I realize it is an archaic term, but in the archaic sense, it is someone who believes in limiting the size of government and implement policies where the ratio of National Debt/GDP actually falls. It is someone who views government as the problem rather than the solution. In other words, it certainly isn't Donald Trump.
Problem is, the 'original' Republican had no problem with unbridled power, suspending the Constitution and Habeas Corpus, rounding up people and jailing them on suspicion, states militarily invading another, provided those States had voted for him, etc. He also went for an income tax and fiat money (greenbacks), even declaring war on part of the population he disagreed with, invading and trashing their homeland.
Hard act to follow, that.
But, irony of ironies, in the pursuit of conservatism, I have washed up on the shores of the Republican Party, because the Democrat Party has become the home of the patently insane, declaring that those who are generations removed from slavery are entitled to compensation for that institution's existence, claiming that the only way to make things "right" for the 1/4 of the population that is not "only white", is loot the majority for having worked hard and achieved, to the alleged benefit of that fraction that (for whatever reason) has not and to dumb down and oppress that 3/4. Other insanities apply, like ignoring the Constitution and the law, and even the Courts' specific rulings to do as they please. One of the Charges Against the King in the Declaration of Independence comes to mind:
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our
people, and eat out their substance.
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But, today, I am a man without a Major Party I feel the ability to wholeheartedly embrace.
As the GOP abandons the Conservatism that peaked with Barry Goldwater, (I wasn't old enough to vote, but I still have my 'Goldwater dollar') and even slides away from the reasonable policies of Ronald Reagan, I am seeing two flavors of nuts, opposite ends pf the same spectrum, almost equally Hell-bent on spending what savings I have into inflation diminished oblivion, seemingly trying to outdo each other in the number of sigmas from the mean they can achieve in the bipolarization of the American psyche.
No wonder America isn't mentioned in End Times Prophecy. It will be sucked into the vortex of its own decay at this rate, to the bitter disappointment of millions of us.
As far as this election goes, the best man will not win. He wasn't on the ticket, and if he had been, he would have been driven away long ago.
