Given the failure of the two party system, a number of Jacksonian conservatives are anticipating a split in the Republican Party. In an e-mail sent (courtesy of Larwyn) AJAcksonian argues that:
"two parties will not exist as they are within 4-6 years.
"The divisions in the D party and R party are present and clearly seen, and a maximum of four parties, but most likely three will be a result.
"I have my old Jacksonian Party concepts that I posted awhile ago, which are dry... outlines of a party, not a party. That starts with the fundamental understanding that Jacksonians are what they do following what they say so as to prove they mean it. That requires an Ethics Platform for candidates and those seeking office... not a Party Platform, but a clear and distinct way to demonstrate that running for office is not a sinecure and that each race is a whole, new race. Any new party *must* address the concentration of power in the US and its movement to Incumbistan. Those moves come from parties with 'plans' not 'policy' and as Jackson demonstrated, it is policy that matters and plans must be forthrightly derived from good policy, thus a new party must have people who clearly establish policy and will work out good plans to carry them forth and WORK (that dirty word in DC) to get them done.
"That is a reformulation of politics top to bottom, not a reform of it: those who do it that way will create something new under the sun and yet as old as the Republic.
"My ideas are highly idealistic, and truly I don't expect them to work on a reasonable basis - they serve as the basis to stir thinking to GET an idea of what a new party Should Do. It must cut off the basis for Party power and for individual power accumulation. It must be a structure that is defined by its members in common, yet with simple and easy to define ways to disagree and not turn into 'factions'...
"For all of that a new party must be simple, uncomplicated, basic in outlook and look to keep the simple means of accountable government as its touchstone. If it is not in the Constitution, government doesn't get it. No Teddy Roosevelt 'expansionist views' towards power are part of that...
"Thus, any new party must address the plurality of thoughts that coalesce upon the common understanding that more government is not 'good' government. That 'regulation' is not control. That 'governing' is not ruling.
"Today we adhere to the former and yet the latter is our foundation and salvation as a people.
"If we dare to believe in ourselves first... and keep government always accountable to us."
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Jesse Jackson Says That Under Obama, American Support For Israel Will Be Reduced
Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs (h/t Larwyn) reports that Jesse Jackson has publicly stated that:
"Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades", they'll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House. "decades of putting Israel's interests first" would end...Jackson warns that he isn't an Obama confidant or adviser, 'just a supporter.' But he adds that Obama has been 'a neighbor or, better still, a member of the family.' Jackson's son has been a close friend of Obama for years, and Jackson's daughter went to school with Obama's wife Michelle.
Read the whole thing here.
"Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades", they'll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House. "decades of putting Israel's interests first" would end...Jackson warns that he isn't an Obama confidant or adviser, 'just a supporter.' But he adds that Obama has been 'a neighbor or, better still, a member of the family.' Jackson's son has been a close friend of Obama for years, and Jackson's daughter went to school with Obama's wife Michelle.
Read the whole thing here.
Larwyn On the Failure of the Two-Party System
Larwyn is known to all conservative bloggers. She compiles and then coordinates dozens of blogs, and sends the results in a compendium to all on her mailing list. Rarely, however, do we get the chance to learn of her own ideas. Recently, I was fortunate to receive her views on the failure of the two party system.
>"I'm praying, but not really certain what I am praying for as I do not trust McCain. I know that, in many ways, he can do much if not more harm than O!
"A third party is a long haul. I actually canvassed to collect signatures to get Perot on the ballot in PA, so I've dreamed of a third party for a long time.
"I think the FIRST BATTLE should be, as I wrote today...
"WE DON'T WANT NO INDEPENDENTS and /or DEMS VOTING IN OUR PRIMARIES!!!
"Before we take the long slough establishing a third party, let's demand the above to allow the registered REPUBS to battle it out. If the LIBERAL WING WINS, we would then have a polarized party a la the current PUMAS in the DEMS.
"Due to Indies and DEMS being permitted to vote in primaries in many states, we don't have that this time. We must get after the RNC to demand that states only allow registered REPUBS to vote in primaries. We can proceed from there. If they refuse to even address this, we've already lost and can then proceed with clear conscience. (Emphasis added).
"There is no doubt, in my mind, that we must make a stand. There is no other country in this world to run to or to send our grandchildren to, is there?
"Hope you saw the Treacher post in collection sent early this AM, so I'm not alone. And I don't have a day job, been reading blogs & following news ~16 hours a day for years now...sigh.
"Also in that one, Gateway on the NEW GRADE SCHOOL TEXTBOOK with 15 pages devoted to O! is terrifying. I am hoping that ANGRY PARENTS will be outside that school this morning. Just another reason why AYERS and the Annenberg Challenge/Hugo Chavez links are so important. Of course the truth here is that the LIBS aren't having children so they must indoctrinate ours while opening our borders to those with a natural SOCIALISTIC/CLASS WARFARE BENT.
"That is why I don't think taking back America will be bloodless, glad we are the side who celebrates manly men and manly virtues and the side that believes in the 2nd Amendment,when push comes to more than shoving.
God bless
Larwyn
>"I'm praying, but not really certain what I am praying for as I do not trust McCain. I know that, in many ways, he can do much if not more harm than O!
"A third party is a long haul. I actually canvassed to collect signatures to get Perot on the ballot in PA, so I've dreamed of a third party for a long time.
"I think the FIRST BATTLE should be, as I wrote today...
"WE DON'T WANT NO INDEPENDENTS and /or DEMS VOTING IN OUR PRIMARIES!!!
"Before we take the long slough establishing a third party, let's demand the above to allow the registered REPUBS to battle it out. If the LIBERAL WING WINS, we would then have a polarized party a la the current PUMAS in the DEMS.
"Due to Indies and DEMS being permitted to vote in primaries in many states, we don't have that this time. We must get after the RNC to demand that states only allow registered REPUBS to vote in primaries. We can proceed from there. If they refuse to even address this, we've already lost and can then proceed with clear conscience. (Emphasis added).
"There is no doubt, in my mind, that we must make a stand. There is no other country in this world to run to or to send our grandchildren to, is there?
"Hope you saw the Treacher post in collection sent early this AM, so I'm not alone. And I don't have a day job, been reading blogs & following news ~16 hours a day for years now...sigh.
"Also in that one, Gateway on the NEW GRADE SCHOOL TEXTBOOK with 15 pages devoted to O! is terrifying. I am hoping that ANGRY PARENTS will be outside that school this morning. Just another reason why AYERS and the Annenberg Challenge/Hugo Chavez links are so important. Of course the truth here is that the LIBS aren't having children so they must indoctrinate ours while opening our borders to those with a natural SOCIALISTIC/CLASS WARFARE BENT.
"That is why I don't think taking back America will be bloodless, glad we are the side who celebrates manly men and manly virtues and the side that believes in the 2nd Amendment,when push comes to more than shoving.
God bless
Larwyn
Dollar Liberation
Llewellyn Rockwell of the Ludwig von Mises Institute has written an excellent blog on monetary reform and the gold standard.
Rockwell notes:
"It is the perfect storm: the big banks loot us through government, while the academic economists approve it as applied science.
"Moreover, there seems to be no test of whether or not what they are doing is a good thing. When the market responds negatively to a new infusion of cash, they say that it isn't enough. When the market responds positively, they take credit for fixing the problem. The state maintains the charade that it is the one infallible institution."
Llewellyn argues that the problem with a gold standard is that:
"the people charged with implementing it will invariably be the very people, advancement of whose interests has caused the current problem and have the least incentive to change the system. We've seen in the last several weeks how these people are willing to blow up the world rather than face liquidation. So the question becomes, how can we take steps toward sound money and banking without depending on the good will of the officials in charge?"
Rockwell recommends several books:
-Hans Sennholz's Money and Freedom
-George Selgin's Good Money
and the writings of Jörg Guido Hülsmann. FA von Hayek also advocated competitive currencies. Under the free market view of money:
"People should be free to use any money they can get each other to accept. More than that, people should be free to introduce new moneys based on gold or silver or any other commodity, and develop payment systems based on this, whether that means paper signifiers or digital goods. The market is capable of policing this system the same way it does retail trade."
View the whole thing here.
Rockwell notes:
"It is the perfect storm: the big banks loot us through government, while the academic economists approve it as applied science.
"Moreover, there seems to be no test of whether or not what they are doing is a good thing. When the market responds negatively to a new infusion of cash, they say that it isn't enough. When the market responds positively, they take credit for fixing the problem. The state maintains the charade that it is the one infallible institution."
Llewellyn argues that the problem with a gold standard is that:
"the people charged with implementing it will invariably be the very people, advancement of whose interests has caused the current problem and have the least incentive to change the system. We've seen in the last several weeks how these people are willing to blow up the world rather than face liquidation. So the question becomes, how can we take steps toward sound money and banking without depending on the good will of the officials in charge?"
Rockwell recommends several books:
-Hans Sennholz's Money and Freedom
-George Selgin's Good Money
and the writings of Jörg Guido Hülsmann. FA von Hayek also advocated competitive currencies. Under the free market view of money:
"People should be free to use any money they can get each other to accept. More than that, people should be free to introduce new moneys based on gold or silver or any other commodity, and develop payment systems based on this, whether that means paper signifiers or digital goods. The market is capable of policing this system the same way it does retail trade."
View the whole thing here.
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