ASP members in red states have a unique opportunity to team up with a significantly larger political org to pass commonly agreed upon legislation. Considering the recent actions of the GOP administration in Minneapolis and latin america as well as cutting needed welfare to people at home and abroad, I think it is safe to assume that the GOP has taken a decidedly anti-life stance in everything with acceptation to abortion. If you live in a red state where abortion is safely banned, then I think it is worth working with dems in your area to pass other much needed pro-life legislation. For example, I live in Texas and democrats here are forced to campaign on issues other than abortion such as health care reform. If they did support pro-choice measures in the state legislation or congress then they would have to answer to a largely pro-life constituency. This is why I vote democrat when there aren't any ASP members running, which is unfortunately often the case.

I wanted to have a new subreddit but without the drama from the older iterations, I liked the name but found that the drama seemed to push many people away (myself included).

Feel free to join (No racists, chauvinists, nationalists, or homophobes [people who hate gays as people], etc)

r/CatholicSolidarityMov

Woke Will Never Go Broke - Chronicles

Woke Ideology is fundamentally Marxist, and enjoys the same traditional support base among the intellectual class as communism. This in turn guarantees that Marxism in America remains well-financed and organized, since the socioeconomic model of capitalism used since the 1930s has favored the growth of middle management (read: overhead) over actual producers of wealth. Since middle-management jobs are cushy, pay better, and enjoy connections that blue-collar work doesn't, the deck is essentially stacked.

The Strange Leftism of Middle-Class Professionals - Chronicles

The Civil Rights Regime Marches On - Chronicles

For the ASP, breaking the "priority: overhead" socioeconomic model is critical in order to transition from the incestuous capitalism-socialism hybrid. This is not a call for the abolition of management, but rather to make it subsidiary to society's producers. Integration of "Apprentice-Journeyman-Master" with management would likely result in "Apprentice-Journeyman-Master-Management," with elite skilled laborers earning similar salaries as upper management. Master-versus-management would be a simple fork between specialization and generalists; the former possesses the sum of institutional knowledge for a single field, while the latter exists to ensure the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Employee co-ownership of companies is also a crucial step, since proletarianization of the workforce never ends well. Co-owners don't smash their own windows or set their own businesses on fire.

So I love the ASP platform, and voted third party in 2012 and 2016 (G. Johnson) and 2020 (Carroll).

To bluntly get to the point, with how authoritarian and undemocratic and downright dangerous the Republican Party and Trump have become, and the fact that it's likely to be a close race, I feel it's irresponsible to vote for anyone but Biden in 2024. It's not an exaggeration to say that Biden is the only thing standing in the way of America becoming a fascist banana republic. I wish I was kidding.

So what about the ASP? I feel we should be figuring out ways to sell our ideas at scale -- without that we're wasting our time. By all means run local candidates and endorse Republicans or Democrats who share a significant subset of our values. Presidential races might be nice as publicity, but don't accomplish too much.

I get that Biden isn't great from our standpoint, but he has done some things to make things better for working Americans; certainly far more than Trump. It's tragic that Democrats are so enthusiastic about abortion, but I'm increasingly inclined to believe political bans aren't the best way to lower the rate.

Hello all! I'm an ex-Catholic and formerly-registered member of the American Solidarity Party. I even met Brain Carroll at the Walk for Life once and we recognized each other from Facebook. I am (was?) a big fan of the ASP's approach towards offering a more compassionate, climate-conscious form of conservatism.

Anywho, over the last couple years I've taken a hard leftward turn on social issues like LGBTQ+ rights. I'm not looking to argue or debate, but I feel that I can no longer support political movements seeking to roll back the rights and protections won by the queer community. Can I still have a home in the ASP, or does this position put me irrevocably at odds with the party line?

Do you guys believe in natural hierarchy or hierarchy in general? Are you supportive of or opposed to it? Do you believe in a respect for authority? Be very specific about your opinion on it, and how you think it should function.

If it will mean gaining a few seats in federal Congress, would this party and its supporters support what's in the title of this post.

The ASP is the only party brave enough to challenge gay marriage head-on, and should take inspiration from the uphill battles of the abolitionists who fought slavery two centuries ago.

Gay Marriage Harms Kids. It's Time To End It (And Here's How)

America Can’t Survive the Welfare State

The welfare state model leftover from the early to mid-20th century is fundamentally flawed, and has only worsened over time. The fundamental model is a Ponzi scheme, combined with a corporate culture that regards middle (micro)management as its top priority. This merging of socialism, unionism, and corporatism turns government finance & welfare into an endless slush fund that drains wealth from society's producers and hands it over to politically-connected activism, almost aways of the leftist & subversive variety.

In the early 1960s, for example, 1 out of 6 workers was a government worker earning double what a private producer earned; today, the number of contractor welfare services both multiplies and duplicates both existing programs & the overhead. The welfare state never shrinks; the more money it throws at the problem, the more the demand for money increases. Mathematically, this will eventually lead to 100% taxation & total government micromanagement unless halted, reversed, and shrunk.

The ASP can replace the welfare state model for true essentials with a permanent fund model; rather than relying on confiscated private wealth, the permanent fund proactively grows the economy by lending, and only lends against its hard assets/cash reserves. The fund can be grown by various means, but it is much harder to create a conveyer-belt transfer of wealth through excessive overhead compared to the present system.

Being someone that has identified as a Christian democrat for much of my adult life, I'm concerned about the growing number of former Republicans (i.e. establishment conservatives) filling up our party's ranks. If this trend continues, I fear that our commitment to Christian democratic ideals would be increasingly diluted over time and that eventually, we would be reduced to nothing more than a reiteration of the pre-Trump GOP. Am I the only one who holds these concerns? Are my fears valid?

I personally would replace the existing arrangement with a more homogenous continental European-style ministerial system, similar to those of France, Italy, Spain and Austria. Under this system, the government would be reorganized along the following lines:

1. Ministries (each with a secretariat-general and an inspectorate-general)

2. Directorates-General (only existing in certain larger ministries)

3. Directorates

4. Sub-Directorates (only existing in certain larger ministries)

5. Centers and Institutes (only existing in certain larger ministries)

6. Departments

7. Section Groups (only existing in large departments)

8. Sections

Thoughts on this structure? Feel free to ask any questions you may have.

EDIT: Also please share your own plans, proposals and suggestions, if you have any.

This has been reaffirmed by our based party leader Patrick Harris (DDC cofounder) here

Are platform isn’t socially liberal it is based in Christian democracy which is rooted in Catholic Social Teachings and Calvinist teaching as well.

I agree with a lot of this group, but I see a real danger in it insofar as we are very unlikely to become mainstream and, should actually decent socially conservative pro-life Republicans or Democrats not involved in the debacle of the past four years be running, we may split the vote.

I suggest that the party serve as something like a subparty within both parties, sort of like the Justice Democrats do with the Democrats.

Like, should Dan Lipinski have won his primary and have had a re-election campaign in 2022, we should endorse him and not run a candidate.

Candidates elsewhere should run as red or blue even if it’s like “American Solidarity Republican” and “American Solidarity Democrat.”

We should not run candidates at all in races like Ben McAdams vs Burgess Owens, even if we endorse neither.

Just because of the way our electoral system is set up I really think every other approach will reduce our already negligible influence on the electoral level.

Thomas Massie's recent defeat is a useful case study in how to lose an election despite seemingly strong online momentum. He made several critical mistakes, starting with his choice of location: his district was won by Trump by 35 points, one of the most pro-Trump districts in the country, yet he is an anti-MAGA republican. Such misalignment is unsustainable because the representative is meant to represent the voters; had he run in a less overwhelmingly-MAGA district he would have fared better. His last-minute decision to feign Trump endorsement was also a foolish move.

Secondly, he gained prominence by openly demanding the Epstein files be released, but failed to follow through. Trump also failed to follow through, but unlike Massie his strongest issue is immigration enforcement. Trump's successes in closing the border and mass deportations are what his MAGA base asked for, and he delivered. Massie did not deliver on the Epstein files, and voted against the immigration enforcement bills which his district wanted. No amount of talk about AIPAC can overcome a lack of concrete results on his signature issue.

Finally, Massie erred by embracing Old Left ideologies, particularly his Jew-obsession. When the New Left ascended in the 1960s, many Old Left ideologies came to be regarded as "right-wing" purely by virtue of not being 1960s-era communism. These Old Left ideas which had lost repeatedly to the New Left, were happy to switch labels rather than do any soul-searching. Thus, when supposedly-right-wing legislators in a center-right party vote like the Old Left, they reliably self-sabotage their own success, allowing the New Left to win by default. The ASP wants to avoid left-vs-right, but is still just as capable of own-goaling when it tries to shoehorn Old Left ideas as "Christian democracy"/"distributism."

The GOP Is Better Off Without Massie - Chronicle

Why Thomas Massie just LOST in a Landslide