BEFORE YOU VOTE LOCALLY REPUBLICAN PLATFORM 2016
Please read the party ideal We affirm — as did the Declaration of Independence: that all are created equal, endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Our standing in world affairs has declined significantly — our enemies no longer fear us and our friends no longer trust us. the current President of the United States — to impose a social and cultural revolution upon the American people by wrongly redefining sex discrimination to include sexual orientation or other categories.
Please read the party ideal We affirm — as did the Declaration of
Independence: that all are created equal, endowed
by their Creator with inalienable rights of life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness.
Our standing in world affairs has declined
significantly — our enemies no longer fear us and
our friends no longer trust us.
the
current President of the United States — to impose
a social and cultural revolution upon the American
people by wrongly redefining sex discrimination
to include sexual orientation or other categories.
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help secure the future of our Social Security system.<br />
Saving Social Security is more than a challenge. It<br />
is our moral obligation to those who trusted in the<br />
government’s word.<br />
Protecting Internet Freedom<br />
The survival of the internet as we know it<br />
is at risk. Its gravest peril originates in the White<br />
House, the current occupant of which has launched<br />
a campaign, both at home and internationally, to<br />
subjugate it to agents of government. The President<br />
ordered the chair of the supposedly independent<br />
Federal Communications Commission to impose<br />
upon the internet rules devised in the 1930s for the<br />
telephone monopoly. He has unilaterally announced<br />
America’s abandonment of<br />
the international internet by<br />
surrendering U.S. control of<br />
the root zone of web names<br />
and addresses. He threw the<br />
internet to the wolves, and they<br />
— Russia, China, Iran, and others<br />
— are ready to devour it.<br />
We salute the Congressional<br />
Republicans who have<br />
legislatively impeded his plans<br />
to turn over the Information Freedom Highway to<br />
regulators and tyrants. That fight must continue,<br />
for its outcome is in doubt. We will consistently<br />
support internet policies that allow people and<br />
private enterprise to thrive, without providing new<br />
and expanded government powers to tax and<br />
regulate so that the internet does not become the<br />
vehicle for a dramatic expansion of government<br />
power. The internet’s independence is its power.<br />
It has unleashed innovation, enabled growth, and<br />
inspired freedom more rapidly and extensively<br />
than any other technological advance in human<br />
history. We will therefore resist any effort to shift<br />
control toward governance by international or<br />
other intergovernmental organizations. We will<br />
ensure that personal data receives full constitutional<br />
protection from government overreach. The only<br />
way to safeguard or improve these systems is<br />
through the private sector. The internet’s free<br />
market needs to be free and open to all ideas and<br />
competition without the government or service<br />
providers picking winners and losers.<br />
America’s immigration<br />
policy must serve the<br />
national interest of the<br />
United States . . .<br />
Immigration and the Rule of Law<br />
Our party is the natural home for those who<br />
come in search of freedom and justice. We welcome<br />
all to the Great Opportunity Party.<br />
The greatest asset of the American economy is<br />
the American worker. Our immigration system must<br />
protect American working families and their wages,<br />
for citizens and legal immigrants alike, in a way<br />
that will improve the economy. Just as immigrant<br />
labor helped build our country in the past, today’s<br />
legal immigrants are making vital contributions<br />
in every aspect of national life. Their industry and<br />
commitment to American values strengthens our<br />
economy, enriches our culture, and enables us to<br />
better understand and more effectively compete<br />
with the rest of the world.<br />
We are particularly grateful<br />
to the thousands of new legal<br />
immigrants, many of them not<br />
yet citizens, who are serving<br />
in the Armed Forces and<br />
among first responders. Their<br />
patriotism should encourage<br />
all to embrace the newcomers<br />
legally among us, assist their<br />
journey to full citizenship, and<br />
help their communities avoid isolation from the<br />
mainstream of society. We are also thankful for the<br />
many legal immigrants who continue to contribute<br />
to American society. To that end, we both encourage<br />
the preservation of heritage tongues and support<br />
English as the nation’s official language, a unifying<br />
force essential for the advancement of immigrant<br />
communities and our nation as a whole.<br />
America’s immigration policy must serve the<br />
national interest of the United States, and the<br />
interests of American workers must be protected<br />
over the claims of foreign nationals seeking the<br />
same jobs. With all our fellow citizens, we have<br />
watched, in anger and disgust, the mocking of our<br />
immigration laws by a president who made himself<br />
superior to the will of the nation. We stand with<br />
the victims of his policies, especially the families of<br />
murdered innocents. Illegal immigration endangers<br />
everyone, exploits the taxpayers, and insults all<br />
who aspire to enter America legally. We oppose<br />
any form of amnesty for those who, by breaking the<br />
law, have disadvantaged those who have obeyed<br />
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