Oregon is one of the states that mails a Voter Pamphlet to each registered voter. The Oregon pamphlet includes a page for each party to explain its principles. However, this year, according to this story, the Democratic and Republican Parties failed to submit such a statement, so they are omitted from this part of the Pamphlet. Each of the five qualified minor parties did submit a statement.
Here is a link to the Table of Contents for the Voters Pamphlet. Click on the link for any particular party listed to read that party’s statement.
Well, that’s not surprising. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have any principles.
The Seven Principles of the Constitution Party are:
Life: For all human beings, from conception to natural death;
Liberty: Freedom of conscience and actions for the self-governed individual;
Family: One husband and one wife with their children as divinely instituted;
Property: Each individual’s right to own and steward personal property without government burden;
Constitution: and Bill of Rights interpreted according to the actual intent of the Founding Fathers;
States’ Rights: Everything not specifically delegated by the Constitution to the federal government, nor prohibited by the Constitution to the states, is reserved to the states or to the people;
American Sovereignty: American government committed to the protection of the borders, trade, and common defense of Americans, and not entangled in foreign alliances.
In addition to the fact that the R’s and D’s both whiffed, it’s also interesting that Oregon gives each party enough space to do something useful. California gives each party 200 or 250 words of plain text.
Off topic: compare and contrast the Progressive Party and Pacific Green Party statements. Aside from the layout and typography, what’s the difference?
# 3 Birds of a feather flock together — and repeat their ravings.
This is the inevitable result of first-past-the post voting combined with highly sophisticated polling techniques and 24/7 mass electronic media. Don’t say anything beyond the absolutely necessary(Joe Biden gets a pass)it will only cost you votes somewhere.
Hard to believe that the D’s and R’s once had ferocious platform fights. The platform today is completely meaningless-apparently except when the Israel Lobby makes an angry phone call.