A Platform, A Strategy
Submitted by a politically active anon
Looking at the political landscape, it is difficult for right wingers to find green shoots. Some of the populist energy has channeled into odd pursuits. All bureaucracies are controlled by the left and idea generating entities are left wing aligned. Seek patrons! That is not for everyone. A positive is that the ideas that formerly were called fringe or niche have grown in popularity with the base. This essay aims to suggest a tighter platform and provide a method for pushing it within your state.
A positive step is to focus on the hot topics that can help firm up control within your state. These can apply to the federal level even if the White House is potentially shut out from here to the end of the American experiment.
1. Immigration- At the federal level, a moratorium and deportation program combined with implementing an Israeli style wall. At the state level, simple e-verify and picking parts of the Arizona and Alabama laws that made it through the courts.
2. Defenestration of the state university system. All out audits and budget warfare as well as curriculum control.
3. K-12 student funding changes a la Arizona. Starve public schools. Pay homeschoolers. The boiling off of homeschool families from the indoctrination system should be encouraged. Even if homeschooling tops out at 20%, what the 20% is matters more.
4. Reform tax code in neutral manner to move from income tax base to consumption taxes. Applies to federal as well. A VAT for reduced income taxes means we skim from the class that never pays anything.
5. State governments remove, sanction, etc. DAs not enforcing the law.
6. Restore order with re-using 3 strikes laws, anti-rioting laws, mass shooter laws. Long minimum sentences.
7. Crackdown on homeless. Any means necessary.
8. Raise sentencing guidelines for heroin/fentanyl dealers.
9. Government funding for NGOs/media ends.
10. If your elected official does not enact these, they are voted out.
The last part is tougher but even in a deep red state, you can. The key is being open about desired policies and organizing a like-minded interest group. Such an organization has to call state legislators. Such an organization has to look up donors. This is not just to voice concerns on these issues but to discover who is excluded from in-state largesse and who is at the end of the list. If one looks at primary election results for state wide races in newly open seats, one can see the relative strengths of factions. There are disgruntled back-benchers and those not preeminent.
Can you staff for candidates? Can you fundraise? Many state legislature races cost what a new sedan costs? Bring the money or the ideas, and you can provide legislative aides and staffers. That’s how you place your needs at the top of the priority ladder. You cannot do it alone so build a network. There is no interest group for your interests, so you must build it and credibly sell it as a group that will walk away if promises are not kept.
If the race is a gubernatorial election, your state likely has a stranglehold on anything he or she can do with veto overrides. Gov. Asa Hutchinson was embarrassed by how fast his veto was brushed off, and easy veto overrides forced Gov. Holcomb to sign legislation he signaled against. Punish a squish and a liar. That is the only way they will change.
If one does review primary vote results and sees the general election margins, the swing that one might coordinate can win or lose elections. Throw an election to a Democrat, never! That is a fair sentiment, but look around you and check to see if your state GOP is actually to the right of the average Democrat.