Chris Hoitash writes in The Easten Echo
The original Whig party existed about 100 hundred years ago. Abraham Lincoln and other early Republicans came from this party, which slowly declined to extinction after the Republicans gathered steam. This new party is much more recent, and smaller, with state chapters in only 28 states, Michigan included. In other words, they’re just one of the many smaller third parties trying to get its platform heard and enacted.
However, its moderate views and platform seem to be exactly what this country needs. With more people registered as Independents, and with the extremes of each major party drowning out the more moderate members, the Modern Whigs could be the new voice for those people, especially considering the civil war between the moderate and extremely conservative Republicans. With the extremists having the benefit of yelling nonsensical gibberish to scare their voting base into supporting them, the moderates now have a new place to go if they believe their party will never properly recover. Poetic justice, irony, or the cycle of history, I’ll leave that up to you.
A little bit more about the party itself. The party was begun by veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and they advocate “… general principles of fiscal responsibility, strong national defense and educational/scientific advancement,” according to its Web site. It also advocates for state’s rights, and longtime readers of my semi-sensible ramblings might remember how big a fan of state’s rights I am, especially with the national government force-feeding Michigan Canada’s garbage because Canada pays us for it. We have Granholm, we don’t need more Canadian trash, thank you.
So if, like me, you’re tired of the Republican civil war, the Democratic fragmentation resulting in nothing getting done, and the extremists of both parties drowning out those in the middle, or if you are a moderate Republican and believe the war is lost or will be lost for your side, then the Modern Whigs might be for you. Progress can come from small beginnings, but only if those who believe the need for the progress take action. The question then is, “Is there a need for progress?”
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2 responses so far ↓
1 FreedomOne // Dec 28, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Can there be any doubt of the need!? If it isnt obvious now, the fiscal malfesance that is a product of the lack of progess will continue to sound the alarm!
2 Mik Robertson // Dec 28, 2009 at 8:52 pm
I suppose you could say the former Whig party existed about 100 years ago if you consider over 150 to be about 100. It only took a handful of election cycles after a Presidential victory for the party to be effectively dead, but you could consider that a slow decline. You can only go so far by being opposed to the policies of Andrew Jackson, I guess. Perhaps the new Whigs will get some traction by opposing the policies of the D/R duopoly.
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