I have lately been forced to shed an illusion I’ve been enjoying for the last 5 or 6 years. Namely, that the Republican Party has a serious prospect of guiding America.
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I now think this can never take place or is so unlikely to take place that we should not, as individuals, be pouring our limited energy into it. It would be better to use that energy to attain realistic goals.
Possibly the fizzling out of the Republican Party has to do with demographics, or with the corporate media, or a range of factors. But my “shedding of an illusion” is more basic than that. I now see that the role of Party is incorrectly understood.
This first came to my attention when it was announced that such-and-such person was likely to replace the outgoing chairman of the Party in my state — New Hampshire. (I am calling him “Such and Such” to mean it could have been anyone. I have no comment on any actual candidate; the problem is beyond any soul.)
I asked, “What qualities should we be looking for in the new chairman?” This then forced me to wonder, “What does the Chairman ordinarily do? How does he/she support the Republican-minded citizens of his/her state? What programs for the nation is he/she ready to help initiate or augment? How does he/she try to strengthen us (other than by chanting, ‘The Dems are bad, those horrible dems’)?
It had previously been my assumption that my state, and all 50 states, had a way of channeling the goodwill of its Republican Party members to use their strength as a national force. It’s a bit embarrassing to realize that I took that assumption on board in a completely unthinking way. For me, the Party leadership just “was.” I’ll bet you saw it that way, too. “Sure, it’s there. Who could doubt it?”
Actually, I did notice, 16 years ago, if only for a fleeting moment, that when I was an NH candidate for Congress in the Republican primary, the national chairman was Ken Melman, whom I had never heard of and who seemed to have no platform! And at that moment also, Karl Rove was sort of directing the show and yet everything about him smacked of the opposite of republican values.
In 2008 I moved back to Australia for family reasons and was not thinking of office-seeking again. However, in 2017, there was a snap election for US Senate to fill Jeff Sessions’ seat when he became US attorney general. So I catapulted myself into Alabama to run for that position. During my candidacy, I found the Party very welcoming and meaningful. That may have been just my imagination, but at least I didn’t perceive any funny business. At a person-to-person level, it seemed that republicanism was a real energizer. It energized me.
Having lost that primary (to Judge Roy Moore, who then lost it to the Democrat Doug Jones), I ended up back in my Concord, NH digs and gave no thought to a 2018 run. For the 2020 presidential primary, I decided to run for Vice President — NH was one of the states that allow persons to register as a VP candidate. I was aware that a win couldn’t lead to an actual election because we now have the “running mate” system, with a presidential nominee from the summer convention choosing his VP. My aim was to call attention to the unconstitutionality of this. I am a rabid — repeat, rabid — constitutionalist.
When I waltzed into Room 204 at the State House, I was told there was no longer a way to sign up as a VP candidate. I had already gone to the bank, and my $1,000 filing fee, cash, was hot in my hand, so I used it instead to become a presidential candidate. That was a silly gesture, as Trump was running and got 90% of the primary NH vote. It was fun to be an outlier — 929 Granite Staters voted for me. The field of Dems in that primary included Klobuchar, Steyer, Biden, Pocahontas, etc, plus Tulsi Gabbard, who has now said Toodle-oo to the Dems.
Sorry, I’m going off the track with this biography. The fact, which has nothing to do with me, is that a Party is not what we thought. The national chairmanship is specifically disconnected from the population or the principles. Thus America’s Republican Party, as such, has no center, no spinal column, no whatever. I guess it’s a fundraiser and a focus for the preferred candidate. It is certainly a good distraction from America’s real problems.
All of the above is Point One. But now, here is Point Two. We should no longer have political parties. They harm America. And thus we should have something else. I don’t know what, but I can see, from recent events, that Parties harm us. Big Boys at the top (who donate heavily to both parties!) do intend that the party system be used against the nation. After all, they are globalists and hate any unifying of Americans. They want a red-blue fight to be a Thriller in Manila every day of the week.
Examples — Five out of Many
Let me present some examples of harms that could not have occurred if it weren’t for folk’s sense that loyalty to Party demands a shutting down of other moral or practical evaluations.
- Today (January 3) when a Speaker of the House is to be chosen, the attention is not on What do we want in a speaker? It’s on, per usual, “How can we be sure to coax enough votes for McCarthy, as the Republicans are holding the House by a razor-thin majority?” Some repubs who don’t want McCarthy will be labeled traitors if they don’t give him their vote.
(Note: Just a reminder, the vote of every rep, at all times, should be the vote of that district’s constituents. Redness or blueness is not the determining factor.)
- Women should not be in combat positions in the US Army. Any sensible person can see many reasons to find that a good policy. (Our military has lowered all the former physical standards to accommodate women’s lower scores, y’know). But with the Dems representing wokeness, sensible reasons do not come into play. “Party strength” comes into play. Politicians are afraid to speak sensibly. They have to have an eye on how this will affect their re-election.
(Note: I assume Dems today are afraid to speak against any woke position, such as drag queens at Library Story Hour. See what I mean? Virtually all sensible discussion is held back by Party-ism. One does not want to be called a traitor, or even to get a dirty look from colleagues. Such is human nature. We should get rid of this whole set-up, considering how inevitable this club-like behavior is.)
- If there is an accusation of a stolen election, the nation goes into complete Red/Blue mode. I certainly think the 2020 presidential election was stolen — by globalists of course — and that no Dem would say HOLD IT EVERYBODY, WE CAN’T ALLOW STOLEN ELECTIONS! Rather, they say that any Repub who complains about it is a jerk, a liar, a hater, etc. Thus, the 2020 election did not get sorted, paving the way for all citizens to give up on their political power. Incidentally, I think the 2004 loser, John Kerry, went along with the gag.
(Note the 2004 election was clearly stolen by Bush. Drop by my house, 175 Loudon Rd, Apt 6, I’ll show you the paperwork. The reputation of our Party went down the drain as Dems stood in the rain and were shut out of voting in Ohio. I brought this up at a meeting of NH Republican Women at the time and got no quarter. Nobody said “Hold it Everybody, we can’t allow stolen elections!” But if we had done that, subsequent elections would not have been so stealable — oops but SCOTUS might pull a surprise this Friday January 6 in the Brunson case. Yay!)
- An incumbent Republican can get big money while a challenger cannot. If there were no Party treasure chest for state offices, this problem would not arise. In the 2022 gubernatorial campaign in NH, many Repubs did not want the Sun King to be the nominee. Yet they chose him as against other primary runners such as Karen Testerman, if they calculated that Sununu was the only Repub who could win over the Sem nominee. Is that stupid or what?
(Sununu’s father and brother are WEF aficionados. Does that affect the chances for republican principles to be protected by Gov Sununu? Logic says Yes. Think about it.)
- The FBI is a force for evil. Sure, it may also carry out some good tasks (I don’t know of any, but, hey that just shows my ignorance.) The FBI was invented (within Treasury) to investigate. It has no constitutional warrant for acting as police. If Article I, sec 8, doesn’t list a Congress grant of power for it, the states have it. Hence, policing is a state power. Unless an FBI man has been deputized by a local police force, he can make arrests only under the rubric of Citizen’s Arrest. In fact that is how they do it. Does a Republican Congress have the guts to advertise this fact? Can the Repubs fight to decertify a DoJ that permitted a late-night raid on Mar-a-lago? I bet repubs don’tt know that they can do so on principle rather than on bluey- reddy politics.
(Note: In bygone days, repubs were constitutionalists, but not now. So what’s the value of Party principles? A Republican, in any of the 50 states, who runs for office as a constitutionalist will of course be prevented from winning. “We can’t have that!” says the globalist.)
Can We Please De-Westminsterize Congress?
On November 17, 2022, GranteGrok.com published my article about our sadly westministerized Congress. I wrote:
Part of the way in which the globalists have taken over America is by maneuvering the members of Congress into a fixed Party system, and maneuvering the pubic into thinking this is normal. It is not normal. John C Coleman reported, in his 1992 book, “The Conspirators’ Hierarchy,” that Lloyd Cutler was tasked (by the globalists) with westminsterizing Congress.
This really ruins the concept of your local member of Congress representing you. How can he take orders from the field if he has already been given his orders from the globalists, as passed down through Party leaders? As I said recently about New Hampshire’s two reps, Anne Kuster and Chris Pappas, they always vote with Nancy Pelosi and therefore don’t deserve to be paid $176,000 per annum. We could pay them an honorarium of $5,000 and all they would have to do is press the button to vote as instructed.
My life in Australia (I am US-born) taught me a thing or two about the Westminster system. It is not provided for in the US Constitution, and we should demolish it quick smart. All proud Americans should work now to get this stupid system kicked out of the ballpark.
On this very day, all members of the US House and Senate — particularly freshmen — should be ruthless about voting for new rules. For example, they could appoint committee members by lot — as in, you know, drawing a name out of a hat. They could vote for a rotating Speaker of the House, say one every 6 months. They could and should, and must vote a Committee of Ten to deal with Article I, sec 8, Clause 11 before we get into nuclear Armageddon with Russia (which is probably what the globalists want).
They could vote a Rule of giving top priority to any matters of rigged elections. Or dealing with America’s young people having heart attacks after vaccinations. Whatever. They could actually rub a few neurons together. Wouldn’t that be nice?
Conclusion: Point One: the role of the NH state chairman is unfathomable. Point Two: There are some harms “that could not have occurred if it weren’t for folk’s sense that loyalty to Party demands a shutting down of other moral or practical evaluations.”
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