George Rebane
To some questions a silent answer speaks volumes.
Say that someone is a longtime Republican who, after much thought, has come to believe that –
- The national Republican Party (RP) is no longer a viable custodian, communicator, or champion of conservative and classical liberal values.
- The RP is in full ideological retreat with one or another of its politicians succumbing daily to the demands of the radical Left and the Democrat Party.
- The few remaining and widely accessible champions of the Right are found on radio, cable news, and the internet. Other conservative/libertarian media outlets and rightwing institutions are mostly echo chambers preaching to their choirs.
- Rank and file conservatives are reserved, avoid public notice, and appear to be waiting for the arrival of a ‘man on a white horse’ to lead them. Donald Trump has shown himself not up to that task, even though his policies, as opposed to his mouth, have on the whole been quietly welcomed by Republicans.
- Democrats at all levels have increasingly shown themselves to be virulently anti-American, now hell bent on transforming our republic into an anti-capitalist, command/control autocracy. Today their three generations of carefully public-schooled constituents – illiterate in history, governance, and the language – will expectantly follow their voluble demogauges anywhere.
- Locally Republicans are almost invisible, reticent to show their colors in public, and they don’t support fellow Republicans who do champion conservative values in the public square – when attacked by Democrats and socialists, these are abandoned to swing in the virulent winds of the Left.
- The Nevada County RP leadership is also reticent, having political imaginations firmly in the furrow of the same ol’ same ol’, while expecting a different outcome.
- The California RP has published no realistic plan for its resurgence to again become a viable political entity in the state.
- Does not know of anyone with a plan for California RP’s resurgence, nor does he know of anyone who knows anyone who claims to have such a plan.
- The RP can still be revived if it can attract a courageous, communicative, and competent leadership, from some of their current back benchers.
- Nevertheless, the now fallow RP remains on the political landscape as the only realistic opponent of Democrats today bent on establishing a socialist America.
The alternatives available to him include –
- Do nothing.
- Quietly re-register as an Independent.
- Quietly re-register as a ‘Decline-to-State’ (remaining Republican)
- Quietly re-register as a Libertarian
- Volubly re-register as an Independent
- Volubly re-register as a Libertarian.
- …?
This grim outlook on the Republican Party is shared by most of my conservetarian friends and acquaintances. For that reason I sent these thoughts to a well-known congressman with whom I have enjoyed years of exchanging ideas during visits, with emails, and through telephone conversations. I was seeking his own observations on the matter, and also his counsel to such party members and supporters. To date our other conversations continue, but on this his response has been the sound of silence.
[31jul20 update] Some examples of my frustration with today’s Grand Old Party are posted in today’s update to the 30jul20 ‘Ruminations’.
rebanesruminations.com 
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