The Republican platform needs to change. From the founding of our contry we the people have had an understanding of who we want to be. We did not want to be under the rule of tyrants, we did not want to merely exist and live meager lives; we as a people understood an opportunity for global exceptionism was available and together formed the United States of America.
From the humble roots of our founding documents we added. We added laws, court rulings, and more, to try and create a more equal and perfect government. We have not succeeded. Instead we made a nation of poorly written laws that are poorly enforced, or worse, are enforced as a means of targeting individuals or groups. It does not matter these laws were created with the best of intention, for as with all things they have unintended consequences. Having recently entered the dawn of of a new millennium and nearing 250 years of our Democracy, it is time we take a step back. It is time we take a long hard look at what has been accomplished, and rather than continue to add — instead we start to shape, mold, and remove existing laws to create a better and smaller government.
The first step in this is with our own platform. Convention after convention we add; we change; and rarely, we remove. Over time we have evolved as Republicans and grown into what? We are a party of strong individuals but of weak factions. Together these factions pick single issues and make sweeping decisions on them. This doesn’t strengthen our candidates or our party, rather it weakens us as a party and allows the incremental and insidious insertion of egalitarianism in our everyday life via the Democratic party and their success in our absence.
It is time we tear up the planks of our platform and show the true foundation we stand on. The foundation of liberty, of justice, of freedom, of life liberty and happiness for all. Our platform should not be made from the ideas of various factions but of the fundamental ideas that makes our country great; the ideas written into our state and national constitutions.
The responsibility to defend the constitution lies most with Republicans. We are the defenders of freedom. We are the defenders of our rights, both god given and those in the constitution. We are the defenders of all the things that make America the best country on earth. For this to happen we need to leave behind the party of divided factions. Instead we must step forward as the party united under defending the constitution.
It is time for us to evolve back into the party of one nation, under God, with Liberty and Justice for all.