I believe the RedState community should support monetary reform.  While I’m not a true RedStater.  I’ve watched this community for some time.  I know that this community believes in individual freedom and liberty.  With this in mind.  There are two primary reasons to support monetary reform.  Support monetary reform because sound money is required to provide financial security for the majority of the people.  Sound money provides the best chance for the largest number of Americans to succeed.  Secondly, support monetary reform because having sound money that cannot be easily manipulated by a few is essential to economic freedom.  The first reason can be debated.  The second, in my mind, is fact.

So, we may argue about central banking and monetary manipulation from a purely financial sense.  However when it comes to freedom, liberty and the right of all Americans to make their own choices.  Our current monetary system is severely lacking.  Our monetary system is designed so that a few can make decisions for the many.  Take our current economic situation for example.  Most businesses and individuals are saving more and spending less.  The bankers and bureaucrats think most people are wrong to do this.  So they manipulate monetary policy to change this behavior.  If you won’t spend or invest your money, they will.  This is a source of tremendous power.  They don’t have to tell you where to work or how to live.  They don’t don’t have to engage in direct, open taxation.  They just take what they want.  When they want.

The idea that so few can control and make decisions for so many is an aversion to the principles of this country.  This is why we don’t support the idea that government should make decisions about our kids or our health care.  It is why we believe in less taxes and free trade.  Only individuals can make decisions on what is best for them and their family.  Yet for decades our money has been open to manipulation by the political and banking elite.  How can Americans be free economically if the very money they use can be so easily manipulated by the government.

Time and time again conservatives argue that we must not cede control over our personal lives to the government or anyone else for that matter.  Yet time and time again one of the greatest controls by government over the people is ignored.  If you believe, as I believe, that individuals and only individuals can make economic, moral and personal decisions for themselves.  Well you need to support monetary reform.  Monetary reform returns power to the people.  It allows people to make their own decisions.  Free from the manipulation of the few, of the elite.  If we believe in freedom.  If we believe in individual liberty.  Then our monetary policy must reflect these values.

With our economy in the toilet.  Many Americans facing unemployment or foreclosure on their home.  Republicans are pushing tax cuts again.  Letting people keep more of their own money certainly would help taxpayers during this troublesome time.  Still, no one is talking about cutting spending.  The last thing the American people need is more debt.  Our foreign policy is very expensive.  Many Americans are calling for more spending here at home.  Trillions and trillions of dollars have been spent overseas.  So why not debate the merits of our foreign policy? Why not trim our extravagant foreign policy spending?

If you followed the presidential election you would think that Democrats and Republicans had real differences in foreign policy.  Yet Decades of foreign policy has been essentially the same no matter who is in the White House or Congress.  Sure you can debate subtleties, but the price tag and invasiveness our policy is essentially the same.  From the taxpayers position it is a burden.  Trillions and Trillions spent on foreign projects.  We can debate the worth of this policy from here to eternity, but the burden on the taxpayer is not in question.

Conservatives supposedly believe in personal freedom.  Allowing citizens to make decisions for themselves.  Let them spend their money as they see fit.  Yet when it comes to foreign policy modern day conservatives are very statist.  This economic crisis simply underscores the need to review our foreign policy.  It is not about being isolationist or being defeatist.  It is about personal freedom.  It is about lower taxes and less debt for the American taxpayer.  Imagine allowing Americans to keep more of their money, balancing the budget and not cutting the domestic spending that many Americans count on.  It can be done if we just had the courage to review our foreign policy.

It has been a brutal few years for the Republican party.  They’ve lost control of both the legislative and executive branches of government.  Many blame the Republican party for the wars and our economy.  We all know the score.  So why do Republicans keep losing?  What can be done to give the Republican party a chance in the future?

I believe the primary reason that the Republican party keeps losing elections is simple.  Not enough solutions, too much rhetoric.  Republicans focus too much on their opponent and not enough on their solutions.  This leads to those outside the party to view the Republican platform as maintaining the status quo.  Those that are currently satisfied with their station respond to this.  Most in America want to improve their current condition.  So for them this in unacceptable.

I firmly believe that Americans will respond to any solution that is reasoned and aimed at helping them be the best they can be.  This is why the Democrats have been gaining ground.  In between the Bush bashing and shots at Republicans in Congress.  Democrats do offer solutions.  For Republicans to gain momentum they need to start promoting conservative solutions to problems.  They need to understand that not every American is knowledgeable on conservative government.  Take a reasoned and less combative approach to explaining conservative solutions.  Conservative ideas for government are simple and easy for the public to understand.  They are based on the very principles of our government.  So a merit based debate, as opposed to a rhetoric based debate, plays to our strength.

So we have a great philosophy.  Conservative ideology provides fertile ground for real and productive solutions for the American people.  The last piece of the puzzle is the message.  We must convey these ideas to the American people is a responsible way.  Too much time is spent on useless rhetoric that turns those not already in party away.  For example supporters of John McCain, and even John himself, spent way too much time talking about Obama.  I myself, an outsider to the Republican party, had difficulty searching for more information on John McCain.  All I found was comments about Obama.  I don’t think the American people understood what McCain would do as President.  How could they?  The dominant message from the Republican party was he is better than Obama or simply that Obama was wrong for America.  Obama on the other hand was promoting his outrageous and outlandish policies.  In the absence of anything credible.  Americans flocked to the only candidate with solutions.

So if the Republican party is to have any future.  They need to stop arguing and start working on a better America.  Republicans should spend the majority of their time talking to the American people, not at the American people.  Educate the American people on why their solutions work, not simply that they are better than the Democrats.  Realize that many in America aren’t familiar with conservative government.  After all it has been decades since we’ve had true conservative government.