Say What We Are For
Reform vs Restoration
DJT was elected to the Presidency for a second term because a majority of Americans agree with some form of this sentiment: "The system is rigged and broken."
Many politicians in the coming years will probably try to make a simple case that we must "Restore America."
They will want this message because it sounds safe, and politicians do not like to take risks when campaigning for votes.
We believe that if this political strategy succeeds, it will be a disaster for Liberty and Justice in America.
Because Americans are right:
The system is rigged. The system is unfair.
Such an unfairly rigged system will almost certainly continue to create disaffection and dissolution in the US population until our self-governance experiment fails.
Therefore, we need more fundamental reform.
How PL2029 Serves Reform
We hope to target two things here at ProjectLiberty2029 which have not found a natural home elsewhere:
(1) Proposing and refining solutions to the disasters caused by the MAGA regime.
(2) Examining how historic human psychological realities have led us to this point, and how that understanding should change what is proposed in (1).
By solutions, we mean concrete proposals which We the People can understand and which We the People must demand that our leaders pass in Congress to restore Liberty and Justice to America.
By disasters, we include the public’s lack of faith in our self-government project as well as the numerous and dangerous abuses of power by this fascist regime.
Our Reality
By human psychological realities, we mean the deepest human truths such as:
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we are born without the choice of our parents,
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we generally favor our children over others,
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women know for sure who their children are, but fathers do not,
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humans learn by the examples of others,
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humanity is at least 250,000 years old and evolved in the Ice Age when wealth accumulation was impossible,
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humans do not know the future, however:
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we still believe we can predict what’s coming,
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our predictions are often wrong, and
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yet we continue to believe we can predict the future,
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humans make most of our risk judgments based on individual examples, not on statistical analysis,
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humans working memory only has room for four to five considerations,
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humans form societies because we are our own best defense to our worst enemies: which are
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disease,
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pests, and
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other humans
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there are three kinds of 'games' that can model all human interactions (especially those involving wealth):
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negative-sum,
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positive-sum, and
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zero-sum
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In the first two of those games, we are able to make natural allies out of other humans, but in the zero-sum case, we end up with winners and losers, and generally this leads to enemies,
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Our current economic and political systems came about through traditions building upon traditions that were attempting to answer these psychological realities over thousands of years,
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As such they are not ideal, and can be considered in many ways accidental.
These psychological realities structure the proposals and thinking here at Project Liberty 2029.
Too often our perspectives on our problems do not delve back far enough. We are easily seduced by the belief that our written history is our true history. But as Aslan says in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe: "…if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. "
Legislative Landscape
There are two ways to make reform without violent revolution: Laws and Constitutional Amendments.
We do not want violent revolution.
Therefore, we want to use Laws and Amendments to bring about needed reforms.
While both are necessary, there are also problems with both.
The Problems with Laws
In many cases a law may be possible but may also be judged to be Unconstitutional.
In some cases a law is plainly not be unconstitutional, or would be so weak as to be ineffectual. Take, for example, any law that would attempt to constrain Political Parties: they would not have much teeth against the implied freedom of association derived from the 1st Amendment’s rights to free speech and free assembly.
The Problem with Constitutional Amendments
Constitutional amendments are governed by Article 5 of the US Constitution and the languages is complex, but boils down to two pathways:
Constitutional Convention
Our original Constitution was formed with a Constitutional Convention.
Since that time, there has never been another Constitutional Convention.
If two-thirds of the States, through their Legislatures, call for a Convention to propose Amendments, then if passed by that Convention (whose parameters are not specified) can be ratified by three-fourths of the states and become Amendments to the Constitution.
Traditional Amendment
The normal way of amending the constitution is by Congress passing the proposed amendment by two-thirds majority in both houses, and then ratified by three-fourths of the states.
This has been done 27 times, but most recently it was over 33 years ago.
Therefore achieving a constitutional amendment is nearly impossible.
But it is not actually impossible.
If any series of events in modern history is to lead us to amending our constitution, this fascist MAGA regime in power is a good candidate.
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Two-thirds of the states is 33.3 states, which must be rounded up to 34 states since we cannot subdivide a state, and only 33 states has not yet reached two thirds. Three-fourths of the states is 37.5, which must be rounded up to 38 states. Currently 29 legislatures are controlled by the Republican Party, 18 are controlled by the Democratic Party, 3 are divided between the parties and one is considered non-partisan. [1] |
PROPOSALS
Laws
No First-Use of Nuclear Weapons
No One is Above the Law
Protection from Data
No Self Enrichment by Government Office-holders
Money is not speech, Corporations are not people.
Rights to Nature
Protecting Separation of Powers
Amendments
Protecting Voting Rights
Ranked Choice Voting
Popular Vote
No First-Use of Nuclear Weapons
No One is Above the Law
Protection from Data
No Self Enrichment by Government Office-holders
Money is not speech, Corporations are not people.
Rights to Nature
Protecting Separation of Powers
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