Amazingly enough, despite nominating the most brash, annoying and worse – progressive -presidential candidate in the history of the party, Republicans last week managed to produce quite a conservative platform.
As expected, a quick perusal of the major search engines for “GOP Platform 2016” will return pages of leftist fear-mongering, distortions and outright lies about the latest positions (Note to conservatives: as usual, skip to page 5 or 6 of a search to increase your chances of actually finding an objective review). In a sane world they’d be dismissed out-of-hand for the drivel that they are ~
• “The Stuff Nightmares are Made Of”
• “11 ways the Republican platform attacks the environment”
• “Disavows the rights of women, same-sex couples, trans people, Palestinians, immigrants, and more”
• “Proposes To Get Rid Of National Parks And National Forests”
• “The Most Extreme Republican Platform in Memory”
• “China Upset With ‘Groundless Accusations’” [Among other things, the Republican platform specifically mentions China’s “preposterous claim to the entire South China Sea,” “the timely sale of defensive arms” to Taiwan and “cultural genocide” in Tibet and Xinjiang.]
• “Incredibly radical agenda: deregulate pollution, halt any action to prevent climate change, and expand fossil fuel use”
Steven Rosenfeld, writing at a reality-free site called “Raw Story,” wins the award for spurious hyperbole calling the platform “shockingly extreme right-wing.” (Gasp!) ~
The Republican Party platform is a wish list for what Republicans in Congress and Donald Trump would like to impose on America. What’s surprising is that it goes further to the right than what’s even been heard on the campaign trail from Trump as he has promised to build a wall along the Mexican border and embrace the religious right’s long-held tenets opposing abortion, LGBT rights and more.
The GOP 2016 platform would make Christianity the official American religion, (LIE) English the official American language (DISTORTION), replace sex education with abstinence-only advice for teenagers (LIE), privatize almost all areas of federal services (LIE), cut taxes and regulations for the rich and titans of industry (DISTORTION), and impose a belligerent foreign policy (LIE) and military build-up (DISTORTION).
[What planet is this dude living on?]
Essentially the 2016 GOP platform – to paraphrase the preamble – embraces the following positions ~
• Undo much of the damage Obama and his Leftist associates have done to the economy ( with their bloated government, outrageous entitlement programs and burdensome regulations), healthcare, the military and America’s international leadership (re-institute Reagan’s peace-through-strength philosophy).
• Supporting traditional family values
Matt Barber, writing at The Stream, believes that these goals have the potential to reunite even the #NeverTrumpers with the mainstream GOP if – and it’s a yuge IF – Donald Trump wholeheartedly embraces and supports it ~
(T)o unify the Republican Party and admit into triage an America on the precipice of total collapse (and to put us on the road to recovery), nominee Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress should immediately pledge to implement every plank of the platform over the next four to eight years, reversing that which may already be irreversible — the “fundamental transformation” of America (read: the tragic sabotage of this once great nation) at the hands of Barack Obama.
If Mr. Trump will make a very public guarantee that, if elected, he will work tirelessly to implement the 2016 GOP platform, such a pledge, followed by subsequent overt acts, would go a long way toward winning over his many remaining conservative naysayers. Who knows? Even National Review might hold its nose and hop on the Trump Train.
America can’t afford this platform to be ignored as simply a wish list of soaring platitudes intended to placate the conservative base of the GOP. It must be adopted and implemented as the blueprint for America’s future.
As a detailed plan to help restore the Republic to the Constitution-based government of the founders’ vision, the GOP platform is superb. In fact the only real problem with it – provided Trump could even be persuaded to promote it between now and November – ONCE ELECTED, NO ONE WILL FOLLOW IT!
If the Republican platform ever actually meant anything to the elected officials who claim to support it while they’re running, they would have pushed back long ago (Kind of like senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee been trying to do for the last four years!), and we wouldn’t be “on the precipice of total collapse.”
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Related:
Just How ‘Far Right’ Is the GOP Platform? ~
(U)ntil just a few years ago, the (2016) Republican platform is what nearly all Americans believed. So exactly which party should more accurately be described as being “far” and “extreme”? Where Leftmedia outlets are concerned, if you’re not moving their direction, then you are the “extremist.”
