GRAND "NEW' PARTY (GNP)??

What's In A Name?

 

One day, in Seattle's Pioneer Square, I found a rare book; a bound first edition of Bernard DeVoto's

The Year of Decision * 1846*.   The book, published in 1943, transports us back to a time,  about 100 years before I was born.  As an African-American, born and raised within a few miles of Independence, I was fascinated with the intimate details of the early Mormon struggles in that place; of "Joseph the Seer", the Temple Lot, Mexicans in bells, bullwhackers of the Santa Fe Trail:  Independence was the "jumping off place for Santa Fe, Fort Laramie, Winter Quarters on the Missouri, and all points West.  It was the last days for the Whigs, and the beginnings of the GOP, or Grand "Old" Party, i.e., The Republican Party.

 

Today, we're witnessing a suicide, committed  by what is left of the GOP.  History seems to have come full circle.  James K. Polk was President.  A Jacksonian Democrat, and eerily like George W. Bush, Polk won office by promising to annex Texas to the United States.  He invaded Mexico to set the stage for the annexation of Texas.  That action is reported to have split the country, setting the stage for Civil War.  The descendants of Texas, and of that entire region caught up in the rebellion known as the Civil War, are today the proud, lead actors in bringing about the demise of the Republican Party.

 

Founded by anti-slavery activists in 1854, the GOP has taken a political "U-Turn", and has become a radical ultra-right, white-supremacist party; possibly more out of step with the citizenry of today than were the Whigs in the 1840s.  The Whigs "foundered" on the issue of slavery, and the GOP is "foundering" on the issue of the first African-American President.

 

Looking forward, what should be the name of the new party?  We have to have two parties!  Our system of government depends on that structure.  So, what should we name it?  If we pick a name that is attractive enough, perhaps the country will "move on" beyond the GOP, by hastening its demise.  I propose the "GNP" -- the Grand New Party -- one that will seek to serve the voters of this country instead of the monied interests that operate our global economy.  Given the mess the GOP has made of our economy, the GNP has a nice ring to it?  You heard it first here! 

 

What do you think?

 

Stay Vigilant!  Prepare for the funeral/christening ceremonies?? 

 

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