Mission: The Republican Party will promote and defend economic, social, and personal Freedom. The Republican Party believes that individuals and social groups will make better decisions for themselves and we will foster an environment where citizens can make decisions that affect their lives and their families and their communities for themselves.
The Republican Party right now is lost. It has failed it's voters for decades and a political class that is detached from the voters had taken over. They have backed their way into power at every level in DC and they still cannot unite behind anyone or do anything the voters who put them there want. Nobody can name a single policy or guiding principal the republican party stands for. Over the last 6 years you would have thought it was repeal of Obamacare. Welp! That betrayal is the catalyst.
The Republican Party needs a purpose and a principle going forth. Freedom and Liberty are what this country was founded on. The Republican Party needs to be more forward facing. Conservatives always look to the past for answers. The technologies and disruptions that are coming are going to be deep and they are going to come fast and a party looking to the past will not be able to keep up. We need to be creative and innovative in defending Freedom and promoting Liberty.
Donald Trump won the nomination running against the deepest field of republican candidates ever. He didn't just get lucky. Every faction had their shot. He started out the front runner and as the field narrowed he gained more votes from departing candidates than the other remaining candidates. He received a record number of votes in the republican primary. He did this despite an almost complete lack of any detectable ideology. Make America Great Again is an inspired and brilliant campaign slogan. It is also empty which is a part of why it worked. Trump's victory should be used and analysed to understand the voting base and what the voters really want.
What do citizens want? In general the normal people: Want to go to work, make enough money to support their family, go home and watch a _____, and go out on the weekends with social groups. They want to be able to make these decisions feeling morally sufficient and reasonably secure and free to do what they want to do without having someone or some government steal their stuff. If they feel like someone will go to DC to protect their interests and fight for them so they don't have to deal with that they will support them. There are no complicated ideologies here. These people really just want to be left alone whether they go to church on the weekends or go to the BBQ at the park.
Those citizens described above are under assault and they know it. The problem for them is they see decisions made in DC about their lives and they feel no connection or input. They vote for politicians who almost immediately go to DC, get a bunch of money for their re-election campaign from donors, and promptly forget about them. Obamacare has kicked these people in the nuts. But we elected Republicans to fix this right? RIGHT?!
We need to be able to tell them what we are doing for them in clear statements. Our words and our actions must match. A big part of this is having a simple and clear message and purpose. Just like government growing less responsive and effective as it gets larger so does a party need to focus on a narrow set of principles or it loses clarity. These must be broken down into goals. We must develop strategies that support these go and use tactics that match our strategies.
Goal: Promote and protect Freedom and Liberty.
Strategy: Understand current and imminent technological advances and disruptions to society and proactively place policies that promote and protect Freedom and Liberty.
This strategy will foster numerous tactics. For example:
Tactic: As robotics and AI displace human labor shift the tax burden from labor and income to capital and consumption.
There will be a post where strategies will be brainstormed, vetted, edited and weeded out. Each strategy will have it's own set of tactics.
Our principles need to be Freedom and Liberty and moving forward we need to understand where society is going and find new and innovative ways to promote and protect freedom. The rest of these posts are taking individual policy areas and discussing what they will look like and what our tactics need to be. The messaging needs to be simple and our actions must match our words: We support Freedom.
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