Episode 36 Hour of Decision: Platforms and Purity

[00:00:00] It's midnight in America, and this is the Hour of Decision. My name is Lou Moore. Tonight, we're going to talk about platforms, about the GOP platform, which is going to be a central feature of the Big National Convention coming up in just a few days.

[00:00:23] Going to try to help all of you get your heads screwed on straight in this area. Sorry to be a little presumptive. A lot of us, people in the movement, don't have their heads screwed on straight right now.

[00:00:39] So there's always one topic that goes along with a county, state, or national political convention. And that's the big rollout, and a lot of times the big battle over the platform. The platform is supposed to be the stated beliefs of the party.

[00:00:58] But the party, and actually the party's candidates, are supposed to run on. So I got a problem with that supposition right away, actually a couple of them. One, most of my experience in politics is working with candidates, not working with the party per se.

[00:01:21] And I've worked with a lot of candidates running in areas that are not really very friendly to conservatism. Not areas, not districts, not political jurisdictions that just automatically salute the flag. Vote Republican and they're all excited if you sound a little bit like a conservative.

[00:01:46] I have a little different perspective on that. I don't think candidates should run on every word in a party platform. Period, I just period don't think that. I think candidates should run on what they believe and then let the voters decide. That's the first thing.

[00:02:04] Secondly, as I've tried to impart to listeners of this podcast in an earlier episode, the purpose of political activity is to take power. Candidates, issues, issue sets, in other words groups of issues, and the parties themselves are weapons.

[00:02:27] They are weapons to be deployed in the effort to take power. They are not statements or evidences of your political purity. Folks, the only reason to even be affiliated with a political party, and in this case we're talking about the Republican Party,

[00:02:52] is because it is a more effective means to gain power because it's midnight in America. This is the hour of decision. Are we going to fight for this country or not? And if we're not going to be fighting out in the street in a big bloodletting,

[00:03:11] if we're going to be taking the bloodless route of politics, which is my preference, which I think is your preference, then we have to use the weapons at hand for that task. And political parties and candidates, issues, slogans are all weapons in the task of taking power

[00:03:38] so you have the ability to make the changes that prompted you to get involved in this nasty mess to begin with. There's no other reason to do it folks. So I view the platform exactly the same way. It's just another part of this process.

[00:03:58] It's a political weapon in our quest to take power and to take power away from those who would destroy us, to destroy our freedom entirely, our heritage, our future generations, in their quest for total power, for total government, which is what our political opponents folks are all about.

[00:04:23] So today as we approach the Republican National Convention, and as we approach the triggering of conservatives over the platform, I will say the platform discussion here is triggering me too. I'm triggered at these brainless conservatives so concerned about Donald Trump using his power

[00:04:47] and frankly his prerogative to run on the issues he chooses and to communicate on other issues in the way he chooses to change the wording in the platform to, oh my god, get votes to win. What is he thinking?

[00:05:07] You know I just got an email and this is how I got triggered, to be honest. I just got an email from a movement leader and I don't know him but I have friends that know him. They think pretty highly of him.

[00:05:22] I think he's probably totally, completely sincere. He says I want to assess the Republican Party. He's going to be a delegate at the convention. I want to assess the Republican Party and we'll stand for the truth regardless of cost

[00:05:41] if the GOP chooses to weaken its pro-life stance to win elections, then the rest of the platform won't matter. What matters more than any party is that we all act like Americans who assess things in accordance with the Christian based principles of the Constitution. Really? Regardless of cost?

[00:06:07] What will be the cost if Trump doesn't win this election? And does the platform actually matter? Let's take a look at how our enemies roll. Our successful enemies, the ones that laid the groundwork, which is now starting to look

[00:06:26] like to almost everybody as a communist takeover of this country. But let's look at FDR. FDR ran on a platform in 1932 of making the government smaller to deal with the Great Depression, which had now been going on for a couple of years when they wrote this platform,

[00:06:49] to cut the budget, to tighten the belt, to do the things that traditional Democrats, if you listen to my podcast on the party system, the same one where I talk about using issues as a weapon and using platforms, things like platforms as a weapon.

[00:07:08] This is the kind of stuff he ran on folks, because that's what it took for him to win and then bring in a group of individuals who had been working on this and waiting for this

[00:07:20] moment for years, people who were teaching your children in the universities while they were out of power to come in and enact one Marxist program after another and completely change the whole idea of government in America. That's what FDR did.

[00:07:38] FDR is the one that made it totally okay to use government for just about anything, to use government to get votes, to use more government spending, to take away your freedom. That's what he did, but the weapon he used, very deceptive, was the platform and I'm not

[00:07:57] suggesting we undertake deception on that scale. No way, it's just not in the nature of our people to do that. But that's what our enemies do folks, because they understand what politics is. As Newt said it, he said it to me one time, politics is war without blood.

[00:08:16] That's what it is. And we're fighting for all the marbles today folks, we're not fighting for just a ideological concept of a redistributing wealth versus the free enterprise system and which one is better. Let's have a long academic discussion about it.

[00:08:32] We're talking about our very lives folks as we know them. We're talking about the total power of government staring us in the face and the people wielding that power want to completely take away just our guns and

[00:08:47] the Second Amendment, they want to take away our words, our speeds, our ability to even articulate our thoughts. The First Amendment's totally on the line. We're at war. When you're at war are you a purist on every single aspect of the army you're fighting

[00:09:06] with and what the general thinks on every single issue, everything that might come up? I don't think so. Okay, so let's get an idea of what the larger truth is and the larger falsity is. Not just a legalistic, parasitic view of every single issue now.

[00:09:29] Don't get me wrong. I'm pro-life. I believe in the pro-life movement but you know I also believe in the Constitution and up until the pro-life movement said that we had the nationalized issue, this issue was supposed to

[00:09:44] be handled at the state level which is why the constitutionalists on the Supreme Court, the great minds we have there like Thomas and Alito and Gorsuch as they pointed out this issue. This is a state issue. This is not a federal issue folks and either is marriage.

[00:10:02] These are the two ones now that Trump kind of tampered with that traditional language. That language folks, now think about this. This is language Trump took out on marriage, on the issue of marriage.

[00:10:16] It's for one man and one woman and I don't have in front of me the abortion language but they're not happy. The pro-life movement is not happy with Trump because he's been very candid with them. We got to fight this out at the state level politically right now.

[00:10:32] They don't like that kind of straight talk and they don't like the answer he's giving them but ladies and gentlemen, I mean these are the facts right now. These are the facts of this situation but these are the things that are triggering our opponents

[00:10:47] and you know they've made changes in the platform. Oh my god it was in the platform for years that marriage was between one man and one woman. Well you know Mitt Romney was perfectly fine with that. Mitt Romney was all for that. McCain was for that.

[00:11:03] I think it was 32 years they said it was in the platform. Trying to remember the number of years but we're going back I believe back to George W. Bush, McCain, Romney they were all for this language.

[00:11:17] What they weren't for ladies and gentlemen was to fight for you and to fight against this globalist regime against these Fabian Socialists that are now poised to take away all of your rights.

[00:11:29] They didn't do a very good job with that and of course if we're looking at McCain and Romney they also didn't do a very good job of winning. They didn't win and they lost. So Trump is Trump. Trump has a record. We know what he did as president.

[00:11:50] We know how he acts under fire. Under more fire I'll point out folks. More than any buddy on our side of the football. I mean have you been tagged for five hundred million dollars of your money?

[00:12:08] Essentially because you're standing up to the system threatened with jail threatened to be kept off the ballot. Come on folks it's obvious that our enemies see a threat in Donald Trump returning to the White House. That is the big truth okay that's the big truth of the matter.

[00:12:31] It's life or death here ladies and gentlemen and it is obvious obvious that it won't solve all of our problems not by any means. Trump is not perfect not by any means. I don't agree with Trump on a number of things.

[00:12:48] We're going to talk about one of them here in a minute but it's obvious folks that it's not really that important whether Trump gets out a marker and says I want to change these words about abortion

[00:13:03] so it's easier for me to communicate in campaign to win this election. I want to change these words on marriage so we can get some moderate women who maybe haven't thought this issue out as clearly as we would like them to have done that they might still

[00:13:21] vote for him which is where this is coming from and it is totally to get votes ladies and gentlemen totally to get votes. That's why these changes are being made but it's in a larger context. Sorry I'm all for it. The platform is not what's important here.

[00:13:42] What's important here is that the platform does no harm to our candidate and that our candidate wins and that we take power and that we start reversing these things that will kill our republic if we do not reverse them very very soon.

[00:14:03] That's what's important that is what's critical right now. The platform is a weapon and we don't want it to be a weapon used against us. That's what we do not want what we cannot have.

[00:14:19] We have a border fight right now that is existential to the future of the United States as it is now. We have to win that fight folks. We have to seal off the border, deport millions of people and keep them from voting. That's right now. It's real specific.

[00:14:43] We got to do it. We have a candidate who will do it. I believe he will do it. I believe he has enough of a track record that he will do it. We have an energy fight on our hands.

[00:14:55] They want to get us out of our cars folks. This has not been a short-term objective. This has been a long-term objective. Ronald Reagan talked about this for God's sake and the way they're going to do it is to

[00:15:09] make every car cost about a million dollars with some rinky tank electric gizmo in there that doesn't work properly, that sucks too much energy out of the system. We can't all even have these kind of cars and that's just the beginning of the problem

[00:15:25] of this whole situation with energy. We have to get back to a rational energy policy. We have to get back to oil independence. That's what we need to do and we got to do that soon because of the economic damage

[00:15:39] it's causing as well as the damage to our own freedom. That's an immediate fight. We got the cultural fight with the Marxists and yes they did have something to do but the fact that we're dealing with abortion is an issue, something that wasn't even an

[00:15:55] issue in this society. Not that long ago if you have a historical perspective, same with marriage. But we have some immediate issues like they're taking our children and performing surgeries on them. They're taking away the parents' rights to even know about these things.

[00:16:14] This is absolutely critical and it's right now and it's right in our face and it's something that we can do about it and we need somebody in the White House that is going to back. Our side of that issue all the way.

[00:16:30] The Marxist fight is in the school, it's a cultural Marxist fight. It's in the military folks. We got to get every bit of DEI out of the military right away.

[00:16:45] Do you have any doubt that Trump won't take a big swing at that as big as he can possibly take in the White House? What about the internationalist fight folks? What about the World Health Organization? What about the climate stuff at the internationalist level?

[00:17:04] We already know where Trump is on that. We already know that he will stand up for that and then what about election integrity? How about that? Do you want to take any risk of these Democrats having four more years of control in the White House

[00:17:22] when we have these very pressing issues and I have a name to all of them that are right in front of our face? And yes, it would be the best if nobody got an abortion in America. It would be the best.

[00:17:37] It would be the best if every state in America outlawed abortion. But you know what folks, we're just not there right now. We're not there politically, culturally. It's not good, but I don't want to give up the progress that is just, it is so close to us

[00:17:57] as we sit in July of the election year. The progress that we can make on these major issues that we have to make. I don't want to sacrifice that because I'm standing up for every little grain of truth and you know it's just not true.

[00:18:14] It's not exactly right what they've changed the platform to. You know, sorry about it folks. Just don't look at it that way. And I really don't want you to look at it that way either because we need every one of you, including the person that wrote this email

[00:18:32] who's a very accomplished individual from what I understand. We need them a hundred percent in this fight, not standing back and taking an assessment of the Republican Party. I totally get folks, we have been betrayed over and over and over again. And I have friends. You're in Utah.

[00:18:55] I have friends in other parts of the country, political activists that have tried to use these platforms as a way to tether these squirrely politicians that we seem to just continually deal with, particularly on the right that come to us and talk a good game.

[00:19:13] Then they get a couple of private meetings with the leadership or a couple of private meetings with some special interest and suddenly they've grown in office. They don't have the same views that they told us they had, but now they're incumbents

[00:19:28] and now they have campaign war chess and now we can't get them out. I understand this cycle very, very well. But you know folks, not everybody is like that. That's in politics, not everybody that disagrees with you on one issue even if it is a foundational issue.

[00:19:48] That doesn't mean that they're not valuable to this cause on another issue. If they're willing to fight for it, not going to throw out coalitions and working with people who aren't exactly like us to get the things that we need to get accomplished, to get them accomplished.

[00:20:05] But I have friends that you know, so they try to use the platform to tie these people down. They make them sign a pledge. I will be a platform Republican, et cetera. I understand completely the motivation behind this.

[00:20:20] I don't want to be critical of that, but this is the truth folks. People either got what's in them to fight this establishment or they do not. And whether they sign a platform or not a carefully conceived,

[00:20:37] constitutionally based platform, that isn't going to be enough to keep these people from betraying you. At the same time, you get somebody like Trump who is not perfect, who does not probably have all of the core beliefs that you have.

[00:20:54] I don't think he has all the core beliefs I have, but he's cut a record. He's put his money on the line. He's put his personal safety on the line. He's put his family on the line. He did cut off immigration to a huge degree.

[00:21:09] He did make us energy independent. He did fight the cultural Marxists in the military. He did whack the World Health Organization, the climate initiative. He did stand up to NATO. Yet another one of these internationalist outfits where they're just taking advantage of us in a terrible way.

[00:21:33] I don't want to get into NATO issue. It has some complexities in my opinion, but Trump stood for us on a lot of key issues. And he didn't get a lot for it, but grief. They tried to impeach him the entire time he was in office.

[00:21:48] Folks, it's right in front of your face. You don't see this? Look, I'm not going to step back and make an assessment of the Republican party because, oh my goodness, they've changed the platform.

[00:22:00] When we have a candidate who is fighting for us, we need to fight for him. We need to fight for him. And I'm just going to say this. We've got all these great libertarians running around. Oh my goodness, they're just totally against the government power,

[00:22:16] the federal government, all these constitutionalist conservatives. Where is the outrage? At what has happened to Steve Bannon? Where is the outrage, folks? I don't see it. I see a little bit of performative activity way too late on the part of the Congress at the last minute.

[00:22:38] And I don't agree with Bannon on a bunch of things, on a number of things. You may not either, but he has stood up for the same cause, the same basic cause, the same critical issues that I just mentioned.

[00:22:54] And he's in jail now, folks, because I'm principal on his principles. And it's not right. Jailing your opponents, jailing your opponents, keep people just before an election. It's not right. Where are all of these great people?

[00:23:11] Where are all of these great, high-minded, pure as the driven snow ideologues? Where are these people? They're nowhere to be found, folks, most of them. Nowhere to be found. Big problem. I will take a Steve Bannon any day. I will take a Donald Trump any day.

[00:23:31] Over somebody with three followers saying, oh, I'm sorry. They're just not, you know, there's not a way over here. We took a look on page 81. It's not constitutional. What these people say? Oh, they're trying to get votes.

[00:23:44] I can't even believe some of the things that I have to talk about. I'm talking conservatives. Seriously, folks. Seriously. It's midnight in America. It's not 9.15 AM. We're not going for a casting call from some 1950s family sitcom that we all live in.

[00:24:07] We are in the fight of our lives right now, even though it's not kinetic, as they say, all across America. Thank God. It is a fight. It is a real fight with real world consequences.

[00:24:26] We need to get all of these distractions out of our minds and focus between now and election day. Focus on victory. Focus on victory, folks, and stand up with the people who are standing up, who are risking everything just for Mr. Trump,

[00:24:51] but people like in my state that are standing up for an election system. That's bankrupt. That's totally corrupt, that right now is holding hostage somebody that should be our next congressman from the state of Utah.

[00:25:06] We got a congressional race hanging in the balance because of a whole train of corruption, folks, has been going on and a territorial race cutting some corners there. People are fighting back. Thank God. Thank God that's happening in my state.

[00:25:25] And I know, I don't know where you might be listening to this, but there are people in your state right now who are standing up and who are fighting for our freedom, for our way of life.

[00:25:36] You need to stand with them if you are not as of yet. My name is Lou Moore. The name of this podcast, which I try not to make a complete rant every time I turn on this microphone, is called Hour of Decision.

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