The coalition of the Conservative State.
The democratic unification of destructive conservative politics.
Just what do Republicans believe in? What do they stand for? Nothing they do or say is consistent nor stays for long in the political rhetoric of their party. They have become a witch’s boil movement seeking political gain amongst a widely varied conservative voters.
During the COVID crisis the Conservative movement called for bodily autonomy when asked to increase the US populations immunity pool through vaccinations. They protested vaccination requirement requests by employers and by the government with my body, my choice. Bodily autonomy or freedom was seen as the most important movement in a key Republican faction.
Yet, when Republicans decided that the major segment of the conservative electorate wishes to use a religious viewpoint to oppose the ability of women to choose what happens to their bodies the concept of bodily autonomy ‘does not apply’ and falls moot. Women are quickly stripped of the freedom to control their lives at a family level, any personal suffering and at the risk of the woman’s own death level by a Republican conservative faction. Here conservatives claiming that the State, alone, has rights to any decision when it comes to a fertilized egg, to force the incubation of the egg by the woman to term even before the State could possibly maintain or care for an embryo.
The Republican State has begun to remove the rights of others who care for women or help a woman in these heart-wrenching, both spiritual and physical, decisions. The Conservative State has outlawed and criminalized help for the women to physically travel from their home state or seek care that is not aligned with the Conservative State’s laws. These efforts wreak of a Conservative State which believes it has been baptized by divine Providence.
These are just a couple of the political ideals that have begun to appear as part of the coalition of a variety of conservative ideas forming itself into the Republican Party. This is not different from the wide liberal idea coalition that has formed the Democratic Party. The dangerous difference is the wide breadth of the conservative movement; The inclusion of Libertarian ideals as an integral part of the conservative idea movement; and The sudden increased success of certain extremist conservative factional ideals; has created a chaotic ripple in the fabric of the US political conservative model.
The overturning of the Roe v Wade ruling by a conservative Supreme Court stripped women’s rights at a national level and returned the debate on those rights to fractured local state politics. What has risen from this decision is a chaotic national fragmentation of rights for women across a supposed ‘One Nation’ concept for the United States.
What brings the discussion of danger presented by a Republican political coalition is the merger and fundamental inclusion of the Libertarian movement within the Republican Party coalition’s politics. Libertarians have not historically been part of a conservative movement. Libertarian-ism has in the past thought of being left wing and anti-State. The elements of Libertarian philosophy lie in a market driven regulation of the economy rather than by the State. Libertarian philosophy is rooted in classical anarchism that prioritizes individual liberty rather than any freely formed associations of individuals.
STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES – US Libertarian Party Platform
We, the members of the Libertarian Party, challenge the cult of the omnipotent state and defend the rights of the individual. We hold that all individuals have the right to exercise sole dominion over their own lives, and have the right to live in whatever manner they choose, so long as they do not forcibly interfere with the equal right of others to live in whatever manner they choose.
A free and competitive market allocates resources in the most efficient manner. Each person has the right to offer goods and services to others on the free market. The only proper role of government in the economic realm is to protect property rights, adjudicate disputes, and provide a legal framework in which voluntary trade is protected. All efforts by government to redistribute wealth, or to control or manage trade, are improper in a free society.
Republican Liberty Caucus politician records. The RLC formally organized in April 1991 when the 1976 Libertarian Party presidential candidate Roger MacBride called a meeting of like-minded Republicans.
Republican Liberty Caucus
Though most of the Republican members of congress ranked by the RLC would balk at being described as Libertarian the mixing of Libertarian political theory with Republican Party conservative politics is unmasked.
The phoenix rises; AnarchoCapitalism overtakes traditional conservatism.
The Trump Administrations and Elon Musk’s DOGE recent destruction of USAID foreign aid is founded in Libertarian economic policy. the opposition of taxation for the purpose of re-distribution is fundamental to Libertarian thought. Foreign aid is essentially a non-market action by a State that is enabled by taxation. The Libertarian statement; ‘People should not be forced to sacrifice their lives and property for the benefit of others.’
The Reagan 1980 Republican Party platform was not opposed to foreign aid and stated;
Democratic capitalism has demonstrated, in the United States and elsewhere, an unparalleled ability to achieve political and civil rights and long-term prosperity for ever-growing numbers of people. We are confident that democracy and free enterprise can succeed everywhere. A central element in our programs of economic assistance should be to share with others the beneficial ideas of democratic capitalism, which have led the United States to economic prosperity and political freedom. Our bilateral economic assistance program should be directed at promoting economic growth and prosperity in developing nations.
It appears that conservative viewpoint does include economic assistance for nearly half a century. Yet, the Trump administration has taken a radical approach of destroying all foreign economic aid.
Anarcho-capitalism is a political philosophy and political-economic theory that advocates the voluntary exchange of goods and services in a society broadly regulated by the market rather than by the state. The term anarcho-capitalism was coined by Murray Rothbard, a leading figure in the American libertarian movement in the 1950s.
Yes, conservative policies have long advocated for responsible government that is based upon fiscal conservatism. The idea of the destruction and stoppage of all US economic aid has not been a key focus point.
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Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, directed that the Post opinion’s section would exclusively align with libertarian priorities. Coupled with Musk, Bezos is using his newspaper to advance the theories of Libertarianism and not democratic capitalism. You cannot call these two extremely wealthy individuals, anarchist leftists, but their activity is definitely libertarian political thought.
There are several types of political thought but social and economic theories have been used to separate the two political parties for the past seventy years. Every since Reagan there has been in Republican social theory a point on individual freedom.
A society … of maximum individual liberty and freedom of choice. Properly informed, our people as individuals or acting through instruments of popular consultation can make the right decisions affecting personal or general welfare, free of pervasive and heavy-handed intrusion by the central government into the decision making process. This tenet is the genius of representative democracy. – 1980 Republican Platform
Republicans have also been advocates that the capitalist free market economic theory was the bedrock method to advance any free and democratic society.
Free enterprise is fundamental to the American way of life. It is inseparable from the social, religious, political, and judicial institutions which form the bedrock of a nation dedicated to individual freedom and human rights.
Economic growth enables all citizens to share in the nation’s great physical and spiritual wealth, and it is maximized by giving them the fullest opportunity to engage in economic activities and to retain the rewards of their labor – 1984 Republican Platform
Anarcho-capitalism is a system that professes that individuals should be allowed use of free association for all matters now handled by a government bureaucracy. All decisions being made by what you would think as needed from a bureaucratic government would be made by those that own the rights to such a service. The basis for this is a market system that current government order and rules are run by private companies.
To understand the concept of having private companies/societies that regulate instead of government, think about the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). This society (one of many such societies) writes proprietary rules for pressure vessels. Their rules decide how the vessels are designed, manufactured and controlled. They make money off selling copies of their rules, inspection services and certification processes. Adherence to their rules in most states are cited in the laws governments made and all those using or selling boilers for heat, pressure vessels for air or other gases in those states have to comply with ASME and would get a visible stamp certifying it. An Anarcho-capitalists would say that there should be no government that forces you to use these regulations. The Anarcho-Capitialist would say that you would freely seek out such as your market dictates. Their is a similar concept in UL listed (United Laboratories) or ETL (Edison Testing Laboratories) in everything from waterproof watches, toasters, hair dryers and explosion proof equipment for hazardous atmosphere use. People would just stop working there or using your products if they blow up or electrocute you. You would freely use rules based products depending on the market. This forces the requirement understanding the benefit of certain rules onto consumer and is not dictated by government.
This concept is also true on the macro level for the Anarcho-Capitalists. Judicial and political power can be owned, sold, rented and bought. The society or company that provides judicial authority would be like a Western town sheriff. The residence would contract an individual or company of individuals to protect their towns. This lucrative contract could then be sold by the first company to another company depending on the terms of the private contract. The same concept is applied to judicial protections. There is no political bureaucratic system that appoints judges or police. They are locally hired.
This concept can be analogous to political power to decide daily decision like a city manger for instance who is contracted to run a city. The difference is that the city manger/company is for profit and owns all the rights within the contract to make all decisions. This includes employees that could be part of the company to run city required services.
The problems with this concept is that there is considerable power in the contracts at any level. Who has not watched the old western movie where the sheriff has gone rogue or the big ranch owner who hired the sheriff buys up all the town because the railroad is coming through?
Anarcho-Capitalism may sound good in principal, being free of a government bureaucracy but enables individuals to use market forces to acquire and monopolize great economic and political power. DOGE is an example of a private company hired to control and reshape the bureaucracy without input from the current system of people’s representation approvals.
These fundamental government principles are found in the Trump administration has allocated the effort to reduce of government staff and determine the efficiency of any remaining government agency to a semi-private company masked as an agency called DOGE. Musk, who heads DOGE seeks to further privatize the USPS and AMTRAK.
Anarcho-capitalism enables a few individuals to acquire immense economic and political power. The power Musk has suddenly gained over the government, under Trump, is an example. Musk moved at will to cut funding and Trump has covered his tracks by the removal of safeguards in our government against corruption and ethics failures by the removal of government Inspector Generals.
Some would claim, there are checks to the accumulation of power of executive branch. They would decry as alarmist any opposition but these are muted by two factors. The dissolution of legislative power by factional party politics and the gelding of the judicial branch first, by their grants of executive branch criminal immunity, second by intimidation through party line impeachment.
There are several types of governments that run nations in the world. Some if not all governments include both economic and social aspects of the societies or nations they govern.
China for example, has a Socialist-Capitalist government. There the governmental party owns all property and decides all social issues. It is often called communism but it changed in the 1970s to a market-oriented system. It has a hybrid form of Socialism where the the economic model is capitalistic in nature. Individual companies compete for markets and capital based on free market ideals. All the rules for doing business, retaining profits and social interaction are controlled by the single party government run by wealthy oligarchs.
Russia has a Oligarchy-Capitalist government. The government is formed and affected by a few extremely wealthy individuals in a free market or capitalist methods. The government decides all social issue but is controlled by a small group. Oligarchies are similar to a medieval form of an aristocracy.
One could argue that all governments are some form of Oligarchies, even the United States. Certainly the current Trump administration with so many extremely wealthy individuals in positions of power would ring at such a question. Republicans like to say they are capitalists defending the Republic against a liberal Democratic party form of socialism. Their rhetoric of denouncing the opposition party often uses social economics terms ‘Marxist, Communists and even Fascists. But have Republicans really become a recently evolved Anarcho-Capitalists movement resistant to a historically Liberal-Capitalist republic founded on the formation of political parties that sought by natural differences in interests real or supposed to establish a political equity among all?
So what does really all mean?
Libertarianism has often been considered a synonym for Anarchism. The dissolution of government in favor of the individual’s freedoms. If accused Republican party members will decry they are not an anarchists movement , anarchy is considered liberal or leftists. So why is it, as we began, Republicans hold that bodily autonomy is a fundamental right? Yet, it is no longer that fundamental right when the Republican religious faction needs to commission the state to enforce control over a female citizen’s body as an incubator to accommodate their views.
Republicans cannot answer those questions because theirs is a coalition political power party formed upon an anarchy coalition. Each faction of the party wields varying political power based on current cultural ideals. There are Republicans that don’t approve of the removal of women’s rights to bodily autonomy. Yet, they accommodate the inequality based upon libertarian economic measures or views that are offered.
Anarchy is defined as a society without rulers. Republicans under Donald Trump have become a party without rules. Trump would grab any idea and any political thought to keep the breadth of party politics as widely defined as possible to include those not truly aligned with conservative ideas.
Anarchy is also defined as not only an absence of government but also an absence of governance. The Republicans party has no guiding leadership other than Trumps chaotic and wide ranging cultural visions. This has caused an extreme wide belief system coalition to be formed to hold onto power in the present day Republican party. As a party they did not form a ‘party’ in the sense James Monroe defined in 1792 essay. Republicans are unable to ‘establish a political equity among all.’ Republicans are unable or unwilling to ‘withhold unnecessary opportunities from a few to increase the inequality of property by an immoderate accumulation of riches.’ Republicans are unable to ‘operate a government of laws without violating the rights of others nor are they interested in the reduction of extreme wealth or raise indigence to the level of comfort.’ Madison’s argued that a government should help to ensure political equality, create an equitable distribution of property and refuse to grant special privileges.
The present day Republican party is in fact an anarchist vision with no rudder on its beliefs or empathy for those it would tread upon to retain political power. A power for the increasing of economic advantage of the few to indulge (or engorge) themselves on extreme wealth. Republicans choose to wield this power to favor one interest at the expense of another. Republicanism has evolved into the Anarcho-Capitalist’s vision of limitless property and the support for private institutions with significant economic power.
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