Welcome back to Jeff Dover, the second article from my most recent correspondent from Arizona USA.. Things seem to be hotting up at warp speed, for America, think “Australia” – not much difference, in this monkey’s opinion. That is why I like the emerging Liberal Democrat Party here. A short biography for Jeff appears at the end of his article.

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We Have to Stop Kidding Ourselves

Jeff Dover Copyright

“Third Parties Always Lose!”  “You’ll Split the Vote and the Democrat Will Win!”

So go two of the stock deprecating statements of those who want no solution to the dire straits America and Americans find themselves in today.   They who are in league with that Establishment responsible for the current state of affairs or who are perhaps merely weak, lacking vision, play on our trepidation when attempting anything out of the ordinary. Their statements are redolent of TV sportscasters saying at a critical moment “no one in the past thirty years has done thus and such and succeeded…” and then the guy goes and makes it happen.  He didn’t care about what had happened in the preceding thirty years, if he even knew.  That was then, not now; it was them, not him.  He knew he was right and was determined to make it happen.  To fail was to lose. Determined to win, not to lose, he pressed on.  We’ve seen similar situations countless times.

Those two hysterical responses to creation of a political fighting force to regain our country and its founding principles, are patently false.  

Yet it’s undeniable: we who champion America’s founding precepts and values have no true representation in US Congress or the White House, nor have we had any anywhere in Washington since Reagan and Trump occupied the White House.  But those two excellent men couldn’t get it done alone.   Reagan had nothing but Democrat congressional majorities for his two terms. Then, Trump’s own party, the GOP with the congressional majority we gave the Republicans, left him totally alone.   Worse, many of them were also stabbing him in the back, hampering his ability to even accomplish that which he had no need of congress to accomplish. That the GOP congressional majority supported none of the policies for which we elected the president in a landslide, blocking them at every turn.  In so doing, the larger Republican Party belied once more their refusal to work for their electorate, while continuing instead to serve the interests of global elites and corporations.

Inevitably however, anytime someone brings up “new party” the naysayers come piling out.  Some of them come at you with derision and others adopt learned tones, explaining at length in terms of “conventional wisdom” why such a movement is doomed to failure from the start.  Challenged to explain what the Republican Party has done to answer the needs and wants of its voters in the past thirty years however, one is met with silence.  The reason is simple: the GOP done absolutely nothing to advance any single one of our goals.  There is nothing for them to point to.  Instead, we get the same, monotonous, nowhere exhortation: “Vote the Republicans In Name Onlys out.”

RINOs are the Party!  

They run it, they choose who gets money and who gets press.  They decide who will be the state’s chairman.  They decide who becomes Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader, and they, in turn, decide what comes up for a vote in congress, in what form it comes up and when it comes up.  They also decide what will not be voted on.  

Question: how do Americans vote out RINOs in a party which the RINOs own?  

It’s their club!  They decide who advances within it in the states and nationally.  How does Mitt Romney’s niece become the Party chairman?  To exclaim “Vote out the RINOs!” one might just as well say “Let’s vote out the Pope and his cardinals and replace them with some Protestants!”

So what is the solution?  

How do we take our majority to a new party, a party dedicated to returning all those things lost in our country now?  For starters, we must create the form, a party structure within which people can work to bring things aright.  It can’t be modelled after the existing form, or the same conditions will once again come to prevail.  

The new party cannot be run like a social club.  

It must instead be run like a corporation dedicated to the production and distribution of a product.   The “product” will be the policy goals and agenda.   “Popularity” must not be the prime reason for installing persons in high party office either nationally or in the states.  Such appointments should not be solely based on one’s financial or social prominence.  They must have ideological prominence.  Competence and demonstrated, single-minded dedication to bringing the party’s goals to reality must be the prime characteristics sought for party leadership.  There is no room in the new party for “personalities”. The Party’s goals cannot be watery.  

If one goes to the GOP website one finds no defined, detailed set of legislative objectives.  There is no agenda or strategy for achieving the few watery statements which do appear there.  All must be there for the voter to see.  Why is it the practice that no specific goals or policies are available to be seen?  The result is that there is no true leadership in the party where it counts.  There are only those who get elected running around with their own agenda without open direction from the larger party.

The new party must put detailed legislative objectives on its website for all to see.  They can be goals set out to be achieved within given timelines, including goals for the acquisition of new congressional seats from the various states.

There can be no deviation from the achievement of the stated goals among any party members who are voted to congress.  

What is the point of having members of a party, sent to Washington, DC, who do not believe in every one of the larger party’s policy goals and legislative agenda?  Given that the party’s goals will all be published prior to any election, one can assume that those who vote for members of the new party are in agreement with most of those goals.  So, how can it be that any member of congress sent there by those voters is free to vote against one of the party’s goals – or by failing to appear for the vote, do so by proxy?  Such treachery from a party member will not be tolerated in the new party.  Those who violate their fiduciary to the voters will be summarily expelled from the new party.

How does the party remove the influence of money in congress?

 Voting decisions must be removed from the members of congress.  We’re all aware of lobbies and the influence of money in Washington.  In one way or another, there’s no denying its influence.  Its influence is how we got to where we are.  The only way to eliminate its effect is to take voting decisions out of the hands of the individual members of congress in the new party.  That means as well, that should the new party find one of its members of congress to be House Speaker or Senate Majority Leader, that decisions of votes, timing and content would also be taken outside that person’s authority.

An unelected body of persons within the party structure would supply the decisions on a vote of any question before congress.  There could be any number of forms for such a body, but it would seem reasonable that two party members from each state would meet with all the others to decide on questions and them relay their decisions to the party’s sitting members of congress.  Those persons would then cast their votes as directed by the party, not by or due to any outside private influence of the many forms that could take.  Lobbying no longer matters with the new party.  Only the voters matter.

A potential framework for such a party exists at FounderspartyofAmerica.org.  

It’s just that: only a framework waiting for some visionaries with energy and clean hands to run with the concept and take our people out of the swamp the corrupt people we have sent to Washington, DC have put us into up to our necks.

That corrupt body is now seeking to cement its corruption as the norm with the indictment of former President Trump.  Meanwhile consider  the kinds of people who currently occupy the halls of our government!

Is there any time to lose?  Isn’t it past time to stop kidding ourselves, thinking that “voting out the RINOs” is a useful strategy?   

As for “hope”, that’s just an excuse to do nothing. “Hope” is not a strategy.  How about closing our ears to the naysayers and pressing on with a real strategy based on a new method?  As Missouri senator Hawley-(R) tweeted following the 2022 elections, “The old party is dead.  Time to bury it. Time to build something new.”  

Let’s get started!

Jeffery S. Dover

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Jeff Dover is a retired sales executive with forty years of sales and sales management experience.  A six-year US Navy submarine veteran.  Following Navy service, Jeff graduated college with a BA degree in Political Science.  There he focused heavily on International Relations, Russian Studies and language, and Economics, also serving as a panelist on a televised Foreign Policy Association broadcast.  He served as well as secondary school liaison for the New Hampshire Council on World Affairs.  He is married, currently living in the Phoenix, Arizona