The Reformed Republican

A Call for a Repentant, Fact-Based, and Sadder-But-Wiser Republican Party

I have previously posted my beliefs as a Reformed Republican.

I believe government derives its legitimacy through the direct or implied consent of the majority with minority rights protected through the separation of powers and the Bill of Rights. 

I support liberal ideals of individual freedom and equal opportunity that is nonetheless mindful of its responsibility to conserve our common, inherited traditions of civic virtue, the support of families, and identification with a common American culture based on the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution rather than on race, ethnicity, or religion.

As a centrist, I possess both left-wing and right-wing tendencies and am unashamed of either. In a media environment that favors and amplifies dramatic conflict we should speak and act in ways that favor and amplifies the new “silent majority”: the non-extremist middle.

I support incremental social reform both as a moral responsibility to our fellow citizens as well as a means of preventing (if possible) a violent, revolutionary reaction that may or may not bring about reform. 

I now add this…

I support the radical reformation of the current Republican party to completely separate itself from the current political tactics to which it is addicted and that hold its representatives in captivity including:

• Ideological extremism
• Aiding and Abetting Racism
• Aiding and Abetting the Manufacture of Conspiratorial Delusions
• Aiding and Abetting the Delegitimization of Institutions of Public Facts Including the Press, the Civil Service, Scientific Consensus, and the Judiciary.
• Demonization of Opponents
• Demonization of the Federal Government to the Extent of Advocating for Shutting Down the Government and Defaulting on America’s National Debt

I support a reformed Republican of fact-based, inclusive, principled but pragmatic conservatism.