DT voters know what they want. If there is a need for detail, they look at the Project 2025. Progressives are only reacting and trying to prevent things from getting worse.
As a teenager, I was a conservative. Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative explained his vision. Progressives must produce a similar work now.
See attached my plan to abolish war written as a draft encyclical. The scope covers half the waterfront. I ask people to start with this proposal and go from there.
We have the biggest wealth divide in human history. Fifty-eight men have as much wealth as 3.3 billion. That is billion with a ‘’b’’. In the United States, three men have as much wealth as 160 million. There is no reference to this terrible situation in our presidential campaign. None!
Restore income tax rates for wealthy individuals and major corporations as we had when Eisenhower was president.
Reduce our nuclear weapons arsenal from 5,000 to 1,000. Reduce our overseas military bases from 750 to 100.
Ask President Biden to declare a climate emergency. Ask all other countries to join in. What we are facing now is a bigger threat than the Axis Powers.
I propose that each industrialized nation set up an agency will seek to relieve suffering everywhere for its own citizens and everybody else. Make sure that everyone has a home, food, electricity, running water, the Internet and medical care. Abolish poverty everywhere. Religious and humanitarian agencies would still exist as a supplemental source rather than a primary one.
This is the Second Marshall Plan. This time it is for the whole world.
Train the world’s armed forces for disaster relief. Give incentives for soldiers to learn the language and culture in different countries.
Store food, blankets, medicine and water in warehouses around the world which will be ready to move when a disaster strikes.
In the US, tornado, flood, fire and crime victims would receive shelter and some money to replace their destroyed possessions.
In the developed and underdeveloped countries, supermarkets throw away about a third of the harvested food. In the US, one family in 6 is food insecure. I ask the supermarkets to establish bins for the relief agencies to pick up discarded food, clothing and other merchandise. The federal or state governments can reimburse the agencies for labor and vehicle depreciation.
In summer, 2008, our nation rescued Wall Street. I want to rescue everybody everywhere. Look after the poorest like we look after the rich.
In Kansas City, Missouri, Redemptorist Church, at West 33rd and Broadway, had a prayer service in 1945. A lady passing by remarked to a priest, ‘’Listen to those fools praying for peace. We have never had it so good.’’ The One Percent have made the same observation today but are smart enough to keep quiet.
We can achieve peace by abolishing poverty everywhere and reversing global warming.
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