Wisconsin college republican party platform

It is no news to anyone who is the least bit aware that our popular culture has a very particular bent, a bent which seems to get stronger with each passing year. Not only does this subversion of the culture that made America and Wisconsin great dominate popular discourse, so much so that it is taken for granted to be the default, but it has also crept into mainstream political discourse. Indeed, those who call themselves conservatives or Republicans have completely ceded ground on social issue after social issue to the point where many see Republicans simply as Democrats with a ten-year time lag when it comes to all matters social, and, quite frankly, they are well justified in judging the situation as such. The WICRs believes that it is high time to cease taking a purely defensive and reactionary approach towards cultural issues and start taking on an offensive and proactive approach towards taking back control of our culture.

Our adversaries still see themselves as the avant garde, yet are clearly the establishment when it comes to setting the popular culture narrative. They are largely able to have their cake and eat it too because we do not present a comprehensive and viable alternative popular culture that younger generations can identify with and find mental succor from. This is a void that WICRs believes young conservative leaders can fill through presenting conservatism as the rightful new avant garde that all the “cool kids” are a part of. However, this repackaging of true conservative values should not be done at the expense of watering down the message, as far too many pundits that call themselves conservative have done and continue to do so. There are as many ways to repackage the true conservative values that Republicans hold dear as our imaginations can come up with. It is only through embracing this creativity for a cause as noble as this that young Republicans across Wisconsin can potentially not just stop ceding more ground to the subversives that work against Wisconsin, but also retake ground back from them till our values are rightfully that of the mainstream.

The battle to retake popular culture will be one that has multiple fronts. This is simply due to the totality in which the subversives on the other side control popular culture. From mainstream online content on youtube to television shows to podcasts to popular books both fiction and non-fiction, the subversives have their tentacles in every conceivable facet of popular culture.

Therefore, in order to take the reins back from them, young Republicans, especially those who are currently attending a university in Wisconsin, must identify the area of popular culture that they have a talent for and pour their creative energies into said area in order to provide a viable alternative to the mainstream monoliths that our adversaries present to the public. This could entail anything from starting a video channel producing short clips with important and digestible bits of information pushing back on the mainstream narrative, starting a podcast that addresses issues at length, writing articles for friendly publications or starting one yourself, writing books that provide an alternate vision for the future than the one our adversaries wish to ingrain into the public, as well as anything and everything else in between and under the sun. The ultimate goal we should have in mind is to create viable alternatives to every conceivable mainstream cultural vehicle in the same way alternate social media platforms give an uncensored voice to those who speak truth to power.

In the fallen culture of today, the public, and especially younger generations, look up to the cultural and public figures that popular culture tells them they should, with the result that those who our youth look up to tend to be morally questionable to say the very least. From scandalous celebrities living in sin to politicians that have a talent for tugging at people’s heartstrings to convince them to go along with the worst atrocities imaginable, the time has indeed come to present younger generations with new cultural and public figures to look up to and emulate.

But in order for this to become a reality young Republicans, and especially those who currently attend university, must again come up with a viable alternative in order to convince the public to alter their lifestyle choices and perceptions. This means that young conservatives and Republicans must strive to become role models to those younger than them. This can be done by becoming prominent members of their local church, working as a manager at a local business, volunteering to coach your local Little League games, and so much more. With how little social capital there is left in our communities, there is an ocean of need for those who wish to make a true difference to step up and fill the nearly countless gaps of community leadership that need to be filled.

In order to serve as good examples for members of the community to follow, we ourselves must become the best versions of ourselves we possibly can. This means everything from dressing properly and smartly when we walk out our front door, refraining from using foul language whether in public or in private, conducting ourselves with poise and class during a confrontation, and much much more.

Whether we like it or not, we serve as representatives of our political views simply because that is the current framework in which our adversaries have constructed for us as controllers of the culture. While there is room for discussion as to the fairness of such a framework should we become the mainstream, we are for the time being bound by this parameter and must strive to make the best of it by being the best example of how a person who shares our values should live. By doing this, those within our social orbit will inevitably start associating our exemplary character with the views we hold, the result being a positive feedback loop that can potentially propel our values into the mainstream simply because we presented ourselves as productive, optical, and conscientious members of the community.

Historically, the Northeast Corridor has formed the brain of America, with its concentration of Ivy League educational institutions and high value-added knowledge economy. Wisconsin, and the Great Lakes region generally, have in turn formed America’s beating heart in almost every sense of the metaphor. From being the historical epicenter of America’s industrial might to being one of her breadbaskets, Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region have been hit by far the hardest by unchecked globalization, spearheaded by unscrupulous politicians, if we are being honest with ourselves, on both sides of the aisle. From stagnating real wages to the rise of part-time employment, many feel that the economy has morphed into a soulless monstrosity that we serve instead of the other way around. The WICRs believe that it is high time that the local and national economy be reoriented to serve the hardworking people of Wisconsin and America rather than the other way around.

For decades, globalist politicians of all stripes and from both major parties have touted the alleged benefits of free trade and demonized the concept of trade protectionism as being unproductive and detrimental to our competitiveness. This ethos that Republicans and conservatives are expected to accept as gospel without challenge flies in the face of a laundry list of examples, especially some of the biggest economic success stories of the last three generations and in fact our very own during the nineteenth century. From Japan to Malaysia to Korea to China, those who selfishly protected their own industry were able to nurture them into many of the behemoths we know today. Had Japan pursued a free trade regime during the 1950s, we would not know of Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Sony, Panasonic, and the rest of Japan’s industrial titans because they simply were not in a position to compete with seasoned global players such as General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. But after these infant local industries were given a few decades of breathing room, they were able to run circles around their competitors whilst our industry was allowed to be sacrificed on the altar of globalization.

In fact, America’s own industrial might, largely centered in Wisconsin and the other Great Lakes states, was nurtured by the protectionist policies the Founding Fathers wisely introduced during the Republic’s infancy so as to substantively maintain our sovereignty by being able to produce the goods our people need in-house. After generations of disastrous free trade policies with the rest of the world, America needs to once again tend to the needs of her own economy, her own industry, and the dignified, productive, high-paying jobs they generate instead of lifting the rest of the world up at her own people’s expense.

In any First World society, the cost of housing, healthcare, education, and transportation form the vast bulk of household expenses. Therefore, should the cost of one or more of these items spiral out of control, middle class families will inevitably suffer. Indeed, middle class families in Wisconsin, America, and the West more generally have been suffering greatly as of late, as evidenced by the substantial gap between the number of children women wish to have compared to the number of children they actually end up having. In fact, the Institute for Family Studies found that American women on average wish to have nearly one more child than they are actually having (2.7 vs 1.8 children). While the size of one’s quiver is something that must ultimately be a decision made between a husband, wife, and God, there is evidently abundant room for prudent and bold policy to encourage above replacement fertility in order to safeguard the American estate for generations to come.

In addition to what was discussed above, it is high time that Wisconsin and America disabuse ourselves of any preset mental frameworks given to us by the powers that be, especially if those frameworks are detrimental in our efforts to craft a policy mix that will best serve the people of Wisconsin and America.

For the vast majority of Wisconsin’s families, their primary residence is the single largest purchase they will ever make in this world. For the vast majority of Wisconsin’s families, homeownership is also the primary engine of wealth creation, something which can translate into longlasting intergenerational wealth if done right and/or supported by the right policies. As such, it is imperative that any housing policy being considered must be one that has the effect of increasing the supply of housing in desirable parts of the state in order to put massive downward pressure on housing prices that, quite frankly, are pricing thousands upon thousands of young Wisconsinite families out of the housing market.

Whether it comes in the form of erecting barriers against large investment firms from buying single-family properties with the intent of creating a renter society, overhauling the regulatory system to bring down the cost of building houses without compromising safety and quality, completely reexamining zoning laws and the petty tyranny that is local and state ordinances in order to allow for infilling in our cities, or perhaps even studying housing policies in countries like Singapore and others around the world that boast homeownership rates of ninety percent or greater (sixty-seven percent in Wisconsin and sixty-six percent in America) and see what principles could be applied to Wisconsin’s and America’s situation, Republicans must stand for something that will address these bread and butter issues in order to gain the trust and support of Wisconsin’s families and communities.

With nearly a fifth of our entire economy and therefore national income devoted to the healthcare sector, it is no wonder why fulfilling basic healthcare needs is becoming increasingly out of reach for many families throughout Wisconsin and America. Even more embarrassingly, this compares abysmally with other First World countries. Even Japan, with twice the percentage of citizens over sixty-five, spends a third less as a share of their national income than we do on healthcare and sees their people live almost a decade longer than Americans are expected to. While it will always be imperative to avoid the drawbacks of other healthcare systems in the First World, namely their long waiting lines stemming from a supply and demand mismatch, what is equally true and dire is the unsustainability of Wisconsin’s and America’s healthcare system as it is currently run.

Anyone who remembers taking a basic microeconomic class will know that people respond to incentives and think on the margin. Knowing this, one would be out of one’s mind to design a healthcare system the way we have done so, where nearly nine out of ten dollars spent is through fixed payments of one kind or another, whether that be health insurance premiums or medicare taxes and premiums taken out of one’s social security benefits. With so little of the healthcare system being financed directly from people’s pockets, the inevitable incentive is not to shop around for the best bang for one’s buck, but to get as much as they can from the healthcare system as possible since most of what they pay is not determined by the amount of products and services they use. If you went to a car showroom and the sticker prices had one less zero at the end, wouldn’t you pick the Audi over the Corolla too?

While no single person is to blame for wanting to get their money’s worth, it is also true that the entire incentive structure of America’s healthcare system needs to be redesigned from the ground up in a way that makes sense and serves the millions of households living in Wisconsin.

The cost of education, regardless of grade, has increased beyond any thresholds of sanity in Wisconsin and America. Put bluntly, we are spending more and more to educate our youth but getting kids that are dumber than ever. Indeed, not only do we lag behind our Western peers and our allies in First World Asia, but our geopolitical rivals such as China, still very much a developing country in the aggregate, are swimming circles around us. In fact, there are some years where our PISA test scores are bested by the likes of Vietnam, a country barely a twentieth as wealthy as we are. These dire statistics do not bode well for any country looking to hold its own on the world stage against nations bent on taking our lunch. We need to educate our next generation far better and for far less.

Higher education is where the most attention has been paid, namely due to calls from many segments of the political spectrum to repudiate all or a large part of outstanding student loan debt. While both sides of debate are able to make cases that resonate with millions throughout the country and hundreds of thousands in Wisconsin, not many place much if any emphasis on addressing the root cause of the student debt crisis, and that is the spiraling cost of tertiary education. When your faucet is leaking and flooding the kitchen floor, you first fix the leak BEFORE deciding whether to dry the floor using mops or water pumps . One of the main causes of university education costs rising far faster than the general cost of living is once again a matter of fundamental incentives.

The two main sources of the seemingly bottomless demand for a college degree is economic and cultural. On the economic front, federal loan guarantees have incentivized banks to offer unsecured student loans to teenagers to the tune of tens and quite often hundreds of thousands of dollars knowing that failure of the student to repay will not negatively affect their income stream. On the cultural front, there has been an unhealthy emphasis on obtaining the credential of a university degree when, quite frankly, most people should simply start accumulating skills by entering the workforce immediately after highschool if not before. By reducing unnecessary demand for tertiary education and requiring any loans taken out to that end play by the same rules as any other type of loan, universities, whose administrators have been the biggest beneficiaries of the higher education bubble, will be forced to slash tuitions to reasonable levels and get rid of the administrative and infrastructural redundancies plaguing basically every university in Wisconsin and the country, and universities will once again become institutions dedicated to higher learning instead of the hive of mindless entertainment and decadence most have unfortunately become.

But higher education is not the only culprit of excess by any stretch of the imagination. The K-12 public school system, in addition to continuously straying towards politically correct indoctrination and away from genuine education, is also plagued by a terribly bloated bureaucracy. Indeed, as the public school population has stagnated and the number of teachers trended up ever so slightly, the number of administrators in these same schools has skyrocketed, which is a substantial component of the increase in the cost of educating a public school student in recent decades. In fact, just like healthcare, America is an embarrassing outlier in the First World, spending an astronomical sixteen thousand dollars per public school pupil yet producing some of the worst educational outcomes of any First World country.

While there is certainly something that can be said about encouraging strong healthy families that generally raise strong healthy children, the education system must do its part to impart information and skills to supplement good child rearing at home. Public education, since we already have it, must serve a productive purpose for our communities, our state, and our country. It needs to equip our future generations with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in the environment they will be facing when they graduate. There is no place in taxpayer funded educational institutions to brainwash young impressionable minds about obscure subversives simply because of their supposedly subversive lifestyle, something that any sane country bars from their classrooms without the need to explain themselves. It is high time Wisconsin and America do the same.

While it is certainly true that house prices as a multiple of average income remains relatively benign in America compared to most other First World countries, much of this advantage disappears when the different costs of transportation are taken into account. In fact, this advantage flips squarely into a disadvantage for those in the bottom two income quintiles in America. The poorest quintile in America spends nearly a third of their income on transportation, in stark contrast to the average poor European national who spends less than a twelfth. Put frankly, the current one-sided transportation system in Wisconsin and America is something that cannot be morally justified.

With the median household spending a whopping one thousand dollars a month just to get from point A to point B, Wisconsin and America deserve viable alternatives to the model that transportation special interests have spent decades lobbying the federal government and producing literal propaganda films to bring about. This inevitably entails providing truly viable transportation alternatives to private automobiles so that people have a real choice between walking, riding their bicycles, taking the bus, riding the train, or taking the car for a drive in order to perform their basic daily and weekly tasks and errands.

Quite frankly, proposing such solutions to alleviate the problems plaguing our cities will undoubtedly win over whole sections of urban society, a segment that has voted reliably for the Democrats for decades. In fact, Democrats rely on the consistency of urban residents in Madison and Milwaukee of all races to vote for them in order to continue neglecting and often undermining the many rural communities in Wisconsin when they have the power to do so. What if we went in and took their electoral lunch from them? Wouldn’t that be a sight to enjoy!

While young Republicans and conservatives can sit around a lounge table and discuss terrific idea after terrific idea, it would amount to approximately naught if it cannot be translated into real action on the ground. For too long, the Republican modus operandi in Wisconsin and indeed most of the country has been to be cordial to our political adversaries, adversaries that quite frankly would not bat an eye if they saw us get physically violated by the extreme and militant elements of their end of the political spectrum. The general tendency of Republicans has been to reign rather than rule whenever they are in power and accomplish little to nothing for their values and constituents and complain and/or grovel when they are out of power. In either scenario, real power, that is the power of the administrative state in Madison, remains in the slimy hands of our unscrupulous and unprincipled adversaries. Moving forward, this simply will not do if we are to see our righteous values prevail and be put into practice. In the world of politics, the zeroth rule, for better or worse, is to win, and win in every sense of the word. Now that we know our ideas and values are indeed morally and objectively better than that of our enemies, it is imperative that we win political battles so that we can see our values put into action for the benefit of the people we serve.

Since anyone living has paid attention to politics, the Republican Party has been the party that says no to most anything being proposed. What tends to happen is that Democrats propose something axiomatically ludicrous, and Republicans justifiably tell them to go kick rocks. As sensible as this stance might be, it unfortunately is not sufficient to win the hearts and minds of many Wisconsinites, especially younger ones.

What young Republicans need to do is to not just reject the policy lunacy of the left, but to also provide a positive alternative to that lunacy. What tends to happen, especially in an environment of liberal media hegemony, is whenever Republicans reject a silly proposal from the left, the biased media will simply paint Republicans as uncaring and out of touch with the common working man, unworthy of his vote. While this is objectively far from the truth, the unfortunate reality for the time being is that these feelings do not care about facts, and that is a medium-term reality that Republicans must come to terms with should they wish to take power and rectify these realities.

For far too long, Republicans have not taken charge of their own political destiny. Rather, they have unfortunately allowed themselves to be shaped by their enemies, constantly reacting to developments and trends propagated by the other side instead of being the trend setters themselves. All this, if Republicans are being honest with themselves, is the result of Republicans as a political group not standing up for themselves and grabbing the bull by the horns. If we are to truly create a Wisconsin that works for the vast majority of Wisconsinites, we can no longer allow the narrative to be set by the other side.

When we become proactive and go on the offensive, we take control of the situation. Just like how individuals are encouraged by life coaches to take control of their surroundings, so too must Republicans if we are to do right by the people we will be serving. This means no longer accepting the moral or intellectual framework of the left. This means taking the initiative to construct a plan for the future of Wisconsin and America instead of reacting to the left’s proposals. This means not compromising on core values and principles that deliver minor short-term victories at the expense of long-term triumphs. Ultimately, this means standing up and saying “No you don’t. This is how things will be done.” The more Republicans, especially young Republicans, do this, the more the left, with its track record of mental and spiritual weakness, will simply shriek in concession the same way the devil retreats when someone rejects his temptations and strengthens their commitment to follow Jesus Christ.

A nation is defined as a group of people with shared linguistic, cultural, and ancestral heritage. A nation-state is defined as a polity that roughly encompasses the geographical boundaries of a particular nation whose state apparatus is operated by members of that particular nation of people in the service of that particular nation of people. Since the Industrial Revolution, the nation-state has been the premiere model of political organization used to serve the interest of the people under its purview. This model has also been adopted by the success stories of the second half of the twentieth century, namely Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and, as much as we wish not to admit it, China. It is precisely because of its success that the subversives who wield the lion’s share of government power in Wisconsin and America wish to dissolve the American nation-state and raise in its place a model for political organization that only serves the powers that be, very often at the people’s expense. From sending untold trillions to faraway lands while thousands of homeless veterans still suffer on our streets daily to allowing tens of millions of immigrants into the country while American Millennials and Zoomers are seeing their American Dream drift further away from their reach with each passing year, it is clear that the American nation-state must be seized from the hands of those who mean its people harm and placed back in the hands of patriots dedicated to serving the interests of their people over their own, the same way a man sacrifices his own well-being and comfort in order to protect and better his family, which is exactly what a nation is supposed to be: one’s large extended family.

Even though it has been decades since freedom fighter and former Congressman Ron Paul made this very accurate assessment of how our nation’s foreign aid budget was being dispensed, this equivalency echoes far truer in recent years than ever before. From sending over a hundred billion dollars cumulatively to the Ukraine to sending tens of billions to the Middle East on both sides of the cultural rift, something so void of logic that it would have earned someone a trip to a mental facility not too long ago, to the still-staggering number of American troops stationed potentially in harm’s way in hundreds of bases from Central Europe to the Korean Peninsula, America has spent fortune after fortune to hold up the global ceiling for the rest of the world, allowing the rest of humanity to take advantage of our unjustified generosity while they take our working class’ lunch by erecting their own trade barriers whilst simultaneously abusing our idiotically unrestrictive trade regime. After three generations of being the policeman of the world, all America and Wisconsin has had to show for it is a ballooning budget deficit that future generations will have to come to terms with and a gutted industrial heartland, which future generations will also have to deal with. In addition to this, the citizens of many of the countries hosting American military bases or are in a significant way ally to America resent what they perceive as American overreach and an affront to their own national sovereignty and in fact have used American geopolitical presence in their countries as justification for committing acts of aggression against Americans, both in America itself and around the world.

Any rational individual who sees the obvious futility of American geopolitical adventurism both from a practical and moral perspective will very quickly conclude that it is high time America take care of itself and its own people with the resources it has at its disposal. Should it truly make sense for America to have a significant economic or geopolitical presence somewhere in the world at some point in the future, it must be done on a case-by-case basis with a clear timeline and set of goals to achieve, rather than an aimless quagmire that costs the American people trillions of dollars and the blood of thousands of the sons and daughters of America.

For starters, any and all lobbying, especially those who are funded by foreign sources, have absolutely no place in America’s and Wisconsin’s political process. In times past, any politician found to be accepting foreign funds of any sort for any reason would be tried for treason and sent to the gallows if found guilty. Moving forward, any Republican leader worth his salt should make a public and official commitment of some sort to eschew any funding that originates from non-American nationals and have their commitment subject to very regular and thorough audits, otherwise any commitment is simply empty words, something politicians do not need additional practice on.

Additionally, any military assistance in the form of American military presence abroad, assuming such an endeavor is something the American people even feel like entertaining, must always be accompanied by a full and itemized bill to the requesting nation for every last penny of expenses incurred by the American military for establishing and maintaining their presence there, as well as a generous mark up for our trouble. We shall see how many countries feel the need to call upon America for protection when they actually have to pay for the privilege.

During the early years of the communist occupation of East Germany, Marxist court jester Bertolt Brecht made a satirical literary piece where he whimsically wondered if the government should dissolve the people and elect a new one, seeing how strongly they dared to oppose the Soviet occupation of their country, something any nation with an iota of self-preservational instinct would do. Indeed, it is expected of any self-respecting people to oppose being oppressed by rulers who do not care to serve the interests of the ruled, to say the least of those who actively and shamelessly seek to subvert them. It is this very situation Wisconsin and America find themselves in at this time, not only with the Biden regime allowing untold millions of illegals from every corner of the Third World into the country, but also the RINOs who are actively pushing for the use of greater quantities of foreign labor in industries that quite frankly need to be automated or pay American workers livable wages.

The previous three years have seen a massive upsurge in illegal crossings into America, most of which are not ordered to turn back and explore legal avenues to enter the country. Indeed, the gross misinterpretation of the fourteenth amendment by Justice Brennan in the 1980s has provided an unconstitutional incentive for people to cross into the country illegally, which is if they are successful at giving birth within the geographical confines of America, their citizen child, accurately called an “anchor baby”, provides the parents who broke the law to enter America a layer of legal protection simply because they now have a citizen child. America and Canada are quite literally the only two First World countries on the planet who have kept this circus of a citizenship policy called jus soli instead of transitioning to jus sanguinis, a system where citizenship is determined by that of one’s parents, and America is the only First World nation that practices jus soli and has a land border with the Third World. The WICRs believes in striking down the unconstitutional overstep of the late Justice Brennan, who was in no place as a member of the judiciary in influencing the establishment of laws, and transition towards the practice of jus sanguinis on ambiguous cases of citizenship determination.

In addition to the deluge of illegal aliens into the country and inevitably Wisconsin (illegal alien is a purely legal term for the easily offended who read this), the flow of uncontrolled numbers of immigrants through legal channels has also strained nearly all of our social systems to the point where the institutions are buckling at the pressure. Since the passage of the Hart-Celler Act in 1965 that removed the sensible immigration quotas that prevailed during the previous four decades and gave America its highest quality stream of immigrants in its history, a dozen or so countries have monopolized the family reunification clause, or chain migration clause as many know it, and have severely decreased the quality of immigrants being brought into the country by emphasizing family ties rather than economic and cultural merit. As a result, even legal immigrants to this country are more likely to be on public assistance even after adjusting for all relevant socioeconomic factors. Moreover, post-1965 immigrants who go on to obtain American citizenship end up voting for the Democrats in overwhelming majorities, and so do their children. Even the most famous and appreciated exception to this, the Cuban Americans of South Florida, are now seeing their voting trends mirror that of other immigrant groups as their American-born children take on the mantle of social justice despite their parents risking it all to escape the very same despotism they are now so fervently supporting. It is the desire of the WICRs to see a revised version of the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 in order to reduce the total number of immigrants this country takes in in order to tighten the labor market to the benefit of American workers as well as to revive the emphasis on cultural compatibility to ensure that American communities maintain their social capital (see Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam).

In Wisconsin specifically, the WICRs strongly demands the implementation of e-verify as soon as humanly possible and calls on all Republican leaders in the state to publicly advocate for this practice, which would ensure that those in the state not in accordance with the country’s laws will face as many challenges to stay here illegally as possible. WICRs also calls for those Republicans who seek to make seeking employment easier for DACA recipients to cease their traitorous efforts and refocus their efforts on patriotic immigration reform. Only with the entirety of the Republican leadership on the same righteous page can the most concerted effort possible be made towards reclaiming this country’s sovereignty and dignity.