Clean Up the Mess in Washington? I’m there, but there must be a far reaching political organization to replace it.
Part I: A small group must be created as a shadow GOP. They learn how to function as a political organization. They are the seed that will take over eventually. It would have to start with only one issue: Illegal Immigration.
Part II: Supporting the shadow GOP must be both some money people, and a disciplined national organization. I would propose it be by congressional district. Even then, it would still lack grass roots.
Part III: The hardest part: Putting up quality candidates for office.
A proposal fraught with risk. But do we have a choice?
I have been presenting this same analysis of the immigration issue -- as usurpation of the people's legislative authority by a ruling political elite and a rejection of the central achievement of the American revolution (self-government)--- ever since Bush was running the first time. In our self-governing "republican" regime, all legislative authority resides with the people who exercise it through their elected representatives in Congress. With the immigration issue, we have witnessed a wholesale rejection of this principle and an overturning of our right to govern ourselves by a ruling elite composed not only of politicians but also by elites in business, the media, and academia.
Both parties have cooperated in a scheme to deny the people what they want on this issue despite passing laws for decades that make it a crime to come to America illegally. They have done this by passing laws and then disabling them and refusing to hold the President accountable for enforcing them. Both major parties do everything they can to deny us a choice by preventing pro-enforcement people from ever getting on their ballots.
Bush is a special case in that unlike previous Presidents, he doesn't even make a pretense of performing his Presidential duty by enforcing our laws. He virtually shut down what inadequate workplace enforcement existed under Clinton when he took office. His outrageous and arrogant refusal to enforce our laws based merely on his personal preference shows he does not believe in or support the American project of self-government and he is willing to enforce his personal policies on us in defiance of the very laws we have enacted. He is no believer in the rule of law and he holds himself above even our constitution which binds him to this law.
Our founders anticipated this danger and provided a remedy for such usurpation of the people's right to govern themselves -- impeachment. The fact that the House of Representatives has not threatened impeachment on this issue means that they also do not take seriously their responsibility to defend the people's rights to our form of government and in all probability are in agreement with the elite project of overturning our "republican" form of government.
This is a direct assault on the foundational principles of self-government -- that the people are sovereign -- and the political and ruling elites are conducting a coup from above against our constitution which rests all legislative authority with the people. The remedy, short of revolution, is political organization but relying on the two existing political parties with their dependence on special interests has not, and probably will not, provide the choices we need.
Restoring self-government may require a third party to effect a political realignment based on who supports our entire constitutional project of republican self-government. The minutemen and other anti-illegal immigration groups could well be the nucleus of such a political movement. In the end it is really up to us to defend our rights to self-government. Benjamin Franklin warned us upon the passage of the constitution that our republican form of government "can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other."
As this article illustrates, our ruling elites are onboard and full speed ahead with the project of "corrupting" the American people, even if it means importing people easier to corrupt, in order to revoke the results of the American revolution. The question is do "we the people" care enough to resist this elite project?