Democracy

America's elections are not true contests of ideas but instead reflect the controlled dialectic of globalist politics. Few people believe that voting can affect significant positive change, as demonstrated by persistently low turnout combined with the abysmal public approval ratings of congress. The rare conservative "election integrity" measures that are enacted always concede the argument that it is good for our republic for everyone to vote. Conservatives cannot win on election integrity because they are rhetorically committed to progressive values on elections. Conservatives now must rely on undemocratic gerrymandering to win elections, rather than confronting this problem. Contrary to the arguments of the Left and the mainstream Right, there is ample evidence that election fraud is widespread in the U.S.[1] If our ideas are to win, election fraud must be eliminated, and the idea that everyone should vote must be repudiated.

American nationalism observes that the republic functioned better as it was originally designed. Voting is a sacred right and a privilege for citizens in good standing. Participation should be restricted to voters who have a basic understanding of civics and a vested interest in the proper functioning of the state. It poisons the republic to insist that everyone should vote. Informed by these principles, nationalism supports the restoration of traditional voting laws.

Necessary reforms include the use of only physical, paper, English-language ballots, mandatory in-person voting with medical and foreign service exceptions, restricting voting to property owners and net taxpayers, counting votes in public, outlawing machine or computer vote counting, repealing the Voting Rights Act, and very basic poll testing. Poll tests must include only the most basic knowledge about the political system, and it must not be applied with the intention of disenfranchising any particular group. Nationalism rejects the progressive idea that removing the voting rights of non-taxpayers would cause them harm. To the contrary, nationalism envisions a fairer welfare state that encourages the able-bodied to contribute to society but supports the truly needy well.

The legislative process is broken. There is no meaningful effort from either political party to reduce deficit spending, address insolvent programs, deregulate, rationalize the tax system, invest in beneficial infrastructure, curtail corruption, or otherwise make significant improvement to the nation-state. Some of these problems can be addressed through changes to the public policy process, itself. Such reforms would include requiring the text of legislation to be read aloud before it can be voted on, reforming committee assignment rules, expanding and better enforcing rules against corporate contributions to candidates and parties, restricting political contributions only to specific candidates, outlawing gerrymandering, restoring local control, rescinding the direct election of senators, overturning Gibbons v. Ogden to restrict the interpretation of the commerce clause, and others.

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[1] John Lott, Crime Prevention Research Center, Social Science Research Network, 2020