The Platform

The key to everything is the primary.

We register as both Republicans and Democrats, run in both primaries where the law allows, and fight to change primary laws to ranked-choice voting — putting progressive-libertarian ideas on every ballot.

We are not a third party — we are unifying the two we already have.

Our leaders run in both primaries, and the party is servient to the citizen — we take no pledge of obedience to any machine; we lean one way or the other and vote our conscience. Washington warned the republic against the spirit of party in his Farewell Address. We intend, at last, to take his advice.

The only way to truly secure a computer is to turn it off and bury it under barbed wire — so in the post-quantum age, elections go back to paper.

Every ballot is a paper ballot, counted by hand. It takes a couple of weeks; they did it before the calculator, and so can we.

Every political action campaign should operate as a non-profit.

Repeal Citizens United, and break up the Super PACs with the antitrust law we already have. Take the private profit motive out of who governs.

Free enterprise wherever a market can sustain it — at least 5 firms, none above 20% share.

Bigger than that is a presumed monopoly that must prove it isn't bullying. Foster small business and innovation.

Shrink government to the smallest fraction of the economy that still keeps us secure.

If a function can be an independent non-profit, it should be. If it can be private enterprise, it should be. Government does only what requires security and control.

The market is a tool, not a religion.

Where the profit motive works against society — health care, defense — privatization fails. Some things must never be run for profit.

Invest in the infrastructure and energy a modern economy runs on — and defend freedom and liberty in every regard.

Public foundations, private flourishing.

Our problems are man-made, so their solutions are too.

Break up the compute trust with the antitrust law we already have, democratize AI compute on an open public blockchain, and extend the Progressive era's labor protections to advanced AI itself.

Three tyrannies threaten a free people — the fascist's crown, the techno-feudal cartel, and the communist's commissar.

Each is concentrated, unaccountable power over people, and we will defeat all three — while protecting fledgling industries from the bad actors who would strangle them in the cradle.

Education, trade schools, and health care are the highest-yield investment a society can make — higher education pays back over 200%.

We fund them heavily, through competing non-profits on yearly-renewed contracts, or we are eclipsed by the societies that do.

Social Security was never a piggy bank — it is pay-as-you-go, today's workers protecting today's seniors.

Scrap the payroll-tax income cap so the wealthy pay in on every dollar, closing most of the long-range shortfall, and fix the real problem — an upside-down age pyramid — by resourcing families and welcoming intelligent immigration.

Fund the auditors publicly so no one grades their own homework.

Split the IRS's enforcement arm into an Auditor General's Office of the Public and Private Trust, auditing government, non-profits, and private enterprise under one roof — so nobody cheats the system.

Growth requires risk, and no one risks capital on ground that won't stop shaking.

We don't care what the climate is — only that it is stable, the same way GDP growth needs a stable economy. Right now it isn't, and your insurance bill already knows it.

A no-loophole, steeply progressive income tax — low on working and middle families, cresting at 59% at the very top — with one exception, a refundable Caregiver Credit for anyone raising children or supporting an aging or disabled loved one.

Plus a wealth tax that begins above $3M, passes 5% at $20M, and keeps climbing for the largest idle fortunes.

Build a stronger community and a stronger republic — and enjoy it.

Join your local Grange Hall or League of Women Voters, start a non-profit to compete locally, and come dance your way into the next generation.