25th May 2009, 04:21 pm
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- Keeps the government out of people’s way.
- Keeps the government out of people’s hearts. If two men or two women want to marry and there’s a church or temple that will marry them, then the government should not stand in their way.
- Recognizes that environmental conservation is a conservative virtue. I dream of a a political party whose environmental plank doesn’t sound like it’s been written by real estate developers and oil company lobbyists.
- Supports the second clause of the 2nd Amendment without reservation or hesitation.
- Supports religious freedom but doesn’t dictate morality. Dictating morality is the role for religion – not the government.
- Seeks to end the creeping legalism of American society. I dream of a party that malpractice and personal injury attorneys fear to the point that they donate money to it in the hopes of watering down its legislation.
- Appreciates America’s innate isolationism yet is willing to extend the fight to America’s enemies wherever they may be. Americans should not be asked to sacrifice their sons and daughters for nothing less than a direct threat to the United States. This means abdicating our role as the World’s Policeman and pursuing only our own objectives – not anyone else’s.
- Recognizes “special relationships” with the following countries: Canada, a nation that has “had our back” for over a century. Australia, America’s most reliable and fiercest ally. Great Britain, our best and pretty much only true European friend. Israel, a special relationship unlike any other. Japan, our quiet yet dependable ally in East Asia.
- Sees the War on Drugs as nonsensical at the least, inhumane at most. People should have the ability to harm themselves if they so choose, for what is freedom truly mean if they cannot? I dream of a party that adds to planks to its party platform: an official end to the war on drugs and the decriminalization of all drugs as well as the legalization of marijuana.
- Advocates responsibility as well as freedom. Freedom without responsibility is fine for children, not adult human beings. I want a party that challenges citizens to succeed and fail on their own without prospect of a government bailout. Likewise when they do succeed, I expect a party that will not sanction them with punitive taxes.
- Does not exist and probably will not during my lifetime. But I will dream about it anyway.
Thomas Jackson:
I can understand your wish to lealize drugs. Why shouldn’t the USA be turned into a nation of addicts. It is all ready almost there with mind numbed idiots. Why criminalize people for wanting to indulge themselves and fuck up their lifes?
Responsibilit and discipline are so 20th century.
5 June 2009, 12:25 amScott Kirwin:
Thomas
If you can’t fuck up your own life, then how can you be free?
I didn’t say that the government had to play the role of codependent and bail you out each time you screwed up – yet that’s seems to be the role it is playing today with GM, Chrysler and the banks. As I wrote above “Freedom without responsibility is fine for children, not adult human beings.”
5 June 2009, 7:41 amKroupa:
I want this party too. Can it be done? Wouldn’t it be worthwhile to try to create it or is it an impossible task?
2 April 2010, 2:43 pm