Right now, my political platform is down to three things:
* Domestic policy: Citizenship ought not to be automatically conferred based on where your mother was when you gained separate life. It ought not to be based on heritage, and it ought not to be based on property. Citizenship should be continually earned. You accept adult privileges when and if you are willing to accept adult responsibilities. Give it a five year shelf life, after which you need to re-test, re-commit, or whatever. Loosely put: Immigrant who holds a job for five years, stays out of trouble with the law, and wants to swear fealty: In. Dumbass sitting on his butt in middle-ass America, waiting to collect another welfare check: Out. Let’s start acting like a meritocratic democracy again.
* Foreign policy: Blatant extortion, based on our military power. All nations should either send us protection money (10% of their GNP ought to do it), or fend for themselves WRT their own defense. Anyone not sending protection money should be subject to invasion, occupation, and eradication at our whim. Our whims include “keep it down with the gunfire over there, or we’ll drop throw cuba at you.”
* Technology / Space policy: Our singular purpose as a society, for as long as it takes, should be to carve the moon into the shape of a huge, six sided die and to color it pink. We need to pimp the planet, and a “fuzzy dice, hanging like testicles in the sky” moon is the first step. This will unite humanity in a single coherent effort, establish our dominance of the skies, and force the development of both sustainable space construction and terra-forming technologies.
Who’s with me?
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