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The GOP, a Revolutionary Party Once Again

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 06:27 PM PST

Heading
into the 2010 elections, the Republican party is best characterized by its
schizophrenic structure with a complacent political leadership and a
radicalized populist grass roots movement. If the Democracy party acts
like it's out of power even when it's in power, the Republican party acts
like it's in power, even when it's out of power. And that is unfortunately
rooted in the character of the Republican party as a conservative party, a
party of the status quo, even when it can't figure out what that status
quo actually is.

In the wake of FDR's radical and
extended administration, the GOP embraced the three piece suit moderate
conservatism of Eisenhower, fusing conservative national defense policies
with a fairly liberal domestic agenda. As a result the things that
conservatives complain about, are just as likely to have been the work of
a Republican President as a Democratic one. That is why despite the fact
that since then America has been governed more by Republican Presidents
than Democratic ones, the second half of the 20th century has been one
long string of cultural and legal victories for liberalism... with
setbacks happening only when those policies led to complete and
unacceptable social disasters, notably excessive softness on crime and the
welfare state.

As the party of the status quo, the Republican party
has not failed to roll back liberal cultural and political victories, but
has repeatedly been complicit in legalizing them and perpetuating them.
Which means that if history is any predictor of the future, even if Obama
is forced out of office in 2012, his Republican successor will accept his
policies and incorporate them into a bipartisan consensus, as has happened
so many times. And that complacency is the secret behind the liberal
takeover of America, it could not have taken place and cannot continue
taking place without Republican collaboration.

But the problem is
not RINO's or Liberal Republicans-- rather it is the conservative
worldview of the Republican party itself. Conservatism is naturally
focused on conserving and preserving, it fights in defense of tradition
and the way things are. The problem is that the situation in America has
degraded too far and too quickly for the status quo to be worth defending.
Instead the status quo being conserved is one that has already been
crafted by generations of a liberal culture war against America. To
actually make a difference, the Republican party needs to leave behind the
armchairs of the status quo and become a revolutionary party once
again.

The birth of the Republican party took place against the
background of a corrupt Democratic party that bound together international
businessmen, immigrants and plantation owners into an oligarchy meant to
crush individual freedom. In contrast to the urban sweatshops and rural
plantations, the corrupt political machines and their gangs of thugs, and
the whole Democratic ideology of Divide and Conquer by race and class so
that the oligarchy and the political machines could profit-- the
Republican party embraced an ideology that was both conservative, in that
led back to the roots of the American revolution, and was at the same time
revolutionary... Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men.

The Party of Lincoln did not only oppose slavery
because slavery was wrong... it opposed slavery because only a nation of
free people could rule a Republic, not slaves, serfs or servants. When
Lincoln stated that the United States could not endure as a government
half-slave and half-free, it was not simply a denunciation of the current
state of affairs, but a statement that America could not survive if it
becomes a nation of slaves, and thus a nation ruled over by despots. And
yet that is the nation we are living in today.

A slave does not
have be property of a plantation owner toiling away in the cotton fields.
He can just as easily be a college educated professional who nevertheless
has as little practical freedom and property as the slave. There are many
different kinds of cages and many different kinds of slavery, but they all
have one thing in common, they are not free. Their labor, their rights and
their land has been taken away from them. They are ruled over by masters
and tyrants, supposedly for their own good, in reality to harvest the
fruits of their labor for themselves.

That was the political
situation in the United States that the Republican party rose to confront,
fighting a Democratic party rooted in slavery, whether on the plantation
or the factory floor. And when the fighting was done and Lincoln was dead,
his successors cut their cynical deals, and the United States continued
drifting closer and closer toward slavery. The Republican party ceased to
be a revolutionary party, instead in the 20th century it became a foil for
the race and class warfare agitation of a reborn Democratic party that
embraced socialism and turned its back on its own Jeffersonian
traditions.

Obama is not the first warning sign that the end is
near, but he may be one of the last. There is still a window of
opportunity for the Republican party to be reborn as a revolutionary party
again, challenging the despotic status quo, the oligarchy of power and
politics that the Democratic party has imposed on America.

The Tea Parties and the Town Hall
protests both signal that it is not the politics of the status quo that
the people want, but a party that will stand up and fight for a free
America. It is not enough to try and hang on to the legacy of FDR, LBJ,
Carter and Clinton... against Obama. The idea of that is patently
ridiculous and hypocritical, as if we are not for freedom, but only
against change, and when enough time has gone by, then we grunt and accept
the extra load. But that is exactly what the Republican party has been
doing for some time now, bucking and kicking against every new piece of
the socialist puzzle, while earnestly protecting and defending the pieces
that have already been put into place.

We have had enough of
responsible Republican leaders carefully maintaining the prison walls that
the Democrats have erected and continue to erect around us. What we need
are leaders who will tear them down. We do not need new curators of every
piece of legislative bric a brac, every byzantine construction of
bureaucracy and every watchtower agency that the Democrats and their
Republican collaborators have filled the country with. We need men and
women willing to clean them away, to give away the power that they can
wield through them over the American people in the name of American
freedom, so that a nation with a government of the people, by the people
and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.