Jack & Jill Politics

The
old adage “know your enemy” is ever more applicable today in America
than at any time in history. The lack of knowledge concerning the Republican
Party accounts for the author of this piece to use the question as the title,
“What do Republicans Stand for???” First of all the current post-Bush
Republican Party is severely split between three major groups who are fighting
for the ideological control of the Party.

Strangely
enough it was the election of Barack Obama, a black man which exacerbated the
cracks and pressure splits already present in the Republican Party. Check this
out! If McCain had won the presidency back in 2008, we would NOT BE witnessing
these extreme divisions within the Republican Party. As a matter of fact, if
Hillary Clinton had won the Democratic Primary and won the general election to
become president, we also would not be witnessing these extreme divisions
within the Republican Party. Thus what I am saying the fractures within the
Republican Party would have remained sticky but QUIET as long as a white person
became president in 2008. Follow the rest of my discussion below as to the
reason why I offer this conclusion.

Over
many decades the Republican Party has become home to a variety of groups
representing a wide spectrum of special interests. However, the most powerful
groups within the Republican Party can be boiled down to a total of three. The
first group is essentially the oldest group still carrying the Republican flag
for supporting the interests of wealthy citizens, such as the
reduction/elimination of government taxes and business regulations. This group
not only includes an American Plutocracy but includes most of the major Corporations
in America. So I will just call this group the Republican Corporate Plutocracy.

The
next two groups were brought into the Republican Party by then presidential
candidate Ronald Reagan in 1980. The next group was disaffected members of the
Libertarian Party who had split from the Libertarian Party over some sharp
philosophical differences within the basic Libertarian ideology back in 1976.
Reagan was able to convince the Libertarians that the Republican Party had
commonality with the Libertarian goal of a small Federal government and that
they could work together inside the Republican Party to achieve this goal. In
response to Reagan’s invitation many Libertarians joined the Republican Party
and Reagan’s campaign.

The
Last group which in the case of this discussion was the “trigger”
group were members of the southern states (previously known as the “solid
south”) whose ancestors had been Democrats from the days of the Civil War.
This huge group was known as “Dixiecrats” and they had left the
Democratic Party in droves when the Democratic Party decided to unconditionally
integrate ALL DELEGATIONS at their national convention. (The Democratic Party
adopted this policy in 1968 in response to the petition and activism of Fannie
Lou Hammer representing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.) Until 1968 the
entire Southern states delegate seating was strictly segregated. When these
seats were integrated all of the Dixiecrats left the Democratic Party. In 1968
George Wallace ran for president under the banner of the American Independent
Party whose main platform was separation of the races. Wallace, the Governor of
Alabama drew most of his support in this endeavor from the Dixiecrats of the
“solid south”. Wallace’s Party was a distant third in the general election
won by Richard Nixon.

In
1980 Ronald Reagan devised his “southern strategy” which was designed
to recruit the Dixiecrat “solid south” into the Republican Party.
Because of the historic hatred of Lincoln’s Republican Party throughout the
“solid south” this was a formidable task. However, with the help of
the newly recruited (high IQ) Libertarians and many racialist speeches condemning
“welfare queens” for turning America into a welfare state and other
such Dixiecrat hot button topics, Reagan was able to successfully bring the
“solid south” into the Republican Party. The main side effect of the
Reagan success was that the main talking points of the Republican Party now
became more directly racialist in tone and topic.

I
will call the descendants of the original Dixiecrats who joined the Republican
Party in 1980, the neo-Dixiecrats.

If
you have been following along with me down memory lane during the history
lesson above, you should be able to see that it was this group, the
neo-Dixiecrats, who became hyper-alarmed when Barack Obama beat John McCain for
the presidency in 2008. They flat out took Obama’s election to the presidency
on the most personal basis imaginable and immediately demanded that something
must be done to de-legitimize Obama’s Presidency. In response the mainstream
Republicans in Congress decided to BLOCK every initiative that Obama might send
their way, and hence they became the PARTY OF NO that has been well publicized
in the media. The sudden attention given to the neo-Dixiecrats by the
leadership of the Republican Party energized the other two main groups who then
reacted by initiating their own plans to take over the Republican Party.

The
Republican Corporate Plutocracy tasked their various lobby groups to form an
organization known as the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC which
operated primarily on the state level. ALEC was instrumental in turning over 30
state governments to complete Republican control after the 2010 election. ALEC
then supplied these legislative bodies with a huge portfolio of voter suppression
legislative language models which the Republican controlled legislatures
rapidly passed into law within their respective states.

The
other group, the Libertarian group, now driven by the presidential candidacy of
Congressman Ron Paul has been content to use the national daily publicity
concerning the status of the Republican presidential primary to get out the
clarion call to all Libertarians to mobilize and participate in the battle for
the Republican Party. The danger here is that Ron Paul’s Libertarianism is
primarily anarchic in its basic ideology and as such Paul is using his public
message to recruit fellow anarchist Libertarians or anarchists in general to participate
in the takeover of the Republican Party.

In
conclusion, to answer your question “What Does The Republican Party
Want???”, the Republican Party is currently so fractured with huge
differences between the ideological goals of the three main power groups within
the Party that the Republican Party itself is completely confused as to just what
the Republican Party should be and who it represents. This is why you hear the
current Republican Presidential candidates attempting to curry favor from each
one of these main power blocks fighting for control of the Party. Since the
primary goal of the candidates is to win the nomination, their message appears
disjointed as they direct their speeches towards three different audiences. For
example they may be speaking at one instance to the neo-Dixiecrat, and on this occasion
the topic will be peppered with an abundance of good old fashioned racial
euphemisms. At another time they may be speaking to members or associates of
the Republican Corporate Plutocracy where on such an occasion the concern and condemnation
will be over entitlement programs and/or government over-regulation and
mismanagement. Lastly and this is applicable to Ron Paul only and his speech may
address seemingly crazy societal change ideas such as legalizing prostitution
and recreational drugs. On the next occasion Paul will be urging the elimination
of the Pentagon, and all the various departments of the President’s Cabinet
such as the Department of Education, and the Department of Homeland Security.

Right
now you and I are witnessing the destruction of one of America’s major
established political Parties, and such an event is never finished without a
great deal of confusing cacophony.