About A party for the rest of us. About
A party for the rest of us. I. Principles
The reality is these are critical to the welfare of the country and the Party.
This page is for those interested in and wanting to help promote the Maryland chapter of the Modern Whig Party. Mission
The Modern Whig Philosophy
There are three interrelated concepts that form foundation of the Modern Whig philosophy. These principles bind us as moderates, unify us as Americans, and also serve to exclude extremes. FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY - Any action of the government must respe
10/20/2018
https://electology.org/blog/top-5-ways-plurality-voting-fails
Top 5 Ways Plurality Voting Fails By Aaron HamlinBlack and white illustrations by Andy Schuler.Any academic will tell you that our choose-one voting method (plurality voting) is a terrible, terrible voting method. (There’s better.) In fact, plurality voting is so bad that it deserves its own top five list.Here it is.
09/03/2018
Why do we challenge the supporters of “politics as usual” when they have all of this power? We dare to challenge them because there is a greater source of power that they do not control. This is the power of the ballot. The voter can, in theory as well as in practice, ignore the money and the power of the politics as usual establishment and vote to return reason to politics and representation to government.
As long as the voter is convinced that they only have two choices, both of them being voting for the politics as usual establishment, they will continue to concede their power by voting for parties that do not represent them. They need to know that there is a third choice that puts them in charge again. Our strategy therefore is to convince voters one at a time, if necessary, to vote for better candidates, better politics, and better representation.
We are an Ambitious Party We applaud the common sense solutions that the party ambitiously supports to change the practice of politics in this country. We want to field candidates that serve all of their constituents, not just the large donors or those that have precisely the same ideology as is reflected in our platform.
08/24/2018
Argueing is about WHO is right.
Discussions are about WHAT is right.
To date an arguement has never resulted in finding a solution.
But they have done a great job of creating more problems.
We are a Practical Party We are a practical party – we believe in solving problems not arguing ideology.
08/20/2018
http://action.modernwhig.org/we_are_a_respectful_party
We are a Respectful Party Uncommon in today's America, we are a party that stands for everyone. Everyone has a voice and as long as you can let everyone else have theirs, we will have unity. We understand that people have differing opinions and beliefs. We hold every belief to the highest regard so long as it is respectful o...
08/11/2018
No country has ever become stronger by dividing itself.
08/10/2018
Citizens should expect four outcomes from
a healthy political system— the current system delivers none of them
1. Practical and effective solutions to solve our
nation’s important problems and expand citizen
opportunity. Solutions are policies that address
important problems or expand opportunities for
citizens. Solutions actually work and make things
better in practice. Effective solutions address reality,
not ideology. Practical and sustainable solutions are
not uni-dimensional, but nuanced, and they integrate
the range of relevant and important considerations
involved in virtually every good policy. Solutions weigh
and balance points of view across constituencies,
and make sound tradeoffs in integrating them. Real
solutions almost always require compromise and
bipartisanship. While the importance of solutions
seems obvious, solutions are almost non-existent in
America’s political system today.
2. Action. Legislation that matters is legislation that
is actually enacted and implemented. Yet the vast
majority of promises made by candidates and political
leaders in today’s system never get acted upon.
Little serious legislation is even advanced, much less
passed.
3. Reasonably broad-based buy-in by the citizenry
over time. Good solutions should be able to gain
over time reasonably broad-based acceptance and
consensus across the population. While there will
never be 100% support for any policy, true solutions (which most often involve bipartisanship) are those
that can be accepted over time by a range of
constituents across the political spectrum.
For this to happen, political leadership is required
and must—at times—be ahead of popular opinion
(that’s why it’s called leadership). At its best, political
competition should educate, unite, and inspire
citizens, rather than dividing them. Today, politics is
dividing us, not bringing us together.
4. Respect the Constitution and the rights of all
citizens. In our democracy, good solutions reflect
the rights and interests of all Americans, rather than
simplistic majority rule. This can sometimes make
achieving political solutions more complicated, but
is part of what has made America the remarkable
country it has become.
These desired outcomes seem self-evident, yet many
citizens have lost sight of what we want from our political
system. This has created a vacuum that has allowed
political actors to define success to fit their own purposes
instead of public purposes, and mislead citizens in the
process.
The structure of the politics industry has creat
08/08/2018
https://ivn.us/2018/08/06/two-party-system-threatening-nations-future/
Is the Two-Party System Threatening Our Nation's Future? The media thrives on division, intra-party warfare is demonizing centrist views, and the need for independent thinkers has never been greater.
08/05/2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/opinion/third-party-2020-election-localism.html
Opinion | The Third-Party Option National politics needs a leader devoted to redistributing power downward.
07/23/2018
COLUMN: Elections have meaning -- especially the local ones Whig characteristics include the concept of people over party, solutions over partisanship, methodology of resolution over ideology and a strong belief in our system of government.
07/21/2018
http://action.modernwhig.org/what_exactly_is_a_whig
What Exactly is a “Whig?” People have used the term Whig to refer to many things. Originally the word was a shortened version of Whiggamore which meant someone from the South and West of Scotland, “Whiggam” being the word they used to drive their horses to Leith on their way to buy corn.
07/17/2018
What is the Modern Whig Party and Could It Blossom in Trump Era? "The Republicans ascended when the Whigs died. I'm hoping that a similar thing happens now the other way around."