Recently, I’ve been thinking of writing a book on politics.<\/p>\n
I go in the bookstores, and I see lots of books in the politics\/current affairs section on being a libertarian or being a conservative, and how the future is with the Republican Party and its conservative\/libertarianism. I see fewer books from the other side of the aisle, but they’re there, too.<\/p>\n
I don’t see any books for me<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I want to see a book about how the Republican Party, if it is to forge a Republican future, must embrace its socialist and progressive roots, must carry forward its tradition of social justice and civil rights.<\/p>\n
In others words, a book about how to be a Teddy Roosevelt Republican in the 21st century. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I look at today’s Republican leadership, and I don’t see a man fit to lick Roosevelt’s boot. None are of his intellectual caliber. Roosevelt was a man of boundless energy and limitless ideas.<\/p>\n
I don’t see energy or<\/i> ideas from Mitch McConnell or John Boehner. Repealing health care reform is a priority, but the Republicans have no ideas with which to replace it<\/a>. Putting the American financial house in order is vital, but Republican plans would send the economy over the cliff<\/a>.<\/p>\n I don’t know that I’ll actually write it, but I’m thinking<\/i> about it… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently, I’ve been thinking of writing a book on politics. I go in the bookstores, and I see lots of books in the politics\/current affairs section on being a libertarian or being a conservative, and how the future is with the Republican Party and its conservative\/libertarianism. I see fewer books from the other side ofContinue reading “On Writing Political Tracts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[4108,120,516],"class_list":["post-5607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-republican-party","tag-teddy-roosevelt","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}