The Conservative Hand: A Manifesto to Achieve Conservative Political Goals - Softcover
The Tea Party movement doesn't have a single leader or a central organization, and that's the way the members of the movement like it. How though, can an unorganized movement get anything done?
Economist Adam Smith addressed this same question. He recognized that the free market is made up of countless businesses all pursuing their own goals. With no central leadership or organization the free market system in many ways resembles chaos. Yet out of this chaos emerges a coherent system that produces a greater common good: an efficient and productive economy. Smith called this phenomenon the free market's invisible hand.
In this book we'll take concepts from economics and apply them in a new and unique way to politics. From the outside it will resemble chaos, but the result will be a coherent and efficient system that achieves the goals of the Tea Party movement. Our new system will produce a greater common good without centralized organization or leadership, because (like the free market system) it will be guided by an invisible force-the conservative hand.
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From the Author:
It has been thrilling to be part of the Tea Party movement, and see power move away from the political elite and back to the grass-roots. The sleeping giant has awakened and slowed the liberal freight train, but slowing the train isn't enough. We must reverse its direction and set it on a conservative track. To do that we need more than protests and signs; we need a strategy to achieve conservative goals. This manifesto lays out a set of rules, procedures, and a new political structure that if implemented will do just that.
We'll look at how we got here and what hasn't worked in the past, then make a commitment to stop doing those things (if you get nothing else from this book, please take away the idea that we must stop doing the things that don't achieve our goals).
Then we'll create a new system--using some insights from economics and the free market system--that will achieve our political goals.
Redefining ourselves and the other political players we interact with from our perspective will allow us to quit interacting with them based upon their definition of who they are, and start interacting with them based on our definition.
We're going to create a new political organization. Not a primary party (like the Republican Party) or an independent third-party (like the Reform Party). It will be located in between those two entities, being part primary party and part third-party--a second-party. This party will operate unlike any existing political organization.
We'll define a new standard for politicians: productivity. Rather than accept vague campaign promises, politicians will commit to accomplishing our goals.
Borrowing some tools from the business world will enable us to create those goals and measure a politician's productivity.
We are going to formulate incentives for politicians that reward them for achieving our goals, and punish them for failing.
Finally, we're going to define a set of rules--something to guide us in our daily activities.
The result will be a new political framework that will allow us to achieve our political goal--enacting conservative legislation. Expect to hear frequent negative comments about this strategy (even from steadfast conservatives). After you've listened to their negative comments, listen to their solutions. Odds are they will just be rehashing the same old haven't-worked-in-the-past ideas. It's time we do something different--something that works.
Establishment Republicans and Republican politicians both jealously guard their positions and power. Sadly, many are anything but conservative. The term "Rockefeller Republican" is decades older than the term RINO (Republican in name only), but both stand for the same thing: a liberal leaning Republican. The current system--the Republican Party drifting to the left and no one closely examining their actions--works great for them. They aren't going to be any happier with us than they are with the Tea Party movement.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I didn't get involved in politics for fun, as a hobby, or because I have too much time on my hands. I became involved to achieve a set of goals--goals I know will create a better country for my family, children, and grandchildren. I'm sacrificing part of my life to achieve those goals. I don't need good intentions or a strong effort from politicians, I need results. A politician that tries hard and fails needs to be replaced with a politician that tries hard and succeeds.
It's time to unleash our conservative hand, leave our fingerprints on the political system, and put our country back on the right track.
From the Inside Flap:
We'll look at how we got here and what hasn't worked in the past, then make a commitment to stop doing those things (if you get nothing else from this book, please take away the idea that we must stop doing the things that don't achieve our goals).
Then we'll create a new system--using some insights from economics and the free market system--that will achieve our political goals.
Redefining ourselves and the other political players we interact with from our perspective will allow us to quit interacting with them based upon their definition of who they are, and start interacting with them based on our definition.
We're going to create a new political organization. Not a primary party (like the Republican Party) or an independent third-party (like the Reform Party). It will be located in between those two entities, being part primary party and part third-party--a second-party. This party will operate unlike any existing political organization.
We'll define a new standard for politicians: productivity. Rather than accept vague campaign promises, politicians will commit to accomplishing our goals.
Borrowing some tools from the business world will enable us to create those goals and measure a politician's productivity.
We are going to formulate incentives for politicians that reward them for achieving our goals, and punish them for failing.
Finally, we're going to define a set of rules--something to guide us in our daily activities.
The result will be a new political framework that will allow us to achieve our political goal--enacting conservative legislation. Expect to hear frequent negative comments about this strategy (even from steadfast conservatives). After you've listened to their negative comments, listen to their solutions. Odds are they will just be rehashing the same old haven't-worked-in-the-past ideas. It's time we do something different--something that works.
Establishment Republicans and Republican politicians both jealously guard their positions and power. Sadly, many are anything but conservative. The term "Rockefeller Republican" is decades older than the term RINO (Republican in name only), but both stand for the same thing: a liberal leaning Republican. The current system--the Republican Party drifting to the left and no one closely examining their actions--works great for them. They aren't going to be any happier with us than they are with the Tea Party movement.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I didn't get involved in politics for fun, as a hobby, or because I have too much time on my hands. I became involved to achieve a set of goals--goals I know will create a better country for my family, children, and grandchildren. I'm sacrificing part of my life to achieve those goals. I don't need good intentions or a strong effort from politicians, I need results. A politician that tries hard and fails needs to be replaced with a politician that tries hard and succeeds.
It's time to unleash our conservative hand, leave our fingerprints on the political system, and put our country back on the right track.
In 1981 Auburn had lost 18 of the last 22 games against Alabama. Auburn knew its place: the other school in the state; they were destined to be dominated by The Crimson Tide. Auburn fans were happy if the game was close, even if they didn't win, because they had accepted their place in the world.
Pat Dye took over the Auburn football program that year. He realized there was no tangible reason for Alabama's dominance over Auburn. Both schools played in the same conference, had excellent facilities, recruited at the highest level, and had the full backing of their school's administration. The one advantage Alabama did possess was not just confidence, but swagger. Alabama acted as though dominating Auburn was their divine right, and Auburn (for some reason) had bought into it.
Prior to the 1981 game, Dye walked up to the Alabama coach and said something that would change the rivalry forever: "We're not scared of you anymore." The 'Bama coach laughed; so did the Alabama fans. After 1981 Auburn won 6 of the next 8 contests--Alabama fans stopped laughing.
In the quarter century after 1981, Auburn won 60% of the games vs. Alabama. Pat Dye changed the Auburn football program from doormat to dominant because he recognized reality when no one else did. All it took was an attitude change embodied in a simple, blunt statement: "We're not scared of you anymore."
The era of Reagan is over. The country is moving to the left. Conservative stances turn off voters. We must move to the center to win elections. We must accept that we are the political minority, and just take what we can get. Over and over again we've been told--by both the media and the Republican Party--that the place of conservatism in the world has been ordained, and conservatives (for some reason) have bought into it.
Where is the tangible evidence to support this view? Polls show the majority of the country identifies themselves as conservatives (60% in some polls). Conservative books dominate every political non-fiction bestseller list. The "conservative" cable news channel has more viewers than all of the other four cable news channels combined--COMBINED! 1 in 5 people listening to the radio at this very moment are listening to talk radio--which is virtually 100% conservative. When Republicans run as proud conservatives (as they did in 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1994) they don't just win--they win landslides.
In 2009 neither the press nor politicians understood (or wanted to understand) the Tea Party movement. To them it was a fringe movement of citizens divorced from reality. They ignored and laughed at the Tea Party movement hoping it would go away so everything could get back to normal. It didn't go away, and nobody's laughing anymore.
Merely by standing up for ourselves we've gone from being disregarded to being a major power in modern politics--one that is striking fear in the old guard of politics. To those in the media that ridicule us; to politicians that imagine they are superior to us; to political parties that want to co-opt us; to political royal families convinced they have a divine right; to progressives striving to use political correctness to intimidate us; to those on the left that tell us the tea party is over our reply should be simple and blunt: we're not scared of you anymore.
Pat Dye took over the Auburn football program that year. He realized there was no tangible reason for Alabama's dominance over Auburn. Both schools played in the same conference, had excellent facilities, recruited at the highest level, and had the full backing of their school's administration. The one advantage Alabama did possess was not just confidence, but swagger. Alabama acted as though dominating Auburn was their divine right, and Auburn (for some reason) had bought into it.
Prior to the 1981 game, Dye walked up to the Alabama coach and said something that would change the rivalry forever: "We're not scared of you anymore." The 'Bama coach laughed; so did the Alabama fans. After 1981 Auburn won 6 of the next 8 contests--Alabama fans stopped laughing.
In the quarter century after 1981, Auburn won 60% of the games vs. Alabama. Pat Dye changed the Auburn football program from doormat to dominant because he recognized reality when no one else did. All it took was an attitude change embodied in a simple, blunt statement: "We're not scared of you anymore."
The era of Reagan is over. The country is moving to the left. Conservative stances turn off voters. We must move to the center to win elections. We must accept that we are the political minority, and just take what we can get. Over and over again we've been told--by both the media and the Republican Party--that the place of conservatism in the world has been ordained, and conservatives (for some reason) have bought into it.
Where is the tangible evidence to support this view? Polls show the majority of the country identifies themselves as conservatives (60% in some polls). Conservative books dominate every political non-fiction bestseller list. The "conservative" cable news channel has more viewers than all of the other four cable news channels combined--COMBINED! 1 in 5 people listening to the radio at this very moment are listening to talk radio--which is virtually 100% conservative. When Republicans run as proud conservatives (as they did in 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1994) they don't just win--they win landslides.
In 2009 neither the press nor politicians understood (or wanted to understand) the Tea Party movement. To them it was a fringe movement of citizens divorced from reality. They ignored and laughed at the Tea Party movement hoping it would go away so everything could get back to normal. It didn't go away, and nobody's laughing anymore.
Merely by standing up for ourselves we've gone from being disregarded to being a major power in modern politics--one that is striking fear in the old guard of politics. To those in the media that ridicule us; to politicians that imagine they are superior to us; to political parties that want to co-opt us; to political royal families convinced they have a divine right; to progressives striving to use political correctness to intimidate us; to those on the left that tell us the tea party is over our reply should be simple and blunt: we're not scared of you anymore.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1450595669
- ISBN 13 9781450595667
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages154
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