The Conservative Party

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Conservatism is a way of understanding life, society, and governance. It an ideology heavily influenced by certain philosophers, among them Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, John Locke, Hobbes and Rosseau. We, strictly believe in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live freely and pursue that which motivates us, not because man or a government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.
 
We recognize in a society of harmony of interests, as Adam Smith put it, and rules of cooperation that have developed through generations of human experience and collective reasoning that promote the better of the individual and society.
 
We also adopt a Burkean attitude to the issue of change, that prudence must be exercised in assessing societal or political change. Prudence is the highest virtue for it is judgement drawn on wisdom. Change should be informed by the experience, knowledge, and traditions of society, tailored for a specific purpose, and accomplished through a constitutional construct that ensures thoughtful deliberation by the community. However, our primary goal is seeking to preserve and improve our civil society.

 



 



 

1. Strong Nucleus Families
   Families intent on giving their children the hope of a better tomorrow, the promise of a safe and secure today, and an appreciation and respect of yesterday. We believe in the traditional definition of a nuclear family, that is, a family unit that includes two married parents of opposite genders and their biological or adopted children living in the same residence. Children brought up in this environment will experience and develop greater self-sufficiency and independence, share the strongest bonds with their immediate relatives and tend to experience less conflict of family values across different generations.

2. Principled, Innovative Leadership
   We believe and offer principled leaders with an understanding of San Andreas's heritage and a clear vision for San Andreas’s future. Leadership that is unwavering in the face of criticism, steadfast when confronted with adversity, and committed to building a better state.

3. Limited Government
   We advocate a government that promotes policies to unlock individual potential and unleash economic growth. A government that does not try to be all things to all people. A limited government is less expensive, it cuts down on waste, fraud and inefficiency, it values individual and economic freedom; a limited government means less intrusion into people’s lives, the more freedom from government regulation, the more choices citizens can make on an individual and financial level – it creates an environment of independence and individualism. It also means more freedom in the market, allowing businesses to thrive and create a competitive and innovative atmosphere.

4. Honest Compassion
   A society assisting those in need rather than a government trying to solve every problem by just throwing more money at it, money that could have been re-invested into creating more jobs – this is the kind we seek and advocate for. People can act and live according to their own way of thinking and not by government mandate and help one another in a free environment.

5. Quality Education
   An enlightened educational system that prepares children for tomorrow’s workplace. Education is the gateway to opportunity. We believe quality education enables people to develop all of their attributes and skills to achieve their potential as human beings and members of society. We contend that the government and other public authorities should ensure that a quality education service is available freely to all citizens from early childhood into adulthood, it provides the foundation for equity in society and not only enlightens but also empowers citizens and enables them to contribute to the maximum extent possible to the social and economic development in the city/state.

6. Personal Responsibility
   Individuals taking personal responsibility for their own actions and a criminal justice system based on this idea. With freedom comes responsibility.

7. Freedom
   We believe in a freedom that is God given, affirmed by our Founding Fathers, articulated in the Declaration of Independence, and protected by the Constitution.

8. Cultivation of Communities and the Pillar of Protection
   The Conservative Party intends on creating designated areas in which community policing will take place. These geographical areas will be designated in order to diminish, mitigate and ideally eradicate serious criminal offenses.

9. Rugged Individualism
   We believe in the entrepreneurial spirit of the individual that continues to solidify Los Santos as a financial hub and boost the state as an economic power.

10. Flexible Justice System
    The Conservative Party focuses heavily on creating a flexible and dynamic justice system which uses a combination of rehabilitative and punitive justice depending on the crimes committed. We understand that every individual is unique, ergo the state laws should reflect that on the basis of our current and future legislative bodies.
    Our plans on establishing a close connection to the judicial body of the State in
    order to create, amend and nullify law(s) aim to be a priority.

 

 

 

• Decrease regulations for obtaining personal firearms

  • We plan to decrease or outright remove the requirements for obtaining firearms. We believe it is in every man's right to own and carry a firearm without having to worry about bureaucracy or fees.

  • While we support and cherish our law enforcement agencies we also stand guardians at the gate for the individual’s capacity to exercise self-defense. When you need the police within seconds they are usually minutes away.
    We must liberalize and suspend the ban on semi-automatic rifles for law-abiding citizens. 
     

• Encouragement of traditional families

  • We plan to promote the growth of families by supporting families with more than 1 child with monetary aid and tax cuts. Population growth is one of the essential measures for a better economy and a better future.

  • Families interested in obtaining housing should be granted a tax deductible to off-set a potential mortgage. 
     

• Cooperation with local and national law enforcement

  • We aim to have strong cooperation between the government and law enforcement agencies to ensure the safety of our citizens. No one shall fear the streets of Los Santos.

  • Delegate unique power(s) to the state law enforcement agencies to battle the ongoing gang wars, such as expanding the mandate given to the Los Santos Police Department and Los Santos Sheriff’s Department. 
     

• The CP Tax Deductible System 

  • This system will focus on giving back every citizen’s purchasing power. The Conservative Party understands the importance of economic freedom and that you cannot tax yourself into prosperity. The equivalent of high taxes is a snake trying to eat itself in order to nourish itself. 
     

• Campaign to save the intellectual discourse and neutralizing economic illiteracy 

  • The Conservative Party is committed to teach the public about economic theory in order to curb and eventually eradicate political ideologies filled with incongruent economic illiteracy such as Marxism, Communism, Stalinism, and all forms of Socialism. We believe the political discourse in the state of San Andreas has experienced a period of decadence where the intellectual level has continually been diminished, chipped away and replaced by pathos-based arguments rather than building and legislating based on logos, reason and empirical data. We, Conservatives, strive and pride itself in utilizing the ethos of Edmund Burke, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, John Locke, Jean-Baptiste Say, Thomas Robert Malthus, Milton Friedman and many other great thinkers.
     

• The Solemn Oath to protect Essentialism, Normalcy, Reason and our Children.

  • In the U.S. the past 10 years have we seen a dangerous trend wherein social deviants have been reinforced in their indisposition rather than treating and curing them. The Conservative Party believes this is a slippery slope which will eventually lead to further degeneracy. Would you also tell a Schizophrenic that they should continue to engage in a talk with their voices and hallucinations?
     

  • We will remain steadfast in protecting our children and will fight with nails, claws and teeth to ensure the safety of children so they do not fall into the hands of social deviants. Children are not tools and should always be part of a traditional nuclear family.
     

  • The Conservatives intend to create pressure and if elected, seek to combat these dangerous predators currently inhabiting our legislative bodies which perceive our children as mere objects which need to be sacrificed for the sake of social deviants, so they can feel a sense of normalcy.
     

• Safeguarding the phillia of the State and Nation

  • A primary objective of the Conservative Party is to ensure our state remains homogeneous, only a historical illiterate would advocate for something as dangerous as pluralism since not a single country exists today, where the indigenous people survived pluralism.
     

  • As Aristotle said, democracy and a free nation is only possible within homogeneous ethnic groups, while despots have always reigned over highly fragmented societies. A pluralist society is thus necessarily an impediment to democracy and against the idea of a free-thinking society and individual freedom, due to the fact that it lacks the concept of philia; this profound flesh-and-blood fraternity of citizens. Tyrants and despots divide and rule, they want the nations of the West the U.S., and our State divided by ethnic rivalries. The indispensable condition for ensuring a people’s sovereignty accordingly resides in its unity. Ethnic chaos prevents all philia from developing. To recite the definition of the word nation as derived from the Latin word nacioun.
     



 

 

 

Edited December 15, 2019 by Machiavelli
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Edited January 5, 2020 by The Conservative Party
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[Midsummer Night's Dream]

On 12/13/2019 at 11:54 AM, Machiavelli said:

 

 

1. Limited Government
   We advocate a government that promotes policies to unlock individual potential and unleash economic growth. A government that does not try to be all things to all people. A limited government is less expensive, it cuts down on waste, fraud and inefficiency, it values individual and economic freedom; a limited government means less intrusion into people’s lives, the more freedom from government regulation, the more choices citizens can make on an individual and financial level – it creates an environment of independence and individualism. It also means more freedom in the market, allowing businesses to thrive and create a competitive and innovative atmosphere.

 

 

• Safeguarding the phillia of the State and Nation

  • A primary objective of the Conservative Party is to ensure our state remains homogeneous, only a historical illiterate would advocate for something as dangerous as pluralism since not a single country exists today, where the indigenous people survived pluralism.
      

  • As Aristotle said, democracy and a free nation is only possible within homogeneous ethnic groups, while despots have always reigned over highly fragmented societies. A pluralist society is thus necessarily an impediment to democracy and against the idea of a free-thinking society and individual freedom, due to the fact that it lacks the concept of philia; this profound flesh-and-blood fraternity of citizens. Tyrants and despots divide and rule, they want the nations of the West the U.S., and our State divided by ethnic rivalries. The indispensable condition for ensuring a people’s sovereignty accordingly resides in its unity. Ethnic chaos prevents all philia from developing. To recite the definition of the word nation as derived from the Latin word nacioun.

 

1. I would be cautious about invoking conquest by colonizers acting for colonial powers — amounting to displacement and ethnic cleansing by today’s standards — as examples against pluralism. The plight of indigenous peoples was not the product of attempts at achieving pluralism; it was the product of and driven by conquest from the beginning. The danger you create is that, by likening current attempts to develop pluralistic societies to past colonial (mis)administration and conquest, you are insinuating that modern-day attempts at pluralism are driven by conquest. That is, of course, not true.

 

That is not to say that insidious desires for conquest no longer exist anywhere. Rather, it is only to say that modern-day migration is not always accompanied by an ulterior motive to conquer and replace. The tempting and lazy thinking that conquest is at the root of the human desire to find a new home is dangerous and what contributes to division. It also reflects a misunderstanding of migration of mammoth proportions, tragicomically  ignoring, among other things, evolutionary reasons for moving to resettle. There could many factors driving that desire to resettle: curiosity, exploration, survival (that is to say, by taking advantage of better quality of life and opportunities to achieve; or fulfil the simple need for security and stability), and, of course, exploitation — nearly all of these are benign reasons having nothing to do with the violent subjugation and conquest of bygone eras. 

 

2. You are misrepresenting Aristotle’s work in Nicomachean Ethics. He said no such thing about “homogenous ethnic groups” — his discussion of philia had little, if anything, to do with ethnic homogeneity. To make this connection is to oversimplify and put Ingredients in Aristotle’s recipe which he hadn’t originally. Philia was a broader discussion describing friendship, altruism, or simply two people working in unison. He

did not go onto say that ethnicity was the common dominator and great enabler of those things; that stretch you have made is entirely alien to his concept of cooperation, which, ironically, aligns more with coexistence in pluralistic societies! This misuse of an important work on Aristotle’s Ethics, especially to justify something so regressive and shallow, is disturbing. By all means, invoke Burkean conservatism, Smithian economics or even Hayek and all the Hayek followers at University of Chicago (and the so-called “Chicago Boys,” disciples of Hayek’s disciple), such as Friedman, to argue economic positions, but misrepresenting well-known works is bound to upset your efforts and detract from your overall credibility. 

 

 

About limited government:

 

1. This position on limited government shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the modern man. He is too inexpert, too preoccupied, (and, frankly, often too uninterested) to make many of the decisions which government makes on his behalf through comprehensive regulation. Regulations are not imposed arbitrarily. The government imposes them, typically, after extensive consultation with qualified experts and relevant stakeholders, such as those who have been wronged owing to the absence of regulation. 
 

The market — and its supposed “invisible hand” (Smithian economic mythical thinking) — suffers from some of the same ailments; particularly being too inexpert. In some contexts, private enterprise would have an incentive to self-regulate (e.g. by providing workers with protective equipment on the employer’s own accord, in the absence of regulation making it mandatory, they ensure maintaining optimal productivity by first and also ensuring safety). But in other contexts, the incentive to do the minimum — which is, sometimes, insufficient to reduce or prevent harm — is greater. Sometimes, the benefits of doing nothing outweigh the cost of doing even the minimum. The problem is that, by and large, the overwhelming goal of private enterprise with which it is always concerned is the maximization of profit; they will self-regulate insofar as self-regulation enables them to follow this mantra. By contrast, it is the government that is concerned with the well-being and best interests of everyone — and it is not the often-vilified bureaucrats in government who decide what those interests are; that responsibility falls on elected or quasi-elected policymakers who 1. can be held to account, either directly (elected) or indirectly (quasi), and 2. rely on technocrats and the qualified expert who have the time and expertise to get things right.

 

 

(Also keep in mind that regulation standardizes; that, without regulation, “doing the minimum” can mean different things to different enterprises. You’d have a morass of trial-and-error leaving horrific accidents, destruction and/or disfigurements in the wake of each trial run. I would not want to live in a such world!)

Edited December 18, 2019 by Midsummer Night's Dream

[Eriks]

Ey take your dialectics and stick em up your box.

 

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Edited December 24, 2019 by Justitiae

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