{"id":29,"date":"2014-07-10T06:56:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T13:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coppercommando.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2014-07-10T06:56:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T13:56:55","slug":"forced-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Forced March"},"content":{"rendered":"

A prevailing thought [ed: not for long] in the #MTGOP exists where people believe that a loud group\u00a0of fringe politics can force all participants to their cause. A recent example is the loyalty oath<\/a> put forth by the Ravalli County RCC who struck a line in the sand between\u00a0those who support the established Republican platform and those who simply support a limited government. This line is one which currently favors the established party and hopes to force those who have much more moderate or libertarian views to the fringe. This is a line that will soon be crossed.<\/p>\n

The 2014 GOP State Convention is a perfect example of the Maginot Line dividing the party. A division vote was requested\u00a0when a member of the convention called to replace the Republican platform with the text of the constitution. The vote, which required a 2\/3 majority due to the way it was called, got an exact 50\/50 split in votes. While ultimately unsuccessful the vote tally shows the tectonic shift in the fundamental politics of those forming the #MTGOP. It shows a change to a rational and constitutionally based party grounded in sound political theory.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Ravalli County RCC’s actions have become what people expect from Republicans. We see a forced party march to an idealistic yet unrealistic goal. This represents the former Republican party. A new party, understanding of the Constitution and the Republican platform pre-1972, stands to reset politics from its current partisan division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A prevailing thought [ed: not for long] in the #MTGOP exists where people believe that a loud group\u00a0of fringe politics can force all participants to their cause. A recent example is the loyalty oath put forth by the Ravalli County RCC who struck a line in the sand between\u00a0those who support the established Republican platform […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coppercommando.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}