Being a Republican

Responsibilities and Duties to being a member of the Republican Party

What does it mean to be a Republican? Simply it means being a member of the Republican Party. The next logical question would then be, what does it mean to be a member of the Republican Party?

Being a member of the Republican Party is more than just holding membership in the party. It comes with privileges and responsibilities. Now we tend to call privileges, rights, but I’ll be using the term privileges to mean granted authority. Since you can find a million comments and posts online screaming about rights, I’ll be focusing more on responsibilities that go along with being a member of the Republican Party.

First, I want to take a moment to talk about what it means to be part of a group or association. Like most anything being a member of the party is not free. It is true that there is no monetary cost for membership, there is a sacrifice that will be asked of you when you join. That sacrifice is that you give up part of your unique individual self to the party. This sacrifice is not forced or demanded but is given freely, exercising our God given free will, when we make the choice to become a member of the Republican Party.

This means that you will accept the choices and decisions of the party. You don’t have to like them or agree with them, but you do not get to actively work against them. Once you do that you are in a state of discord and rebellion against the party, and this will only lead to chaos and division. You may have good intentions, or even the best of intention, in working against a decision made by the party, but that is the paved path to Hell.

To be clear I am not saying you need to fall into lock step with everything, the Republican Party does not want or need people who blindly follow. Instead, I am saying you need to accept the will of the party even when it goes against your own. If you want a change, make your case to other party members and put it to a vote. Gain support and make the change, but do not actively work against the party just because your pet candidate or favorite cause did not win.

The Republican Party, like any other group or association, has certain expectations of its members. When these expectations are not met it does not mean you are no longer part of the Republican Party but that you are failing in your duty, and thus being a bad Republican Party member. These expectations have been unclear and unenforced, and I will be attempting to clarify what these expectations are and perhaps make suggestions on how to fairly enforce them on every member of the party, from the state chair down to the PCP’s.

The first responsibility of a good Republican is to understand your party. The best way to do this is to familiarize yourself with the party platform. This is the statewide expression of the party. You do not have to agree with it, but it is expected of you to support it and to work toward achieving the goals outlined within it. If you do not like one or more planks of the platform than work toward achieving a different plank that you support.

Our platform is large enough that there is always going to be something for you to work toward or support. If you want to make changes or add items into the platform the place to do this is in the platform convention. Once the platform is decided, it is your responsibility to support it.

That is the second responsibility of a good Republican Party member, support your party. This means working toward getting the party decided candidates elected, helping out at events, and attending your local county meetings. You know yourself best and can decide how best to utilize your unique talents to best do this. If you are interested in 2A, see about putting together a day at the range or on someone’s property or getting a concealed carry class taught. Then after the fun have a meeting where you discus candidates for local races and how you can support them.

There may be other responsibilities that go along with being a member of the Republican Party but these are the main two, know your party and support your party. You can disagree and in the end you might be right and the party might be wrong, but do not work against the party in an attempt to prove you are right, because the truth might be that you are wrong and the party is right. After all the collective wisdom of the majority of the party is greater than the individual wisdom of a single member.

As far as enforcement goes, I am hesitant to have a system in place that will easily remove members. We are all aware that a concentration of power such as that will inevitably be misused and corrupted. Instead I think the ideas need to be proven. Perhaps we can set up a weekly debate forum where people two people (or more) get on a zoom call or record a conversation / debate about a specific topic within the party. This will allow people to express their ideas and have them challenged in full sunlight so that the other party members can decide for themselves where the truth lies and what the best course of action is.

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