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We ourselves must stand on the street corners and distribute this document. We ourselves must email it to friends and relatives. We have no other voice in this age of tech oligarchy and censorship. No one will fight for us but ourselves.

We are done with both Democrats and Republicans because both have proven themselves irredeemably corrupt, bought and paid for by a small wealthy elite like Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Jack Dorsey, Bill Gates, and the Walton family of Walmart, who grow ever wealthier at our expense while shutting down legitimate peaceful political commentary. The stock market reaches new highs for the few while the many see their small businesses crushed by a well-orchestrated hysteria. It is the best of times for them and the worst of times for us.

Big businesses are joining together to discriminate against conservatives to protect themselves from popular outrage. When they scapegoat conservatives, they deflect attention from themselves and what they have done to America.

Billionaires have allied themselves with gravely mistaken people of the left to defeat the interests of all working people.

Every person on the left believes they just survived the parallel to the rise of Nazism in Germany and they defeated it. What they have actually defeated is a popular uprising against the tyranny of a small elite. They themselves will also suffer the consequences of that tyranny.

The left believes that all Republicans are white racists.They feel empowered to live out their Civil Rights warrior fantasies. They imagine themselves toppling Jim Crow and the Confederacy and the Nazi army in one swoop. Yet every powerful authority is on their side, Wall Street, the media, academia, and now government. "When the media is on your side, you are NOT the resistance." They don't wonder for a single moment why Wall Street donates and supports them. They don't see themselves as silencing conservative speech. The see themselves as eradicating violence, terrorism, racism and hate from the internet. They are gleeful that conservative working people are vulnerable and scared of our voice being suppressed. They imagine we are the people in old 1950's photos angrily shouting at black school children. We are not human to them. We are symbols of what they feel morally driven to remove from the world. They carry and nurture old high school resentments and project them onto conservatives.

The left conflates the America which defeated the Nazis with the Nazis themselves. This is as wrong as it is possible to be.

The most powerful people who own and influence technology see us the same way, and it is not a coincidence that their suppression serves their business interests very well. We aren't customers, or users, or people with real lives and families and small businesses. We are a problem to be solved. They've been trying to figure out how for years and finally can do it through outright censorship.

Free market ideals no longer work is because all markets are controlled by fewer and fewer people who dominate all options. There is nowhere else to go. And those oligarchs are ideologically driven to eradicate all sources of "hate" from society, which conveniently coincides with removing any threat to their absolute power. It's a religious crusade. And we conservatives, ordinary people who work for a living, are the target.

We cannot reason with them. They see our pleas for fairness as one would see a segregationist pleading for fairness. They believe - believe - that once we are gone the internet and therefore society will be cleansed, free, peaceful and able to heal. FROM US.

We are not the ones defining our place in this world. We aren't white supremacists or nazis or bigots or violent insurrectionists. But the powerful have segregated society into "good thought" and "bad thought" and their strict and narrow worldview has placed us here.

We are innocent, but it doesn't matter to them. They hate what they IMAGINE we are. They cannot be persuaded otherwise and we have no power even to speak, except in person on the street corner, or by email, or setting up our own small websites. You cannot convince them YOU are a good person wrongly categorized. The only people who have any influence have made up their minds and don't care to change it.

We need a new Civil Rights movement to make it illegal, step by step, to violate our rights. They won't voluntarily stop.They think they are the heroes of the story fighting for the good of humanity.

We must add Political Affiliation to anti-discrimination law in all states. We no longer have the luxury of arguing against the idea of protected classes. We are now a marginalized group. We need to understand that and behave as such. This is a Civil Rights movement. We have to march. They will throw garbage at us and laugh.

If you think you are exempt from this because you didn't vote for Trump or you defend businesses with "they have a right to" censor, then you are not paying attention. YOU do not define your status. Its imposed onto you by the elite and their misguided allies, just like every prior targeted group. You are a minority now. You are targeted for what you believe, for whom you associate with and - to be very clear - for your very existence. You cannot change that fact. This has been applied to you by the people with power.

Enough bickering over philosophical nuances. You are a marginalized minority now. The first step is adding Political Affiliation to anti-discrimination and hate crime laws because the left targets us for physical violence.

We must create the legal framework to force businesses and corporations to defend their discrimination policies. Force them to second guess themselves. We can do this at the state level first. We just need a solid foundation to force their hand legally. Their discrimination and open bigotry will not stop until it is illegal and enforced to stop. You will not shame them into acting ethically or fairly.

We must stop treating the internet as a novelty that we do not truly need to function. We must have an internet bill of rights, legal rights protecting all people from censorship and banning for who they are or what they believe. This is a new world.

Again, the traditional free market arguments no longer apply. Businesses are behaving collectively to discriminate against a single group in order to protect themselves from popular outrage. You are now in that group. Your entire online life. Your ability to communicate. Your bank account. Your job. Your healthcare. Your access to the world.

Its not "just Twitter." Your life can be taken from you for nothing more than a photo or an association. You cannot compete with such power. People who believe that your politics place you in a category deserving of discrimination and violence CONTROL your life right now. Understand this.

It is time to relentlessly, legally, fight back and spread this message. We don't like to do this. It is time consuming and awkward. But its our only option to regain our liberty.

Every act of injustice against us must be treated like Rosa Parks did, refusing to sit in the back of the bus any longer. I cannot repeat this enough. The powerful left WILL NOT voluntarily stop this crusade. We must use all legal efforts now to overwhelm them with lawsuits and legal challenges to stop all of the forms of discrimination they feel entitled to now, especially discrimination by Political Affiliation.

This is real. We are dying as they export our jobs and then vilify us to justify our impoverishment. As we die so that the few can get much richer, we are slandered and blamed for racism we do not possess.

We have no representation in government, only the elite does. The elite is well defined in "Who Rules America" by G. William Domhoff.

The elite owns almost everything. We own almost nothing. They whip the political left into a frenzy of bigotry and violent intolerance, burning down small stores.

The left does not understand that what they defeated is the working class, for the benefit of billionaires.

Our question for every policy should be: "Is this good for working Americans, those who live by their own labor?"

The two effects of Democrat/Republican uniparty rule that we most object to are:

1. Mass outsourcing of US jobs to China and other poor countries to profit billionaires like Bezos and the Walton family.
2. Mass insourcing of illegal aliens to drive down US wages yet further, again to benefit business owners at the expense of American workers.

There are three prerequisites for our existence as a viable party:

First, we need the police and the military on our side. They understand tradition and honor and are themselves working Americans. If they obey the elite unquestioningly, then we lose without ever getting started. Protest marches will be in imprisonable offense, deliberately conflated with rioting. Do you know anyone in the police or military? Please send them this document.

Second, we need absolute election integrity and transparency, which we cannot have without the support of the police and military. We should adopt the Israeli voting system everywhere by national law, even if it takes a Constitutional amendment. We need a clear paper trail for each ballot and a clear chain of human manual counting inspected by members of all parties. No voting machines should be used, ever, as they are easily corrupted. All absentee ballots should be strictly limited to medical need and military service, and explicitly applied for. There should never again be ballot spam, not even during a pandemic, as there was in 2020. All voters must personally show government issued photo voter ID from an office which checked US citizenship. It is insane that one needs photo ID to buy a beer, but not to vote. Election integrity is good for working Americans. It is the oligarchs and coastal elite who need an obscure and easily gamed voting system, since they are in the minority. We are the large majority.

Third, we need to run our own websites and each of us personally advertise them to others, so that everyone knows that they have an alternative to the lapdog mainstream media who report whatever distorted view the elite pay them to report, suppressing all other views shamelessly. All mainstream media lies us into war over and over for the benefit of the elite. The lies about Iraq carried by all of the MSM are proof enough. The New York Times is guilty of war mongering. We will ruthlessly document the pervasive MSM propaganda against labor and against peace and unity. Every newspaper has a business section, but none of them have a labor section.

We do not use Google, Facebook, or Twitter for anything, ever. Our party websites will forbid Google from indexing them or accessing them at all. The tech companies are against ordinary working people and without mercy or understanding. Their services are NOT free. You pay dearly with your privacy, and the information they quietly collect WILL be used against you. Every large asymmetry in power causes corruption. They have extreme levels of power and have become exactly as evil as they claimed not to be. We will organize our own study groups and protests personally, via email if necessary. We will write our slogans and meeting information in chalk on the streets. We will run for office.

Walmart has been the greatest source of devastation small town America has ever seen, except perhaps for Amazon. Their efficiencies came with staggering human cost to middle America. Jeff Bezos and all of the Walton family became billionaires, but a million small retail stores closed on small main streets.

We reject and shame all who place illegal immigrants above our own poorest citizens, because they show not the slightest sympathy for our own. Black Americans suffer the most from illegal immigration, yet their opinion on illegal immigration is never asked or reported. We are against illegal immigration and for the actual enforcement of our laws. Illegal immigrants, however desperate they may be, steal jobs from our own poorest American citizens, those who need jobs the most. Only those whose jobs are not threatened by illegal immigration support it.

Anyone who employs an illegal alien must go to federal prison for at least one year. The employers of illegals are traitors, impoverishing Americans to enrich themselves.

We demand an end to all H1B and all similar visas unless the incoming worker is paid at least twice as much as an American would be for the same job. The program exists to make tech oligarchs richer at the expense of Americans who could do those jobs. There is no shortage of American skilled labor. There is only a shortage of labor who can be threatened with deportation by oligarchs if they make any demands. Illegal immigrants also make good servants to the rich because they committed a crime to come here and can be therefore be threatened with exposure. Americans DO want those jobs at fair wages, just not at illegal immigrant wages.

We support high taxes on non-productive "rent seeking", where "rent seeking" does not mean the rent on a house, but the attempt to get something for nothing, taking it from working people without creating anything of value. Regulatory capture is an example of rent seeking, where paid lobbyists bribe Congressmen to defeat the free market and to disadvantage small businesses. You can simply look at the a list of the largest lobbyists in DC to know who is corrupting our laws. See https://www.opensecrets.org/

We support zero tax on income from labor. Zero income tax on salaries and hourly wages! The only income tax should be on income which is not from salaried or hourly labor, such as interest, dividends, and capital gains - money derived from the work of other people. The elite make almost all of their money from capital gains. Why should a doctor pay much a much higher tax rate than a billionaire who lives from capital gains? Our tax system is an unfair regressive disgrace.

When there is no tax on labor, working people will have more money to spend, and the economy will boom. When the rich get more money, they just throw it on their pile in the basement and the economy stagnates. They do not need more money for "investment." There is too much money washing around at near-zero interest rates with nowhere to invest it because demand is choked by the impoverishment of labor.

Your boss and yourself are always in conflict over wages. This is necessarily so, because if you get more in wages, the owners get less in profit. And if working people get their jobs outsourced to countries with no unions and minimal labor and pollution laws, or have to compete with illegally imported labor, then stockholders unfairly benefit at the expense of labor. We support a good profit for businesses as a way of creating jobs, as long as those jobs are fairly paid.

It is in the interest of Bezos/Biden/China that the US working class fights each other with manufactured left/right tribalism so that we cannot unify to stop outsourcing and to raise wages for labor.

Borders define every country. Without borders, we have no country and are mere slaves to global capital. We are for strong, visible, physical borders, because those borders project the jobs of millions of the poorest working Americans from illegal competition that drives down wages and protect American jobs from cheap goods made in countries without pollution or labor laws.

We believe that to end racism, we must STOP TALKING ABOUT IT as Morgan Freeman asserted in an interview with Mike Wallace. The obsession with "racism" serves to divide us so that we can be ruled by the elite that owns both sides of the Democrat/Republican uniparty. False accusations of racism keep working people fruitlessly fighting each other instead of the elite who are outsourcing their jobs and insourcing illegal competition.

We believe in The Melting Pot. Our grandparents understood that downplaying our different origins is the way to national unity, and not praising deliberately divisive diversity. We are for unity as working Americans of all origins, with no divisions. We are the large majority! We are against divisive diversity for its own sake, which deliberately weakens the unity of labor and classifies people into little buckets not of their own choosing. We gladly accept and are for all Americans regardless of background. We seek to minimize our differences, not inflame them.

We are fighting the disease of "wokeness" which is spread through schools and universities to our children so that they turn against their own country to benefit the elite. We love our country and demand that every historical statue torn down by rioters be replaced by the city that failed to protect it. It is our history.

We are for a mandatory course in gun training for every adult citizen. The existence of the First Amendment depends on the Second Amendment. This was true in 1776 and remains true today. The elite are terrified that common people have guns. It is the biggest threat to their absolute power over us.

All banks and payment systems must be absolutely forbidden from banning financial access based on politics. This is a Civil Rights issue!

No employee should ever be fired for political speech or political activity, and it must be made a serious crime to refuse to hire anyone based on their political beliefs or political speech. This is a Civil Rights issue!

We are for personal responsibility. The government is not responsible for taking care of us. We are responsible for ourselves.

We are for an absolute ban on dual citizenship, because dual citizenship always creates conflicting loyalties. You are American or you are not. There must be zero ambiguity. China does not allow dual citizenship because they understand its harm.

We are against outsourcing and globalization, which drives down our wages to benefit our disloyal elite. We import cheap goods from China to make Bezos and the Walton family ever richer, at the expense of American wages. Eventually, no worker will be able to afford even the Chinese goods. They have made us dependent on China even for basic antibiotics. When America is a smoking ruin, those billionaires who ruined it will flee like rats and find other countries to destroy with outsourcing. They have already proven themselves disloyal to America a billion times over.

We are anti-Communist. Communism is a failed ideology that has always resulted in mass shortages and frequently in mass death. We praise those who start their own businesses which create good paying jobs.

We are pro-capitalism but opposed to the existence of billionaires. There is a limit to all things. No one needs that much money. If you have one billion dollars, congratulations, you won. Now leave some opportunity for others! All assets above $1B should be taxed and distributed to the public each year, not to government, which will waste it.

Billionaires become political forces unto themselves, buying influence and destroying democracy to preserve their position. It is in our interest to have many more separate capitalists competing for workers in any market. This is a far better solution than even collective bargaining is.

Our economy has become like a softball game where one side demands to win because it's their softball.

There is no free market, capitalism, or competition anymore when the winners can rewrite the rules to favor themselves.

By limiting the maximum wealth to $1B, we also give very wealthy people a motive to maintain the value of the dollar, which is constantly debased at the expense of the poor. This limit must never creep downward nor upward, but always be fixed at exactly one billion US dollars.

We are anti-lobbyist. Lobbyists are working against the people and for the elite in all cases. No government employee should ever be allowed to lobby during or after public service. Violations should be strictly punished. We must never even speak to any lobbyist or be seen socializing with them.

We are pro-business as a source of jobs. Small businesses should be encouraged by undoing the laws hobbling them, though large business also has an important role to play in creating jobs.

We are against personal debt, except as necessary to start a business. Debt is slavery, used to control you and order you about at the threat of being evicted from your home. All debt subsidies drive up prices, costing you much more for education and for a house, in order to benefit banks, realtors, and universities, which are groups with power, and not you.

We are against copyright longer than 20 years. There should be no "renewals." Copyright enforcement is practice for political censorship, telling you what you can and cannot say and hunting down those who say the "wrong" thing online. Twenty years is long enough to profit from any creative work, just as it is now for patents. Copyright law was corrupted via lobbyists specifically to benefit the Disney Corporation.

We are socially conservative. We are strongly for the traditional family, a married father and mother living with their own biological children. This family is our source of national stability and prosperity. We believe in motherhood, and yes, apple pie.

We demand short and simple laws in clear ordinary language that the majority of citizens can read and understand, not 5,500 page monstrosities of pork and obfuscation. We demand that all legislators read every word of every law before voting on it.

We are pro-military as domestic defense, and against foreign war, which happens only to profit the elite.

We are for cheap medical insurance outside of an employer, so that ordinary people can start small businesses. There should be no insurance premium tax break for employers alone! We must also prohibit the AMA from preventing doctors from offering services directly or in small groups.

We are for published medical prices and an open market in medical care in non-emergencies so that people can shop to drive down prices, and for price limits for emergency care. All non-emergency must should present a bill in advance of treatment and get it signed, or they provider is owed nothing.

We are against The US Chamber of Commerce, which represents only big business and keeps medical costs high to benefit employers who want you dependent on their tax-advantaged insurance alone, insurance you cannot get yourself unless you pay much more than they do.

We are for publicly funded Congressional campaigns to give everyone the opportunity to get elected without selling out to the elite. We are for limits of two terms for any office, to prevent entrenched corrupt Congressmen from holding onto power.

We are for consensus middle of the road environmental laws, without extremes, always in light of how many jobs will be created or destroyed, and at what wages.

We should treat others as we wish to be treated, and have no predatory trade deals with poor countries.

We prefer to support small farmers over conglomerates.

We should promote this document to college students who have seen their debt explode and job prospects disappear because the corrupt elite has outsourced their jobs and their tuition rose ever higher as a direct result of student loan debt subsidies which benefit banks and university administrators. College students have good impulses, but are then crassly used for the benefit of billionaires.

We do not take donations in cash, ever, because they are a temptation to corruption, and because the billionaires are in control of banks and can freeze or confiscate those accounts by classifying us as "terrorists" even though we are completely non-violent. To make a donation, just pay to set up your own web site where we can converse outside the censorship of Facebook, Google, and Twitter. Or email this document to everyone you know. Or organize local meetings of American Party members. Or run for office yourself! They WILL censor our advertising, but you do not need their advertising platform if you can personally reach enough people through American Party websites.

We have no hierarchy, no central party headquarters. We run on the principles in this document alone. We do not take orders from any central party authority which can be corrupted, or if successful in opposing the billionaires, imprisoned. Our symbol is the American flag. Everyone who says they are a member is thereby a member, as long as they have American citizenship and no other citizenship, and as long as they remain non-violent. We are not violent like the left is. Anyone committing acts of violence is by definition NOT a member of the American Party. The lapdog media will absolutely try to smear us with false accusations over and over and over again. But we all know that they are professional liars.

This is the whole of our platform. Be wary of those who would corrupt it by adding to it. If we remain true to it and relentlessly spread it, we can once again have broad prosperity in America, not only for the few and the political elite. This is our hope.

(Thanks to Chad Felix Greene for much of the wording around liberal psychology.)