@roamer_1
Excellent article,
@Bigun , and I agree in very large part.
I absolutely agree that the Republican party is bastardized, as well as most institutions. The moderates have held the reins for far too long, to include policy and finance. Long ago I quit membership in all of them, except GOA. I have not contributed at the institutional level in nearly a decade, to include NRTL by the way. They are all, as the article states, mere sinecures, though I would go further to state that is the wrong idea really, as they do provide service - But that service is to Republican moderates and their corporate-globalism plan.
The whole kit and kaboodle is a corruption.
I profoundly agree with a more distributed system (heh, big surprise there I bet). A distributed system is far harder to attack, and as nodes become corrupted, they are far easier on the overall system to excise or dry on the vine.
I also believe that Conservatism (as it touches politics), NEEDS a reliable reference - It NEEDS desperately to be defined and taught. It REQUIRES an orthodoxy. And it needs to be easily accessible to the public.
The functions of Conservatism have been wholly corrupted by hypen-ism and intentionally muddied by Republican/RNC to the point that even here, on a premiere Conservative forum, few here can cite Conservatism by the numbers.
The only thing I profoundly disagree with is an implied subservience to 'America First', which is a hollow and undefined thing - In that, the risk is in yet another hyphenated and bastardized form. The whole point of Conservatism (in politics) is its service to the factions thereof, and the promotion of their immovable principles - Creating a coalition whose intent is to uphold ALL of those factional principles in order to form a force large enough to compete in elections.
Those decrying those principles, or disdaining unity and unity candidates work directly against what American Conservatism is designed to do.
