EDITORIAL by Anthony Mele
I know I am a Republican because I refuse to let my party or my political value system be defined by external forces like a left wing media, left wing democrats or Republican’s In Name Only [RINO’s], nor centrists who possess no core value or foundation. Harriet Tubman said, “I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed another thousand if they knew they were slaves.”
On a linear scale of the political spectrum imagine the carpenter’s tool called a “level.” That double winged ruler looking gizmo with a liquid tube in the middle and air bubble that centers itself when the surface is level. The plane is level when the center bubble remains static between the lines. To adjust the center bubble, you must tilt the level left or right till it finds that sweet spot. If this were a political measuring tool, a centrist continues to move either left or right until the sweet spot is achieved. A centrist does not have any firm core values; they just shift to which ever side leans to what suits the present need at the time. A centrist can shift just as quickly and easily to the opposite side, because they have no core value of its own. A centrist is not a Republican.
The Left Wing of the political spectrum is represented on the far left by those forms of government that are Totalitarian, Communist, Monarchies, and Oligarchies. Far left wing political systems included the National Socialist Party of Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, also called Fascism. From center to degrees moving left the political system requires more government control and less individual freedoms. So the more left wing you move from center, you occupy Socialism, Communism, Marxism and Totalitarianism. The Democrat Party of today slips further to the far left wing of the political spectrum. As we see, it seeks more control and denies the individual greater liberty. A Republican is not a Democrat.
The far Right Wing of center includes systems having basically no government at all. This system is called Anarchy. Everyone is left to their own device and ability to protect their private property without the rule of law. A Republican is not an Anarchist. Moving from the far right a quarter of the way to center is Confederation. Each political body or state acts independent of each other with no central law or standard to keep regular the free flow of commerce or protection of the individual. A Republican is not a Confederate.
A three quarters of the way toward center from far right, lay the Constitutional Republican form of government, that our nation was founded upon; a nation of laws. A Republican form of government means that the population is self-ruled by the equity of Constitutional law. No one is greater or lesser than the law as it is enshrined in the US Constitution. A Republican form of government is not a democracy, which is rule by the majority not by the law.
A Republican form of government protects the minority from the dictatorship of the majority. The Republican system of government “holds these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Republicanism protects and sets apart the inalienable rights of its citizens, meaning no future government can ever take it away, ever. The only ‘ism,’ Republicanism protects or promotes under the rule of law is, Individualism. The rights of the individual to be free to speak, bear arms, secure in their personal property, free from illegal search and seizure, to practice the religion of their choice, to assemble, to have a free press, all congeal into a party system of representative government that is encapsulated in the Republican Party.
There are no subdivisions of these like moderates or extremist in the Republican Party. Either you are a Republican or not. A Republican is not the caricature painted by cynics passing as satirist or comedians passing as political scholars. A Republican is a Constitutionalist in the thinking and tradition of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and George Washington. A Republican is a revolutionary in a world occupied Oligarchs, Monarchs, Marxist, and Socialists who would enslave the minds and bodies of humanity, under the guise of being a caretaker regime, that would snuff out individualism.
A nation of laws founded on Republican principles is a Rebel Nation. I am a rebel in a society of complacency and automatons that would surrender liberty for the illusion of safety. Give the slave the key to his own chains and he will choose liberty. That is why I am a Republican.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Anthony Mele is a 2012 Candidate for Congress and was the 2010 GOP candidate for Congressional District 17. He is a small business owner, a Tea Party Supporter and a former intelligence staff NCO for high level national security officials in the Pentagon
This article was reposted with permission from the Author from The Rockland County Times.
