The Current Politics
The Democrats have been successful in throwing out the Republicans. Currently their is a scandal a brewing as to whether W obstructed justice in firing appointed District Attorneys. Speaker Pelosi has said impeachment is off the table, but maybe the latest news will put it on. If I had experienced more success in organizing this party and winning a few of those seats, the price of coalition would have been to put impeachment on the table.
The prospects for a Christian Libertarian polity emerging independent of a party are still weak. The abortion lobby still control the Democrats, so even our solution which condemns abortion without banning it will not go over there. Of course, the current front runners could at least be described as Christian leftists, although not necessarily libertarian. Hilary at least understands the need to fight abortion economically (we have discussed this and if she follows through I will likely abandon this effort and support her). Rudy is correctly pro-choice and in the lead, but his anti-tax bias is telling. If he can adopt our position on converting to an employer-based business income tax with sizable credits for dependents, a vote for him may be warranted. The Republican base may never support him, although current signs are encouraging.
So, we may have an embarrassment of riches or be out in the dog house again. Time will tell.
What is important is not the party but the issues. If a candidate comes along who will do the right thing on abortion/tax reform and on using Social Security reform/expanded savings to empower workers on the factory floor (rather than empowering financial managers), I will work with that candidate provided they let me work with them.
Time will tell. Certainly the hard core partisans have no interest in the positions advocated here. The GOP authoritarians will not give up on punishing women and doctors, although they do not admit to how they would do so, while none of them will give up on cutting taxes, even though the national debt is a scandal. The Democratic feminists will hardly hear a discouraging word about legalized abortion, especially in recognizing that Congress could change when citizenship begins from birth to an earlier time - even though by doing so it totally forecloses state action absent such a change. The Democratic organized labor wing (which has long ago given up being anything but an annex to the party) will not hear of any change to Social Security, even if such a change would empower not only workers, but the union movement itself. That being said, real leadership is necessary to change these positions, or political gridlock will continue and there may yet be an opening for this party.
The prospects for a Christian Libertarian polity emerging independent of a party are still weak. The abortion lobby still control the Democrats, so even our solution which condemns abortion without banning it will not go over there. Of course, the current front runners could at least be described as Christian leftists, although not necessarily libertarian. Hilary at least understands the need to fight abortion economically (we have discussed this and if she follows through I will likely abandon this effort and support her). Rudy is correctly pro-choice and in the lead, but his anti-tax bias is telling. If he can adopt our position on converting to an employer-based business income tax with sizable credits for dependents, a vote for him may be warranted. The Republican base may never support him, although current signs are encouraging.
So, we may have an embarrassment of riches or be out in the dog house again. Time will tell.
What is important is not the party but the issues. If a candidate comes along who will do the right thing on abortion/tax reform and on using Social Security reform/expanded savings to empower workers on the factory floor (rather than empowering financial managers), I will work with that candidate provided they let me work with them.
Time will tell. Certainly the hard core partisans have no interest in the positions advocated here. The GOP authoritarians will not give up on punishing women and doctors, although they do not admit to how they would do so, while none of them will give up on cutting taxes, even though the national debt is a scandal. The Democratic feminists will hardly hear a discouraging word about legalized abortion, especially in recognizing that Congress could change when citizenship begins from birth to an earlier time - even though by doing so it totally forecloses state action absent such a change. The Democratic organized labor wing (which has long ago given up being anything but an annex to the party) will not hear of any change to Social Security, even if such a change would empower not only workers, but the union movement itself. That being said, real leadership is necessary to change these positions, or political gridlock will continue and there may yet be an opening for this party.
posted by Michael Bindner at 12:22 PM
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