We, the (hypothetical) EvenNewer conservatives, ascribe to the following:
• That compassion for our neighbor and fellow-traveler is ideally volitional and actively participatory; and that taxing and redistributing takes away the sense of contributing, and we’d like a more direct sense of participating in the act of compassion
• There is a lot of our current political structure that is less than ideal; but we have no patience for calls for hitting it with a wrecking ball and THEN to construct a better replacement; instead, we want to hear new ideas, see them tested, and roll the most successful strategies in gradually, with an aim to make sure not to destroy the successful democratic mechanisms that are already in place
• We gather, and acknowledge, from the statements and political movements of people who moved to the big cities to promulgate manifestos about their marginalization, that our local communities have not been as receptive as they should have been about hearing the voices of people who feel left out. We still think a decentralized and local response is politically better, but this is a topic area where local community structures such as churches and civlc organizations need to improve. We pledge to create more local structures where dissident voices can be heard and accommodated.
• As always, we want the least governmental overhead possible, and we want to maximize individual authority rather than reducing individuals to being governmental subjects. To that end, in keeping with the John Birch Society’s observation that complete anarchy would be the most conservative solution, we want to create laboratory environments to experiment with the minimum governmental structure and the maximum individual authority that will still allow collective decision-making. We will fund test environments with an aim towards extrapolating the results to increase citizen authority within the governmental structure.
• We decry the trend toward collective volces speaking on behalf of social contingents without structures that require them to include intental dissenting voices. It is easy to assemble a political voice that speaks on behalf of this or that disenfranchised group, but it is equally easy for such a group to acquire power without an internal democratic mechanism for individuals who match the group description to express dissent.
• No nation can remain viable without paying its bills and reaching a trade equilibrium in which it is producing and distributing in roughly equal measure to what it is consuming. International economic politics and domestic eonomic politics need to aim at a balanced budget and an equitable international trade ratio.
• Overall, we’ve got a solid political system. If it needs changing, we amend it, we don’t discard it. It is ours. It works. We’re committed to it. We will tolerate no attempt to undermine it.
• Similarly, we are open to a world political unity, but we think if and when it evolves, it should mimic the American political system. To that end we support other nations and, where appropriate, revolutions, where the intent is to ensconce similar principles and similar structures. The United States will never bow down to an international structure that differs in design and intent, but we embrace any model that extends the representative democracy and structural protections of the United States government to a world government with representation and democratic participatory structures implemented worldwide.