It began with Richard Nixon. He showed Republicans how to win elections
and lose their soul, how to capitulate to statism and call it a “new kind of
freedom.” Consequently the GOP is now a carbon copy of the Democrat Party.
Throughout the seventies and eighties, neoconservative intellectuals
eagerly fostered this “new kind of freedom” which gave Republicans an excuse
to blank out on the reality of what they were doing. Led by the late Irving
Kristol and big government luminaries like Harvard sociologist Patrick
Moynihan and Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz, these influential
former socialists infiltrated the Republican Party like termites invading the
support beams of one’s home. Their adoption of the name “neoconservatives”
was merely a cover for wider acceptance. By the early 1990s they had eroded
the sacred canons of conservatism with an amoral pragmatism devoid of respect
for individual rights and freedom domestically, while fomenting a ruinous
global hegemony internationally.
In the November 1977 issue of The American Spectator, Irving
Kristol told us that the laissez-faire vision of the Founders was a
“doctrinaire fantasy.” Its ideals “make it inadequate…for a political
community.” To adhere today to what Jefferson and Madison advocated is
anachronistic foolishness, he felt. It must be phased out of our collective
conscience. Capitalism and individual rights are dangerous institutions and
must be constantly modified by a powerful state that redistributes wealth
whenever necessary. In the eyes of Kristol and his followers, freedom, while
desirable, is not a primary political value. Machiavelli had the better idea;
expediency is the best way to rule. These intellectuals now lead the GOP.
Despicable that the party of Taft and Goldwater would tolerate such open
collectivism, but by the advent of the senior Bush regime in 1989, most
Republicans were willing to look the other way. They had convinced themselves
that freedom and the mega-state are somehow compatible if we wish them to be
so. Kristol’s Machiavellians were established in high places and offered the
GOP keys to entrenched power in Washington with their support. This,
Republicans wanted badly – enough so that they were willing to ignore the
founding principles of the nation and tolerate government usurpations that
have enslaved millions throughout history. Consequently the GOP now promotes
statism, inflation, wealth redistribution, open borders, and a police-the-world
foreign policy.
Can Freedom Be Saved?
Can the conservative “freedom movement” be rescued from this tragedy of
default? Can neoconservatives be exposed for their stealth and ideological
treason to the American vision? Can the true freedom movement eventually
restore the Republic? Yes, but it cannot be done with the Republican Party.
The GOP is too tightly controled by the neoconservative elites. What this
means is that runaway government cannot be stopped by
voting conservatives into Congress and “taking over the GOP” because
those that we manage to elect ultimately cave in to the party’s neocon
ideology. They may start out as Jimmy Stewart characters in Mr. Smith Goes
to Washington, full of idealism and fervor to reform, but they don’t stay
that way.
Here’s why. Newly elected Republicans to Congress soon see who has the
power in the party and realize that going against the neoconservative elites
would jeopardize their path to re-election. To run on substantive reforms
designed to restore the Founders’ vision would ostracize them from the major
donors of the Republican welfare-state establishment and bring criticism
instead of praise from the neocon intellectuals. So they choose to appease
the corporate donors, to support amnesty for illegals, to play ball with
hegemonic foreign policy mavens, and to join with government expansionists.This
is how they assure their re-election.
Ideology and money control politics, and the neocons control both in the
Republican Party via organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations,
the Hudson Institute, the Foreign Policy Initiative, and other highly
influential institutions that have been built to dominance in Washington and
New York over many decades.
Thus ninety percent of incoming conservative congressmen eventually
capitulate to the neocon agenda in order to attract the ideological and
funding support that come from its promotional network of scholars, institute
heads, and corporate/banking moguls. If not, such newcomers to Congress are
abandoned by the party elites.
Republican Rank and File Misguided
So it is very naïve to think the Republican Party can be taken over merely
by voting to send conservative candidates to Washington. To get control of
the GOP, we will have to root out the powerful neocon intellectuals who
promote the party’s vision. We will have to create a whole new array of
banking moguls on Wall Street who respect Jefferson and Smith instead of Marx
and Keynes. In short, we will have to create a whole new array of intellectual
elites to lead the GOP. Such a scholarly take-over will require 40-50
years to accomplish. America doesn’t have this kind of time. We need to
challenge the tyrannical control that liberals and neocons have over America
now!
In other words it is impossible to change the structure of an institution
without changing the source of its power – i.e., its intellectuals. Neocon
intellectuals control the GOP by controlling Washington’s think tanks and
Wall Street’s banks ideologically. Expecting incoming conservative legislators
to seriously challenge these scholars is like expecting school girls to go up
against Mafia lords. This is the major flaw of the Tea Party groups that wish
to work “within the GOP.”
Thus trying to take over the Republican Party by voting in more “conservative
legislators” is a tragic waste of time. It will never stop America’s
dictatorial drift. We have been attempting to do this for over four decades,
and the freedom advocates we send to Washington continue to be bought off by
the GOP’s neoconservative corruption as fast as we send them.
Divorce from the Republicans Needed
How then do we defeat this neocon corruption? Only by leaving the GOP and
forming an alternative independent party with an independent candidate
(as Ross Perot did in 1992). When a marriage becomes unworkable, wise spouses
seek divorce. We in the political arena must do likewise. Our strength lies
in the fact that our independent candidate will not be beholden to neocon
intellectual and financial power. He will be beholden to the American people.
Thus he can run on a campaign of substantive reform. He can tell the truth to
the voters. America is now ready for the truth; it will find millions of
takers.
Americans for a Free Republic in Dallas, Texas www.afr.org has designed a
strategy to bring about such a National Independent Party movement for 2016.
It’s platform is comprised of Four Pillars of Reform for our tax, monetary,
immigration, and foreign policy systems. These are crucial, substantive
changes that must be implemented if the country is to survive and return to
freedom. The leaders of both the Democrats and Republicans will oppose these
reforms, but 50 percent of the American people will embrace them. That leaves
50 percent of American voters for the Democrats and Republicans to split
between them, which spells victory for our National Independent Party.
AFR has published a special “National Independent Report”
that explains the reforms in detail. It is a blueprint for the salvation of America
and the permanent establishment of a free-market, conservative, patriot
political party, which will replace the Republican Party by drawing four
major voting blocks together – the true conservatives of the GOP, the vast
body of patriotic independents, the libertarians, and the blue-collar
Democrats. Our Special Report can be viewed here:
http://afr.org/wp-content/uploads/reports/NI-Report.pdf
