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Open Letter to SC GOP
Karen: (Floyd)
Thanks for being there for us small government, big liberty folks who have joined up with the party (rejoined in my case after quitting in disgust a few years back when I found very little difference between the Republicans and the Democrats).
I think you'll find that if the SCGOP can bring in previously disaffected people like me, it will be a LOT stronger and indeed has already benefitted from our influx. We have changed the leadership of several county parties as well as now making up a goodly number of members. If you want to keep us, however, you're going to have to work--hard. I like a lot of what you've done already and hope you'll keep us in mind at all times.
We who consider the U.S. Constitution and states' rights as fundamental to our survival as a state and a country will reinvigorate this party if we are not ignored and are not betrayed. When I say, "we" believe me that I am NOT speaking of a single nor even several organized groups but rather speaking about all those citizens with a general but earnest interest in restoring the fundamentals of natural law in this state and country.
We represent more of the hard working people than those who usually join the party to game the system and win favors for their big businesses or kowtow to special interests for their own aggrandizement.
We are humble in manners and financial resources but we will get the vote out in terms of people-power if the appeal is based on doing what is right and fighting what is wrong. Despite the huge amounts of money spent on campaigns, in the end, the citizens of this state have the vote--not special interest groups and corporations.
We do not seek special favors or government handouts. We do not approve of ANY group plundering another (For further explanation, please see: http://bastiat.org/en/ ) We just want our natural, God-given rights protected by the state government where the federal government has intruded on matters that rightfully belong in our hands to determine.
We will also work to change the state's laws where they have failed us by violating natural law. More than anything, we want our state to restructure itself so that South Carolina can take care of South Carolina. If that means standing up to the federal government, we need leaders who will do that or get out of the way.
Please do not take us for granted. And please do not underestimate our numbers. There is still a lot of us out there that we can appeal to as a party that truly respects the Constitution. They just have to be convinced that they will not be betrayed by those we work to elect.
I think you may find that other states have more conservative third party candidates popping up to challenge the Democrats and the liberal Republican candidates. If the party in this state does not take the arguments back to the fundamental questions of where government's proper role lies under the terms of natural law, you may find the same thing happening here. If the platform of the state party does not include those essential principles that were the basis for the founding of our state and our country, it will not keep those of us who will, in a heartbeat, put principle and honor over politics and, reluctantly, start the hard work of building up a third party.
I've found that those who have been mild supporters or even dues-paying members of the SCGOP often are themselves reinvigorated and energized when presented with the dream of returning our country to the principles of our Founding Fathers. Many are like I was: supporting the GOP in the hopes that it would turn the tide and actually begin the long hard task of restoring our country to a true federal republic. I trust you will do what you can to keep these new folks from quitting in disgust after a while as I have in the past.
You may have noticed that some Democrats and even some so-called Republicans are claiming that the argument during the last decade has been pulled more in a direction that they denigrate in various, often vulgar ways. The direction they're complaining so viciously about is the one that takes us towards actually enforcing the U.S. Constitution vs. routinely ignoring it as most members of both parties currently do. Some even claim that the members of the party who hold this dream are leaving the principles of the Republican Party behind. That may be true if the Republican Party stands for big government, open borders, policing the world, and pandering to corporate and other special interests. I hope that is not the case.
All we want to do is to "Keep It Simple Stupid!" ("K.I.S.S.") as the military aphorism goes. We are only about enforcing the Constitution and the principles it represents such as true equality under the law. Complication breeds corruption--just look at the tax laws for just one example. Simplicity and transparency, on the other hand, breed an environment that encourages citizen participation and a greater number of hard working, successful and spiritually happy people. Government can allow this to happen just by getting out of the lives of those citizens as much as it possibly can which in turn can be achieved by simply enforcing the Supreme Law of the Land.
There are a lot of us out here who have finally had enough and are finding out that there are plenty of others who are willing to work towards that goal as well. Many party members have been compromising over the years because they thought they had to or were ignorant of a better way. WE can bring almost all of the more "moderate" Republicans along with us because WE just want the dream that this country was founded on. We can wave the "Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden, SC flag whereas the big government types can only wave a nearly worthless dollar bill.
WE can give them a choice to go for the gold vs. merely receiving the "participation ribbon." WE dare to make the dream come true rather than to continually compromise with tyranny while sliding down the slippery slope towards "tyranny as usual" that has oppressed people since the invention of government.
Where it has existed in some form or another, the usual form of government has been--with few exceptions during the entire history of human civilization--dictatorial rule. To desire a government that truly represents the common people vs. following the orders of powerful interests and rulers, one really has to be a "radical" and a "revolutionary."
We proudly call ourselves radicals and revolutionaries--just as our Founding Fathers were called by others as well as called themselves. We have to be radical and revolutionary to buck the historic norm. That is not to say we are violent. We much prefer the ballot over the bullet. However, we are, and should be, dangerous to tyranny and our numbers are growing again as people understand the moral logic involved and become themselves hooked on the dream of true liberty.
As a result of both major parties' cooperation with, and working towards, fascism over the past century, the counter-revolutionaries have been firmly in charge for some time now. The Obama administration is only accelerating the process that kept moving towards that end even under Republican presidents like Ronald Reagn though, admittedly, it may have slowed a little then.
We, however, do not want to be on the slow nor the fast train when the tracks are laid down in the direction of absolute tyranny. We want to pick this train up off the rails with our bare hands, turn it around, point it towards liberty, and push it if we have to until its engine can get hot enough to make enough steam to run on its own. With enough of us, that can and will happen. It won't be easy but it can and must be done.
Past generations of Americans, sadly, have let us down. The World War II generation saved the world from Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito, but the enemies' economic system of fascism has defeated and transformed our government and whipped many Americans into being lapdogs of big government. Yet there is still a distinct element of shame in their attitudes, whether they are aware of it or not. (For a comparison of our current situation to a 1939 analysis of fascism at work in Germany, please check this book out: http://mises.org/store/Vampire-Economy-Doing-Business-Under-Fascism-The-P371.aspx )
WE do not accept this.
WE want to hold our heads up as true and proud Americans who SACRIFICED to make things better just as our revolutionary forebears did.
WE want to go down fighting if necessary vs. obsequiously compromising with those enemies of freedom who only gain whereas we only lose in the process of those back-room dealings.
WE want our descendants to know that WE FOUGHT for the dream even if everyone else around us selfishly plundered everything they could from others in the vain attempt to materially fill a spiritual vacuum within their souls.
Everyone of us will be dead in a few short decades. That is guaranteed. We are all mortal. The ideals and principles of natural law, however, are immortal.
We may choose to daily dedicate our spiritual lives to God but if there is ANYTHING in our lives in this material world that is worth fighting for, it has to be the dream of restoring the Constitution and the federal republic nationally and the fundamentals of natural law within our state as well.
The only recognized nobility that should exist in this country is that of mind, character, and spirit as well as the ideas and principles that spring forth thereof. Will the SCGOP take this opportunity to truly transform itself so that it can and will stand up for what is right and fight against what is wrong according to the principles derived from God's natural laws on which this state and this country were founded?
wtc
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