There is another future, will the Republicans offer it? Can we change our values and priorities, do we want to? by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
There ia an absolute need for a new 21st Century vision of America.
At this time, what America needs from the Republican Party is a complete alternate view, with supporting political, social, and economic philosophies for the United States in the twenty – first century. I am not sure they have it in them.
Over the past half century progressive – liberal social engineers have developed, presented and greatly implemented their view of what America should be. This view has included socialism, diversity, globalism, centralized government, and even aspects of culture which include a shattered traditional family and the inclusion of immoral and amoral language and entertainment. International corporations, Wall Street, and America’s Main Street have participated enthusiastically in all aspects of the liberal vision. America’s public schools and higher level institutions have been an effective means to instill a new “American persona” which ignores God and Christianity, re-writes history to place a negative impression of the generations and people who created the United States.
The Republicans have had no all-encompassing vision which could compete with that of the liberals. Instead, they have fought a battle of tactical delay attempting to act as a brake to “social progress.” The only real brake to the progressives has been the reality of economics and lack of resources. Despite outing the United States 14 trillion dollars in debt, the Democrats were still able to pass the most expensive program yet conceived, Obama Care, national health insurance.
Many, including myself, have written that America is at a cross roads. But these crossroads are ill defined. We can clearly see where the progressive road goes. We can see an end to the states as sovereign political entities. We can see a centralized government with tentacles reaching in all directions down through the states to counties, cities, towns and even onto the farm. We can see less and less local control, and less value on the individual. The loss of 50 million innocent American unborn reflects a society which no longer embraces “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for each God created soul.
The Republicans, because they are as infiltrated by special interests as the Democratic party has refused to take a clean white sheet of paper and conceive a new America, one that can exercise the values and principles of the Founding Fathers. It is true that Democrats will not allow a Pro life Speaker at their political convention, but the Republicans have also barred and censured speakers from topics which could touch deep roots in much of America. Republican speakers cannot talk about nationalism in terms of economic policy, or a withdrawal from the position of world leader, despite the fact that we are no longer the leader of the Free world.
For the Republicans to be a real expression of American potential in the twenty first century, they must first realize we are in a brave new world. The challenges of today are very different from the past, and from the false ones of manmade global warming and worldwide terrorism which both major parties have affixed their futures too.
Let me suggest that the new world order consists of approximately 200 hundred separate nations. Each of these nations deals with their own limitations in terms of economics, their history, and the region they reside in. Though new technologies allow worldwide communication making known the problems and challenges they face, this technology does not magically provide answers. Instead, in my view, it distracts America from dealing with its own failings. The weight of world misery is tossed a top the pile of national needs to cause even more unfinanced spending. While President Bush could NOT find a means to defend and protect the southern border of his own nation, he could create a large expenditure to fight the spread of HIV in Africa!
Neo conservatives were able to move along the American commitment to Israel, engage America in several wars in the Middle East, and open the American marketplace to the rape and pillage of foreign industries and manufacturers. The vision of a large elk taken down by several meat eating predators comes to mind; the helpless creature dragged down is devoured alive, nothing but bones, and the remnants of the less tasty organs left for the flies.
So let’s pull out that clean white sheet of paper and begin to evaluate where we, the United States, is today.
We stand alone. There are other nations, the United kingdom, Israel, Mexico, who look to America for their needs. But there is no NATO or alliance of free democratic capitalist republics who stand together, equally strong, equally giving to the good of all. No, we stand alone.
There is no such thing as Free Trade Because of our past, because of the expenses of the Cold War and because of foolish, progressive and socialist decisions we have over committed the United States to more than 14 trillion dollars of debt. The cost of doing business in America is no longer an advantage, rather it is a major impediment. Whether it be organized labor, the cost of health care, regulations which restrict or deny the exploration and development of US natural resources, and the heavy federal and state tax burden, the cost of doing business in America’s dwarfs the cost of most third world nations. America carries a fat, ridiculously bloated and by a full half too large higher education infrastructure which creates degreed people to flip hamburgers in McDonald’s, while much needed vocational skills are demeaned and spit upon by those of the Harvard – Yale axis.
Capitalism is still an economic reality, but at this point in time, America and Americans operate at great disadvantage to the rest of the world. Simply put a combination of too smart financial and fiscal thinking has placed American industry at a huge disadvantage across the planet.
God and Christianity has been marginalized, ejected from governance, and pushed from the mainstream. I will not go into it here, but suffice it to say that the first three hundred years of American development was shaped, formed, guided by the Christian faith. While revisionists, progressives, libertarians, and the rest attempt to erase this history, enough survives to quickly dismiss their lies. But, they have been successful in shoving God into the closet, once reserved for homosexuals.
One of the central foundations of America is that each human being is equal in worth and value. And this basic cornerstone comes from the belief that each individual has a God created soul, and is a vessel for God. If each citizen carries God, the Almighty, than any mistreatment of an individual is a mistreatment of God. It’s basic, fundamental, and sets the framework for all other decisions. But Roe v. Wade erased that cornerstone. Each individual is NOT equal to every other.
In my view, there is no one single change which has done more to change America for the worst. All that now goes in wrong in America can be traced back to our decision as a nation to eject God from governance. What we reap, we shall sow.
American uniqueness, unlimited opportunity and exceptionalism have been largely corrupted by US academia and Euro enlighten. It took hundreds of years for Europe to finally ensnare America into its failed vision of the world. America had been formed by men and women who rejected Europe. America’s ancestors had left Europe for a wild, untamed, unprotected, unsettled place. They did that, in large part, for two reasons; in pursuit of getting closer to God through the practice of their faith, and because the Euro system, controlled by special interests, was stagnant and allowed real opportunity to their individual citizens.
American values, like work, saving, selective consumption, self-reliance, an appreciation for quality, an acceptance of limits, a love of the land, and a recognition of the place of God in daily life all have been removed. Perspective has been lost.
So let’s look at the revolutionary philosophies or ideas which should be included in a new vision for America.
American nationalism Absolutely contrary to the existing philosophy of globalism, and rejecting the idea of diversity, American nationalism would recapture the essence of what it was, and should be to be America. This essence includes a Christian center, a belief that America is a special people given a new chance by the Almighty God. American nationalism re-embraces the idea that our nation is a confederation of fifty states. That each state is sovereign unto itself. That each state is pre-eminent when it comes to social issues, and the shaping of society. That within the United States are regions with identities formed by history, geography, climate, and economics. That the great strength of America is this regional diversity, and the ability to coordinate the different regions towards a national purpose and being.
American nationalism is built on the Bible, the Constitution and capitalism within the borders of the United States. We attempt to level the playing field within the borders of our nation so that our economy can develop free of artificial, man controlled advantages. But we recognize that there is no such thing as capitalism in a world environment. We recognize that each nation is a composite of many different aspects, the economy being only one of the aspects. And that each nation has its own aspirations, priorities and beliefs.
This American nationalism has to set aside all the artificial federal class laws and benefits and go back to the premise of equality of all.
In addition, the Courts need to be trimmed of their power. While they should have the power to declare a law Constitutional, they should have no other power. Either the constitutional or we revert to what previously existed before the law was passed. The Court should NOT have the power to make law. The course of this nation should be set through the Executive and legislative branches. The greatest tyranny to date, the loss of innocent life, was imposed by a Court decision. Fifty million Americans suffered nonexistence through that decision.
National self-sufficiency Maybe no nation can be completely self- sufficient, but to the extent possible American policy should be to create a nation which is self-sufficient. To begin this process we should set a priority to become elf-sufficient in the areas of energy, food, manufacture of weapons, munitions, systems for defense.
Recapture the American marketplace. One of the greatest failures of American governance was the loss of the richest marketplace in the world, the American marketplace, to a world where our value set was anathema. It is no wonder that manufacturing can be done cheaper across the world, when no other nation in the world has the infrastructure costs of our nation. This infrastructure is not just interstates, and harbors. It is all that has been built, funded by the government, for the good of the entire world. Its now time to jettison that infrastructure and its cost, and get back to the business of America.
Replace quantity, with quality and uniqueness as the foundational characteristics of American manufacturing. The value of vocational skills, and the economic worth of quality of product differentiation should be at the center of production decisions. In the past quantity has driven business decision making. It is the central idea behind economic growth..always looking for new markets, new consumers. Money was made by selling more widgets, not by selling a better widget.
Productivity is alien to full employment. At this point in our nation’s history, we are too productive. Now productivity is not just making more of something. It is also in the consolidation of services. For example, we have homogenized our electronic entertainment. When more technology should allow for less expensive regionalized and state controlled media, the opposite has happened. There is one central media, which tells one centralized point of view. There are no other opinions, other thoughts, other values. Only the one which is what all the media is paid to distribute. Thinking is not something encouraged. See life in a different way, not encouraged.
Instead of centralizing, we should be de centralizing. Regionalism should lead fashion, in food, clothes, cars, homes, television, etc, Jobs would explode. Would it cost advertisers more? You bet! Would the consumer become more important in the balance? Absolutely.
This is not a complete vision. And I am sure there are holes. But it is the foundation of a different vision, one that focuses on America, not the world. It is a vision that looks to re-embrace what caused the creation of America. The Republican party may not embrace this vision. But one thing is certain…they do not have a vision of America which is different from the Democrats. They may oppose what the Democrats offer, but they don’t offer a compl
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