Framework

There are two major themes upon which we can build:

• Individual actions (things we can directly control)
• Political means (things we cannot individually control, but can collectively influence)

Over the next few posts, I am going to provide VERY high level outlines of these proposals. 

Individual actions:

• Turn off the television and don’t engage with social media accounts that promote a terror state.
  
  
• Stop sharing ideas at which you have only taken a cursory glance.
  • We chatter about “fake news” and “misinformation campaigns” then actively promote both on our feeds. 
    
    Hypocrisy is the worst kind of evil.
    
    
• The most beautiful, and dangerous, thing about capitalism is that these things start and end with us. 
  • If we stop watching Fox News and CNN, they either have to change their messaging or stop making money. My bet’s on the former. 
    
    
• Just as we saw effective movements in 2020, outlets won’t modify their rhetoric unless many individuals disengage. 
  
  
• Separately, approach things from the perspective that you’re wrong and seek “common ground” – not “to be right”. 
  • Neither of us know everything. The ones that do “know everything” are the ones who know the least… of that much I’m certain. 
    
    
• I’ve had a lot of really good conversations over the last few months with many folks with whom I both agree and disagree – to each of you, thanks. 
  
  
• I learned something from it (and hopefully I articulated that to you… I truly make an attempt to). 

Political means: 

There is never going to be policy that everyone agrees on, but the United States were founded and built on compromise. 

Here I will address a few policy areas that involve more regulation than I would prefer, but, for the sake of progress, would be willing to endorse. 

These are predicated on the proven idea that there is a direct, and perhaps, causal relationship between median income and crime rates. 

I will elaborate on each of these in the following days:

1. Decrease personal tax rates at all levels. 
   
   
2. Decrease domestic economic regulation. 
   
   
3. Tighten international economic regulation to incentivize American companies to work from America. 
   
   
4. Increase corporate tax.  
   
   
5. Install a generational wealth tax. 
   
   
6. Focus fostering relationships between police and the community each department serves.  
   
   
7. Cut federal spending on state issues, particularly in states that have consistently displayed an inability to effectively self-govern. 

For society to be useful, it must be possible for most members of that society to (at minimum) sustain the quality-of-life into which they were born and (at best) improve their own as well as others’ station.

I will elaborate on how each of these improvements is vital to a useful society.