- The prospects for the upcoming presidential election
this year are truly grim. It has gotten to the point where we can't even
hold our noses and vote for the lesser of two evils (which would still
be evil). Both presidential candidates are simply horrendous. Let's be
honest enough to face reality. The "two" major political parties
are really just two branches of the same big government, big business,
internationalist leviathan. No matter which party you vote for you will
get the same socialist programs. All that changes from one party to the
other is the rhetoric.
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- Some have said they feel George Bush is closer to those
things the Southern Movement holds dear than Kerry would be. I have serious
doubts about that. His sneaky removal of the Confederate plaques in Texas
before the last election, and Vice-president Cheney's questionable attitude
toward the Confederate flag make that a pretty remote possibility. In fact,
we might almost be better off were Kerry to win the election. At least
then, the conservative element in the country might begin to realize just
how bad off we are. Bush has curtailed more of our liberties than Bill
Clinton would have dreamed about doing, and the conservatives have gone
blindly along with him, thinking he was conservative, or not thinking at
all, just because he is a Republican.
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- We can vote for a third party candidate in the upcoming
election purely as a conscience vote. Should I vote for a presidential
candidate I would probably vote for the Constitution Party candidate because
his values seem pretty much to reflect where I am coming from. I realize
he will end up with one tenth of one percent of the vote, or at least that's
what the media will tell us he got, but I see no other options. I can not,
in good conscience, vote for either Bush or Kerry.
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- Rather than being overly concerned about who will win
the presidential election, because, at this point, we have no real choice
there anyway, I would urge Southern heritage folks and others of a patriotic
ilk to begin to think about getting involved in trying to do something
regarding the election of county or parish candidates. Many third parties,
though well-intentioned, spend a lot of money trying to run a presidential
candidate that, quite frankly, doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hell
of winning. It seems to me that a lot of that money could be spent in crucial
county races in various Southern states. Our people in various Southern
states should begin to look at possible target counties in their states
that seem to reflect at least some respect for Southern heritage, values,
and limited government. We should then begin to look for qualified candidates
in those counties that will reflect our values and support them. County
races are not nearly so expensive as presidential races, and often, a few
thousand dollars might be all that is needed in a particular county. If
we could begin to elect pro-Southern candidates to important county offices
in several counties in states across the South, pretty soon we would have
a network of counties across the Southland that will be representative
of our values and aspirations.
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- The Southern Independence Party, now organized in several
Southern and Southwestern states, promotes the idea of running good candidates
at the county level, where we have some chance of winning various county
offices. They realize that, at this point, running a candidate for president
would be an act of futility, but they may, in God's providence, be able
to find and run good candidates for county sheriff, country clerk, or whatever
other county offices are on the ballot.
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- Using this concept set forth by the Southern Independence
Party, and probably by others also, it seems that it would be much more
within our grasp to be able to influence county elections in specified
places rather than to be concerned with trying to influence the presidential
election.
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- We need to begin having counties in our Southern states
where people that are sympathetic to our views hold county offices. It
would seem to me, at this point in our history, that such is much more
realistic than worrying about which socialist will be the next president,
because no matter which one gets elected, the program he presides over
will be a socialist program. That goes without saying. Third party candidates
have to start somewhere to build political influence. Why not at the county
level? County government should be the most important level of government
in this country because it is much closer to the local folks and they can
have more input into it than they can into the Washington monstrosity.
This is an option we should seriously be considering at this point.
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- http://www.southerncaucus.org/191.htm
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