The Modern Whig Party of Maryland

The Modern Whig Party of Maryland 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

ct principles of fiscal responsibility and public accountability. ENERGY INDEPENDENCE - Develop practical domestic energy sources to reduce dependence on foreign energy sources. STATE'S RESPONSIBILITY - Each state can generally determine its course of action based on local values and unique needs. SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE - When the government is compelled to legislate morality, every citizen should be considered as equal. EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENT - Increase public and private emphasis on math and science to promote American innovation to compete in the global economy. VETERANS AFFAIRS - Vigilant advocacy relating to the medical, financial, and overall well-being of our military families and veterans. II. Structural

Structural Principles are the most important to the Party. Our structure is what makes us fundamentally different, non-ideological, non-partisan, and not confined by the political spectrum. DEVELOP REAL LEADERS - This central tenet of the Party is to help leaders both grow and to exhibit good citizenship through leadership. SELF DISCOVERY - As a Whig it is important to always be learning and growing. This means it is the Party's responsibility to pull information together and to help members discover for themselves their stance on any social topic. III. Perceptual

We have become a reactive society. While there is little we can do about the underlying problem, as a Party we must always consider many perspectives, including a long term perspective. FOCUS ON LONG TERM PROBLEM SOLVING - We have developed into a reactive nation. The only issues being seriously considered are those who make the top of each media hour, however it is important to be talking about and solving issues that are foreseeable before they are major issues. Company Overview

We are the party for the silent majority. You ask who will speak for you? We Will. You ask who has your ideals in mind? We do. We are not the Republicans, We are not the Democrats, We are the best of both and the worst of neither, We are the Whigs and we stand for you, you who are a majority made up of all varieties of minorities. We are the party for Everyday Americans, not just those on the Left or Right, we are the party for those whose parties have lost sight of who they serve, You! The people! The everyday American, We are your party, We are the Whigs!

https://electology.org/blog/top-5-ways-plurality-voting-fails
10/20/2018

https://electology.org/blog/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.

Why do we challenge the supporters of “politics as usual” when they have all of this power? We dare to challenge them be...
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 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.

Argueing is about WHO is right.Discussions are about WHAT is right.To date an arguement has never resulted in finding a ...
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 believe in solving problems not arguing ideology.

http://action.modernwhig.org/we_are_a_respectful_party
08/20/2018

http://action.modernwhig.org/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...

No country has ever become stronger by dividing itself.
08/11/2018

No country has ever become stronger by dividing itself.

Citizens should expect four outcomes from a healthy political system— the current system delivers none of them1. Practi...
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

http://action.modernwhig.org/what_exactly_is_a_whig
07/21/2018

http://action.modernwhig.org/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.

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