What is the purpose of the GOP?
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The Whig Party was formed as the antithesis to the Federalist Party. The Whigs wanted to continue the Lockean tradition of respecting the rights of the people and self-determination through minimal government. The Federalists wanted to build a strong nation by consolidating power in the federal government.
After many years of back-and-forth, eventually the Whigs became the dominant party.
The Democratic Party was invented to combat the Whigs. They wanted to give people the power to vote themselves money and power and consolidate power among an elite few super-wealthy. It was almost by mistake that they stumbled upon two popular issues that made them the new part of the South before the Civil War: tariffs and slavery.
See, the Whigs used tariffs both to encourage manufacturing at home but also as a revenue source. With tariffs, the United States was rapidly becoming the economic powerhouse of the world all while tax rates were practically zero. The South felt pressured by the tariffs because they were competing with India in the cotton trade, and the UK was putting tariffs on cotton as a response to the US putting tariffs on their manufactured goods. The cotton industry was also mechanizing and they required equipment that could be bought cheaply in the UK but the tariffs made them buy from American manufacturers instead.
Anyway, the slavery issue was really the one that made the democrats popular. The fear of slave revolts was forefront, and various abolitionists weren't helping. Democrats voted for democrats to accumulate power among the wealthy few with the promise that they would protect the people from any slave uprising.
The Republican Party came into being as a third party because the Whigs refused to do anything about the rising threat from the democrats. The Republicans promised to wage political war against the democratic elite. Abolition wasn't even a primary concern of the party.
My point is this: The Democratic Party is evil and blight on our political system, and always has been. At the conclusion of the Civil War, the Republican Party had a window of opportunity where they could've abolished the Democratic Party and confiscated all the assets of the wealthy elite running it, but instead they made peace. The Republican Party had one mission, and it failed in it, a long time ago.
The Republican Party since the Civil War has been trudging along, tagging a number of unrelated issues as their political platform and existing as the opposition party (in name only). It serves no purpose. It has no positive identity other than "We're not democrats!"
We need a new party, two actually. The first needs to be the "Anti-Democratic Party" which exists for the SOLE purpose of destroying the powerbase of the democratic and republican party. Anyone who holds immense wealth and political influence should be targeted by these people. The end goal is to return power to the people (literally, the white landowners, not "people" in general.) We'll know that this party has succeeded when suffrage is limited to only white landowners and when the constitution is re-written to prevent expansion of voting rights beyond this.
AFTER the anti-democratic party is successful, we can bring back the Whig Party, which exists solely to protect the individual rights of white landowners and no one else.