By Bruce Walker

Conservatives , the overwhelming
majority of Americans, are angry with the Republican Party leadership and
how politics has been  played since Ronald Reagan left office.
  Often Republican nominees have seemed to copy Bill Clinton’s
“triangulation” or strategically placing themselves as the arbitrators between
conservatives and leftists.   McCain luxuriated in fawning media
coverage of his “independence” from conservatives.  George H. Bush, as
soon as the Gipper was gone, promised to move us to a “Kinder, Gentler” –
moderate – America.   Specter and Jeffords switched parties at
critical times.  Who trusts Republican leaders?  Not serious
conservatives, who have been burned so often.

The question, though, is what
to do.  Many conservatives seemed to have the attitude that without a
revolution now, we are doomed.  That assumes that we must transform
America in the next couple of years and that we will have the opportunity to do
that.  The present sorry state of our country did not begin with Obama or
Clinton or even LBJ.  The cure for the plague of Leftism will come in
steps.  Conservatives who want every good reform implemented now will
become sad, demoralized, and bitter.  There is no need for that.  We
must, instead, become Fabian Conservatives.  The left moved the Land of
the Free and the Home of the Brave into the Land of the Taxed and the Home of
the Slave by adopting Fabian Socialism.  There is a reason today why Obama
is not pushing for an absolute revolution, like Lenin or Hitler sought: 
Obama practices Fabian Socialism.  He works to erode our liberties step by
step.  He tries to create constituencies who may not be socialist
themselves, but who will become addicted to some program in the socialist
agenda.  This is what conservatives should do:  we should give
clusters of Americans a new vested interest in those three pillars of
conservatism:  federalism with robust states’ rights, small and limited
government at all levels, and the influence of Judeo-Christian moral values in
l our institutions. 

Fabian Conservatism means
always moving to the right when we can and never supporting the left, but it
also means that the transformation of America will come in incremental
steps.  Fabian Conservatism means sometimes finding strange bedfellows
(making common cause with leftists who have a particular ax to grind.) 
Here is an example of that:  Vermonters have formed a secessionist
ticket of state government candidates.  These folks want to withdraw
from America because our nation is not Marxist enough.  Conservatives
ought to believe strongly in states’ rights.  So we should agree with
these radical Vermonters on this principle:  the citizens of states,
rather than the majority of Americans, ought to have the right to decide how
the state is governed.  States’ Rights, in fact, is an ideal agenda for
conservatives selectively pulling leftists into ad hoc support for our
goals.  Socialist Vermonters and conservative Utahans both have an
interest in having their own citizens exercise primary policy power in their
states.

Conservatives should also push
hard for federal legislation with outlaws gerrymandering
in congressional and in state legislative districts.  We should do this
even though redistricting after the 2010 elections may slightly favor
Republicans.  Why?  Gerrymandered districts have historically not
only been used to keep artificial Democrat majorities in the House, but also to
protect nearly all congressman – Democrat or Republican – from losing
reelection.  Gerrymandered districts are part of the Incumbency Protection
Plan of Washington.   States can stop gerrymandering but most have
not.  What not push for an end at the federal level?

Conservatives might also want
to consider expanding the allowable activities and the number of nonprofit
organizations.  Why?  Well, a lot of leftist support comes from
foundations and some churches and synagogues support the left as well, but all
the money which those institutions spend is given voluntarily and spent
independently.  Conservative religious congregations and the active
conservative think tanks provide an immense amount of support for
conservatism.  In additional to political and rhetorical support, if faith
based social programs can supplant government social programs, then the need
for government programs recedes (as well as the constituency for supporting
these programs.)

Why not push, now, for a
restoration of the federal income tax deduction for medical expenses? 
This was effectively removed for millions of Americans when the threshold of
expenses before deductions were allowed was raised to amounts above 7.5% of
Adjusted Gross Income in the Tax Reform Act of 1986.  Allowing all medical
expenses, including insurance, to be tax deductable would allow ordinary
Americans to be able to select and to buy their own medical services with no
government involvement.   Many millions of Americans would
immediately and significantly benefit from this change, which would have the
federal government subsidize through tax deductions privately chosen medical
expenses.  Hospitals, drug companies, doctors, and many other providers
would like this – there is no deduction unless medical costs are paid – and
once put back in the tax code, it would be hard to take out.

These and other proposals need
to create an automatic constituency which will continue to support the reform
in the future.  If we had now strong federal safeguards of states’ rights,
fair legislative district boundaries, a flowering of faith based solutions to
social problems, and a restoration of the medical tax deduction, each reform
would begin an institutional reformation of America in the direction of limited
and local government and private choice in medical care – not revolutionary
changes but, rather, evolutionary changes.   We, the overwhelming
majority, can reclaim America, but not in one great battle or bloody
revolution.  What we want, instead, is to be a powerful current of water,
always moving America to the right, making some changes regularly and never
permitting our changes to be lost.  We must become Fabian Conservatives.

                   © 2010 Bruce Walker — All Rights Reserved

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Bruce Walker is the author of
two books:  Sinisterism: Secular Religion of the Lie and The
Swastika against the Cross: The Nazi War on Christianity.

http://outskirtspress.com/swastika_against_the_cross 

 http://outskirtspress.com/Sinisterism