WAKE UP CALL

By Samuel Nicholas

If it hasn't already occurred to those of you in the 'silent majority,' the Republican Party has ceased representing the interests of Conservative Americans. 'Republican' and 'Conservative' are no longer synonymous.

Conservatives, you see, are ensnared in a psychological Versailles Treaty whereby they are made to feel guilty for attempting to live their lives in the manner which was intended by our Founding Fathers. They are unable to articulate themselves in support of traditional American principles effectively for fear of being labelled 'sexist,' 'racist,' 'homophobic,' and--the trump card--'anti-Semitic.' That is because Democrats (i.e., socialists) have succeeded in removing the very foundations of Americanism and substituting entirely alien, morally relativistic concepts. The phrase 'self-evident' has lost its meaning. The words 'consent of the governed' no longer have any objective value. Nearly every constitutional limitation of the federal government's power has been abrogated, undermined, or ignored; every enumerated right in The Bill of Rights has been usurped--all in the name of 'democracy,' 'tolerance,' 'multiculturalism,' and 'inclusiveness.'

America was not intended to be a democracy. The franchise was limited at America's founding because the Founding Fathers realised that an unlimited electorate would lead ultimately to a government of unlimited powers, beholden to whatever collective managed to form a majority at any given point in time. The Framers of the Constitution recognised, universally, that democracy is legally impossible in any country that possesses even a single, overriding legal document. Thus, the electorate was limited to armed, literate, propertied Men--in a manner similar to that of ancient Greece's mislabelled 'democracies' (women, children, and slaves could not vote in any of the Greek city-states.)

The key qualification was that of property ownership because the Framers also recognised that if the non-property-owning majority gained control of the government, the very concept of private property would soon hold no meaning. The race and sex of the electorate were not considered: they were assumed. The original, American political culture was the logical consequence of over 500 years of empirical experimentation by rational, European Christian men who used their minds to find the best balance between the necessary evil of government and individual Liberty. The Constitution, with the original Bill of Rights, was the legal manifestation of that balance. The Declaration of Independence--authoured by Thomas Jefferson, arguably one of the wisest men to have ever lived--established the moral context in which the Framers wrote the Constitution.

To be Conservative, in an American context, means to act in a manner which preserves American cultural and political institutions. The GOP no longer does this. It is easy to see why: when a Constitutional Republic of limited governmental power becomes a Democratic tyranny of the majority, it is wholly necessary to pander to the interests of as broad a constituency as possible for fear of alienating them on Election Day. In concrete terms, that means promising to loot the productive for the benefit of the non-productive. If the GOP were acting to preserve American culture, they would not do this. If a GOP candidate is serious about upholding the Constitution, he will not preach 'tolerance' for those who have no respect for Constitutional limitations on government power; he would support 'multiculturalism' to the detriment of his own culture; and he would not suggest 'inclusiveness' for people who would exclude himself, if the roles were reversed.

Americans can act peacefully to reclaim their lost political liberties, but they will have to do so without expecting support from the Republican Party.

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