now it is
controversial to say you support Freedom of Speech. Ignore the labels heaped on
you by your political opponents, it is just an attempt to keep you silent so
they do not have to argue against your ideas or principles because they have no
arguments against them.
Be public. Get out and interact with people. Hold your own
events, do not simply attend other events. Go to controversial events and talk
to people. Show people that you will stand up clear and strong.
Be honest. Tell the truth, or at the very least do not lie.
The truth always finds a way to come out and you can either take your knocks
now and improve or you take make it worse and end up losing everything in the
end.
Have thought out arguments and principles. I do not care if
we disagree on them as long as they thought out and strong. Consider criticisms
to your arguments and use them to make your ideas stronger. Make your case
powerful and be ready to face opposition not only in the form of arguments but
also in the form of name calling. You know it is coming so be ready for it.
Have a clear place you want to go and a good reason why we
should go there. If you want to be a leader than lead. Have a vision of the
future, develop a plan for reaching that future and figure out why it is good
that we should go that way as opposed to another way.
I make these criticism and suggestions from my own experience
as a conservative who has lived in Oregon his whole life and has never had a
conservative government in power. I wrote this knowing full well that some
people will be angry about it. If that is you than ask yourself are you angry
because I got it wrong or angry because it hits close to home?
I would be happy to admit I was wrong, as I am still fairly new to the Party, so please correct me if you think I am wrong on some point.
It is time we stand up and fight for the liberties that have
been bitterly won throughout our history. It is time to be active.
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