About
What is RLC-IL?
The Republican Liberty Caucus of Illinois (RLC-IL) is the conscience of the Republican Party. Illinois has a strong history of liberty-minded Republicans — as this is the Land of Lincoln. Opinions expressed on this blog are those of the authors, and they alone are responsible for the First Amendment-protected expression.
Attention readers or those unschooled in politics: Liberty does not mean license. We do not approve of radical individualism or of radical egalitarianism, which are tools of the New Left. If you want to destroy yourself and Western Civilization, go ahead and read the Huffington Post, Democratic Underground, or other blogs produced by so-called “small l” libertarians, who are really liberal trolls trying to infiltrate the Right as the Communists tried to infiltrate U.S. society during generations past. The Communists were exposed by Whittaker Chambers in his brilliant autobiography, Witness. We are the Witness of the 21st Century.
What does the RLC-IL do?
We are expanding our base of pro-liberty Republicans. We publish a daily blog, The Republican Libertarian. We provide our members with information about campaigns, issues and events of interest. Members are active in these various campaigns, etc. and seek to push conservative candidates and issues to the forefront. Our members also attend GOP conventions and gatherings, identify like-minded individuals in the GOP, and cultivate relationships with them. We also maintain relationships with various single-issue groups, e.g. gun owners, in order to combine forces when necessary on an issue of mutual interest.
What is the RLC-IL’s platform?
The RLC-IL seeks to support libertarian and conservative candidates in the Republican Party. RLC principles emphasize traditional conservative positions across the board.
Free Enterprise:
The well-being of Americans results directly from the economic efforts of free men and women. The advent and growth of the welfare state, with its attendant heavy taxation and pervasive controls, has greatly impaired the country’s economic growth. The RLC-IL believes that the good intentions of the welfare state have actually produced only bitterness and economic stagnation. We call for the phase out, as rapidly as possible in view of our commitment to avoid needless human suffering, of the Federal and State apparatus of mandatory social institutions.
Personal Freedom:
No less than economic liberty is the right of every American to personal liberty. We believe Edmund Burke said it best in Reflections on the Revolution in France: “But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”
Protecting Individual Rights:
The most vital function of the government is to protect and defend its citizens from threats posed by foreign governments and opportunistic groups. To that end the RLC supports the maintenance of the means to ward off and defeat any possible foreign threat to the lives, liberty, and peaceful stability of every person within the borders of this nation.
The RLC-IL Supports:
- Lower and fewer taxes
- The right to privacy
- The right to keep and bear arms
- Balanced budgets through spending cuts
- Educational choice
- Freedom of speech
- Protection of property rights
- Market-based health care
- Alternatives to the drug war
- All-volunteer armed forces
- Term Limits
- Sound monetary policies
- Deregulation
- Phase-out of foreign aid
- Ending federal welfare
- Private options to Social Security
- Free trade Privatization of government functions