I hereby declare myself a member of the Radical Republican Party, whose intent it is to displace the Republican Party as it stands in the two-party system of the Union.
The Republican Party as it stands has demonstrated itself to be utterly compromised. It is rotten to the core. Hence two of the Radical Republican Party's founding principles must be:
1) The impeachment and removal from office of Donald Trump.
2) The dissolution of the existing Republican party and defeat at the polls of all Republicans in the U.S. Congress and the state houses of all American states or territories.
Additionally, the Radical Republican Party chooses this moment to re-found on the principles of the Republican Party at the end of the War of Secession:
1) First and foremost, the process of making redress and reparation to the descendents of America's slave population must be picked up at the point of its abandonment, at the end of Reconstruction in 1877. The entailments of redress and reparation are not for any individual to decide, but must be such as definitively end the treatment of the African-American population of the Union as slaves, and so would be expected to include definitive financial payments (possibly extending indefinitely) and definitive actions to redress the century and a half of deliberate U.S. government racial discrimination following the end of Reconstruction. (See The Color of Law for one among many clear delineations of how such deliberate discrimination has been implemented.)
2) Second, the Radical Republican Party continues to embrace the long-standing principle of the Republican Party that taxation on economic enterprises should be minimized, without however supposing any artificial limits to taxation on the income of individuals. In the latter it stands in the tradition of the Progressive Republicans, without supporting the racist beliefs and traditions of the Progressive Democrats, of the first decades of the twentieth century. An activist government is required not as a nanny to the people, but to redress long-standing injustices which manifest now as economic inequality, and in doing so there should be no artificial limitations on taxes imposed, especially on the rich, as individuals.
2a) A qualifier or codicil to the belief in no undue restrictions on economic enterprises is that such economic enterprises must see the true environmental costs of their actions, whether through outright restrictions, strong regulation, or taxes representing externalities. Climate change is real and must be addressed urgently.
3) Third, the Radical Republican Party continues to embrace the Republican Party's outright opposition to socialism and communism, with the proviso that this opposition extends to those who explictly claim the mantle of socialism or communism (such as Bernie Sanders), and not to labelling as such those who disagree with the Party on taxation or spending or the specific actions to be taken by government (such as Hillary Clinton).
The Party welcomes your comments.
The Republican Party as it stands has demonstrated itself to be utterly compromised. It is rotten to the core. Hence two of the Radical Republican Party's founding principles must be:
1) The impeachment and removal from office of Donald Trump.
2) The dissolution of the existing Republican party and defeat at the polls of all Republicans in the U.S. Congress and the state houses of all American states or territories.
Additionally, the Radical Republican Party chooses this moment to re-found on the principles of the Republican Party at the end of the War of Secession:
1) First and foremost, the process of making redress and reparation to the descendents of America's slave population must be picked up at the point of its abandonment, at the end of Reconstruction in 1877. The entailments of redress and reparation are not for any individual to decide, but must be such as definitively end the treatment of the African-American population of the Union as slaves, and so would be expected to include definitive financial payments (possibly extending indefinitely) and definitive actions to redress the century and a half of deliberate U.S. government racial discrimination following the end of Reconstruction. (See The Color of Law for one among many clear delineations of how such deliberate discrimination has been implemented.)
2) Second, the Radical Republican Party continues to embrace the long-standing principle of the Republican Party that taxation on economic enterprises should be minimized, without however supposing any artificial limits to taxation on the income of individuals. In the latter it stands in the tradition of the Progressive Republicans, without supporting the racist beliefs and traditions of the Progressive Democrats, of the first decades of the twentieth century. An activist government is required not as a nanny to the people, but to redress long-standing injustices which manifest now as economic inequality, and in doing so there should be no artificial limitations on taxes imposed, especially on the rich, as individuals.
2a) A qualifier or codicil to the belief in no undue restrictions on economic enterprises is that such economic enterprises must see the true environmental costs of their actions, whether through outright restrictions, strong regulation, or taxes representing externalities. Climate change is real and must be addressed urgently.
3) Third, the Radical Republican Party continues to embrace the Republican Party's outright opposition to socialism and communism, with the proviso that this opposition extends to those who explictly claim the mantle of socialism or communism (such as Bernie Sanders), and not to labelling as such those who disagree with the Party on taxation or spending or the specific actions to be taken by government (such as Hillary Clinton).
The Party welcomes your comments.
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