As we ring in the new year, 2019, it’s time for slogan change. This is not a mission change, but a change in perception.

From our very inception we have been abundantly clear that we are about reforming the Republican Party and making it more a party of the people. We advocate a re-emphasis on Christian principles and basic American values, and by necessity this involves economic reforms that uplift the poor, the working class, and the middle class. We are egalitarian, not elitist, and our egalitarian beliefs come straight from Christian teachings. We know there is a Christian Left, and we differ from them in that we seek these socioeconomic gains through capitalism, not socialism. We want the economic system to be as family-centered as possible, and we clearly don’t want artists and entertainers controlling the flow of social change, as they have been.

There are two primary schools of economic theory within the Republican Party. One is to be most concerned with taxpayers and the economic functioning of the nation as a unit. The other is Keynesian, and to be most concerned with maximizing profits for the big corporations and the very wealthy. The truth is that only a tiny bit of wealth actually trickles down. These two factions co-exist within the Republican Party. We are unapologetically the former, hence our “populism”. We believe that as consumers are uplifted and have more money to spend, consumer spending skyrockets, and the entire economy surges forwards. This is as non-Keynesian as one can get, but still 100% committed to capitalism.

The socialist will put the full burden for providing for people’s economic needs upon the government. That protects the corporations from providing more in terms of wages or benefits. This reality is slowly setting in, and the parties are pivoting in their positions.

No better example exists of the pivot underway than Obamacare. The system was set up to maximize the profits for insurance companies operating in the middle, while the government and taxpayers are picking up the slack for a whole lot of people. And in this manner, a socialist program was fully supported by big business. It’s like they made a deal with the devil. Next comes the Far Left proposal for a universal guaranteed income. That one is primarily a means for people to have more money to pay rent. Rents will skyrocket accordingly, and the people won’t be in any better condition. The proposal is essentially a transfer of money from government to business (landlords).

We know that some forces in the Republican Party will resist our reforms, and say we are too centrist and populist to be Republicans. Not so fast. We are disgusted with what is called “The Democratic Plantation”. The Democratic political equation is to maximize it’s votes by keeping people poor, keeping them dependent upon government, keeping them renting instead of owning, keeping them living at high density, and teaching them through the media and social media to hate and fear White people, Christians, and “America”. I openly despise that political strategy, and the resulting polarization, disunity, and political squabbling. The corrupt Democratic county political organizations are the masters of those plantations. The Democratic Plantation comes with a built-in incentive to not help people advance economically. If people advance on any one of those fronts, they are less likely to vote Democrat. Well, our side has a built-in incentive as well. The more people are helped, the more likely they are to vote for our populist candidates. You can’t get any more populist than that. This is a small part of the paradigm shift.

So what’s the agenda for Economic Populism? For starters, we want to reign in on usury level interest rates and fees on credit cards, we offer major housing solutions, we have a plan to make national healthcare actually work economically, we oppose Civil Asset Forfeiture, we support Trump’s fair trade reforms, and we have pledged complete and total opposition to any kind of flat tax or national sales tax. Those tax schemes would crush the working class and middle class. Our movement is a reform movement within the Republican Party.

While these reforms could theoretically advance within the Democratic Party, the activists on the left are far too vocal, and they are in complete command of the direction of social and political change for their Party. They want Socialism, and there is simply no room under their shrinking umbrella for any ideas that run counter.

All of this is screaming for us to go under the slogan “Economic Populism”. I have been feeling a spiritual calling to make this change, and then something was spoken in my church this past Sunday. I decided on the spot that it was the time.

The slogan “Republican Populism” gives the impression that our goal is to advance the Republican Party, and whatever they stand for, and we are just a Republican cheerleader like so many people running blogs or championing the Far Right on social media. Just another player in the ongoing partisan bickering. No, that is not even close. We don’t even like all that overtly partisan nonsense. Our goal is to advance populist economic reforms along with our spiritual and cultural ideas.

Impressions are everything. Many readers are clicking onto this website, seeing the word “Republican”, groaning, and clicking away without reading a sentence. A judgment is made in a split second, and the reader goes no further. It doesn’t matter how well we articulate in the top paragraphs of the home page that we are about spirituality and reforming the Republican Party, because they aren’t reading those paragraphs or our lists of reforms and spiritual ideas.

An article entitled “The GOP’s Path to Economic Populism” was published on April 27, 2018 in The Atlantic. This article is close to the mark on my vision, but without a spiritual component. It identifies the Republican Party as the upcoming vehicle for said populism.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/democrats-economic-populism/559199/

A move towards Economic Populism also exists in the Democratic Party. Here’s an article entitled “Affluent Democrats aren’t an obstacle to Economic Populism” in Intelligencer, dated April 20, 2018. The author argues for the Democratic Party to pursue Economic Populism.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/affluent-democrats-arent-an-obstacle-to-economic-populism.html

As I said, that’s only a path towards socialism.

The parties are pivoting, and the directions of each haven’t been fleshed out. We will explain in further blogs why we believe the Democratic Party is shifting towards corporate interests, and the Republican Party is shifting towards populist interests. Spoiler Alert: what I will reveal is not out there in the world of politics. It will be a total shock, and a major paradigm-shift. Stay tuned.