The following is a description for the Facebook group "Millennial Political Hub."
Written by Joe Kopsick and Trevor Tidwell in May and August 2014.
Written by Joe Kopsick and Trevor Tidwell in May and August 2014.
By
Joe Kopsick:
A
page for a big-tent, multi-partisan coalition for a new American
republic and a new social contract.
The
Millennial Political Hub (formerly the United Freedom Alliance) is a
coalition that caters to the voice of the people.
We
know that the people of the world, of the United States, and
especially the Millennial generation (the generation born between
approximately 1982 and 2000) want to think and work together
peacefully to solve some of the biggest challenges facing the world
over the next several decades.
The
American Dream is in shambles. The Baby Boomer generation will not
only out-earn the Millennial generation; they will also live longer
than Millennials. Generational debt has resulted from our
government's financial mismanagement. Homelessness, hunger, poverty,
and economic disparity still plague the world, and in America the
authorities brutally crack down on the poor, and brutally crack down
on everyone else for unbelievably minor non-violent offenses.
Life-threatening but preventable chronic diseases are on the rise. By
2025, the North Atlantic will be almost completely devoid of marine
life, and by 2030, carbon dioxide emission trends will reach the
crucial turning point.
Our
governmental institutions and processes – even our fundamental
notions of what justice and the rule of law are - are in disarray.
The stark divide between political camps which was evident during the
Culture Wars of the 1990s has given way to increasing factionalism
and sectionalism, which threaten to eventually tear apart not only
the two major parties but the fabric of society as a whole.
Simply
put, the world has a lot of problems, and each person or faction in
it has its own views about what justice is, and what standards people
ought to be held to.
That's
why Millennial Political Hub invites you to join our group, chat with
administrators, discuss in our threads, meet fellow members, and vote
in our polls. Seek your own justice, wisdom, and freedom, through
peaceful discourse and polite discussion. We do this in order to
encourage free thought and speech, facilitate cooperation and
brainstorming.
Our
desire is to build a broad coalition that would support a platform
based on what we aim to create: a working model for a personalizable,
customizable form of government (or style, or institutional framework
for, governance) that can be all things to all people. A style of -
or institutional framework for – governance, that can hold people
to their own professed moral principles and behavioral standards, not
to the principles dictated by some elite claiming to represent them.
We
believe that the people of the Millennial Generation – and of the
Millennial Political Hub – are up to the challenge of improving
government and solving war, hunger, pollution, poverty, unemployment,
collapsing public infrastructure, education, disease, and so on.
Millennials are well-educated, globally aware, culturally and
ethnically diverse, and politically conscious, yet relatively
untainted by partisan politics.
The
Millennials are not content to become a silent, ignored, mistrusted
generation. The Baby Boomers seem certain that we are going to save
them, but they don't seem willing to accept any of our terms. Our
generation may volunteer in record numbers, but we don't always work
for free.
We
demand little more than the tools to do our jobs: our fair share of
opportunity, a peaceful and free society, a safe workplace, a truly
social safety net that extends beyond the scope of government welfare
programs, and a basic guaranteed standard of living to provide a
level playing field.
We
want more reasonable licensing requirements and more widely
accessible job training. We want it to be easier to volunteer and to
work, and we want those labors to be more effective and more
profitable. Likewise, we want our government to spend our money more
wisely and more efficiently.
The
Millennial Generation cannot take its place in history as a proud and
accomplished generation unless and until the political, societal, and
economic values systems of the Baby Boomers are no longer imposed on
us. We know that society cannot survive when groups and individuals
impose foreign values systems, customs, and traditions upon one
another, not without dire consequences.
Millennial
Political Hub urges its members to read The Fourth Turning: What
the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with
Destiny by William Strauss and Neil Howe. Strauss and Howe teach
us that generations and history shape and influence one another, and
postulate that generational societal change occurs in cycles.
Millennial Political
Hub hopes to find ways for our generation to get along with the dying
members of the G.I. and Silent generations, and the Baby Boomers and
Gen-Xers. We also want to ensure that the next generation does not
fall victim to the same war, nationalism, and depression that
afflicted the Silent and Progressive generations.
Collectively,
we stand for:
-
Subsidiarity and localism: increase governmental efficiency and
efficacy through the decentralization and diffusion of
decision-making and enforcement power down to the lowest possible
level without compromising competence.
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Household choice of legal community and location (for single-person
households and family households alike).
-
Self-determination of households and consensual legal communities
(whether or not the lands that such communities are contiguous and
connected).
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Egalitarianism and isocracy
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Civic republicanism; an emphasis on written law
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That a social contract should be written, signed, sealed, delivered,
and acknowledged by all parties involved, just like any normal
contract conferring mutual obligation and surety.
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That breaking a social contract, or changing its rules without
sufficient cause and/or notice, should merit ostracism, and
compulsory exile and self-dependence; rather than forced submission
or violent retribution (unless democide or mass mayhem is risked by
not initiating violence in the face of an imminent threat).
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That consensus- and coalition- based democracy are preferable to
majoritarian democracy (even based on a majority of those who
participate) because majoritarianism is insufficiently supportive of
- and insufficiently deferential to - individual rights, cultural
differences, the self-determination of legal communities, competitive
provision of justice, and non-cooperative pacts and truces providing
for non-aggression.
-
Separation of powers in dispute resolution: eliminate corruption in
jury selection; promote full information of juries; reinstate
common-law grand juries; ensure that no dispute resolution or
arbitration agency has the authority to license any other (s), nor to
compel any person or agency to always and exclusively come to it for
dispute resolution; and ensure that police witnesses, prosecutors,
and judges (who all represent the state) and court-appointed public
defenders cannot collude to keep jurors and the accused ill-informed
of their rights.
To
learn more about the inspiration for this group - and about the
history of Western political philosophy - the original three authors
of the group recommend viewing the following 12-part video series, a
course that was filmed at Harvard that covers Locke, Nozick, Rawls,
Aristotle, and others:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY
By
Trevor Tidwell:
The
Millennial Political Hub is a place for Millennials to gather,
discuss, brainstorm to create mutually
agreeable solutions across partisan and ideological lines, and form a
big-tent, multi-partisan coalition for a new republic and social
contract, that all may have justice and freedom for themselves,
rather than having values and ideals imposed on them.
We
invite you to join our group, chat with administrators and other
members, vote in polls, and participate in peaceful discourse and
polite discussion. We encourage free thought and speech, and want to
facilitate cooperation and brainstorming.
As Millennials, we
are not content to become a silent, ignored, lazy, and mistrusted
generation. Our Boomer parents and grandparents once seemed certain
that we were going to save them, and with the proper guidance and
negotiation, we will rise to the occasion. Gen-Xers have distrusted
us, but we will build bridges of mutual respect, appreciation, and
teamwork. We will end the conflict between generations, so we can
face our challenges together.
We believe that Millennials,
together with Xers and Boomers, are up to the challenge of improving
government, solving war, ending hunger, cleaning up pollution,
eradicating poverty, ending unemployment, renewing collapsing public
infrastructure, improving education, curing disease, and meeting all
the challenges we face with all brightness of hope that we can
overcome them. We are well-educated, globally aware, culturally and
ethnically diverse, and politically conscious, and reject partisan
politics.
We want our markets, corporations, and businesses to
have a conscience and be socially responsible, as well as productive
and profitable. We want education to be freely accessible and
affordable for all people. We want fully integrated lives, where our
jobs and work do not take us from our families or prevent us from
enjoying the fruits and rest of a productive society. We want strong,
healthy, and happy children, families, and marriages. We want our
homes, neighborhoods and communities to be safe, friendly, clean,
well connected, and open. We want our government to be efficient,
responsible, and responsive, and our taxes invested and dispensed
wisely. We want an end to debt-slavery and wage slavery and the
building of true wealth for the benefit of all people. We want peace
and freedom.
Request to join now!
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