Let's cut to the chase (finally).
We must rally around a single goal: Peace through individual stability, supported by mutual community action.
Peace is the absence of violence.
Violence is any act committed on a community or individual to which they have not actively, affirmatively, and informatively consented.
The conditions for peace can only be met when everyone within your reach is:
- Well Fed
- Well Loved
- and Well Rested
according to each individual's needs and cultural preferences.
To create the conditions for peace, we must respect each individual's right to exist and treat them with basic decency, ensuring they have access to the conditions necessary for peace.
To accomplish this, we must eradicate the ideology of supremacy from all of the communities that matter to us.
Only we can do this, and we can only do it together.
Here's how:
It must start with a General Strike. Do not return to work on Monday. We must shut the entire system down. We must let their economy collapse so we can be free.
Immediately turn your attention to creating networks of mutual aid and support. This is now your full time job.
If you have medical expertise, offer it freely to anyone in your communities who needs it. Teach others how to do the same.
If you control land, gather people together to prep and plant it out now - we need to grow more food closer to where we are, and we all need to be willing to participate in the work to the best of our abilities.
If you have the space, throw regular potlucks for your community - not just to party, but to feed each other and plan. Make it a weekly thing. Make it a nightly thing.
If you have technical expertise, build communication networks to replace those controlled by the supremacist perverts. Open protocols are always better than open source.
In everything you do, share the work and share the proceeds with everyone without accounting, beyond assuring there's enough to meet every individual's needs. A true, radical cooperative trusts that every contribution is needed and, thus, of equal value. Honestly, transparently, and openly address conflicts as they arise with as little judgement as possible, focusing on the goal of ensuring everyone is well fed, well loved, and well rested.
The problem with business is the presence hierarchy and supremacy. But there are quite a lot of good practices to be teased from our experiences working together to ensure we do so effectively and efficiently. We must work to identify those practices and rescue them from the perverts so we may apply them in a meaningful humane, and cooperative way. In other words, we may find it beneficial to reform some of the businesses we've walked away from, but as radical cooperatives where every participant shares as equally in the work as possible and shares the proceeds equally. If you get only one thing of value from this plan, let it be this - we must replace hierarchical structures with cooperative structures, where every participant fully owns their work and an equal share of the proceeds, at every place we find them.
We must ensure everyone within our communities is comfortably and stably housed. Housing is the absolute heart of stability - every single person should have a home they can not be forcibly removed from. Thus, we eliminate all mortgages and the concept of landlords. If you live in a home that carries a mortgage, that mortgage is eliminated and the home is yours completely. If you live in an apartment building, you now own your apartment and an equal share of the building itself with all other residents. You need to work together to determine what needs to be done to improve your homes.
Of course you should be allowed to move, but where you move should not be limited by your status or how much you make. Similarly, the people living near an empty residence should be allowed to determine who joins their community. The solution: All of the immediate neighbors of the vacant property or apartment work together to advertise the vacancy, accept applicants, review applications, and democratically vote on which of the applicants should move in - or whether to expand their search.
The value in a residence lay exclusively in its availability and its utility as a residence. Stop using their money to rob you of your basic rights.
Our system of governance is currently exclusively top down - the federal government dictates to the state government, who dictates to the county government, who dictates to the city government, who all dictate down to us. This is ludicrous - even the men who wrote our original constitution thought so. Governance must revert to being bottom up. Currently, this is controlled by a system of taxation. If for whatever reason I can not convince you to give up money, at least let me convince you that taxes should only be paid to our local government and apportioned upward from there. Our cities should not have to beg the federal government for funds to fix local roads, especially when our citizens are paying the majority of our tax burden to the federal government. So long as taxes must exist, they should be collected and used locally first, then some portion can float up to the next level of government, who can then float some portion upward until it gets back to the federal government - who, let's face it, do not need the money because they are the ones who create and control it.
We need a "Jubliee Year" where ALL debts are set to zero, including foreign debts. We are not so much controlled by money - few of us have much of it - as we are by debt. Eliminate all debt immediately, otherwise we can never be free. And keep debt from ever being a thing again. If I can not convince you to eliminate the concept of debt, at least let me convince you that we need a Jubilee Year every 15 years or so to keep the imbalances we keep seeing from happening again. The Bible agrees with me, if that helps you.
If I can't convince you that we don't need money, let me at least convince you that it needs to enter our system differently. Currently, the federal government lends money to banks, who then lend that money out to individuals and organizations they believe - in their exclusive opinion - will use it best. This has been the source of such unbelievable corruption for so long it amazes me we've allowed it to happen. It's inherently anti-democratic and anti-community, allowing supremacist perverts to control everything. If money must exist, it must enter the system exclusively through a universal basic income paid to every individual from the moment they are born to the moment they die. There should be no need for loans, credit, or other financial instruments designed to indenture people into debt servitude. There should be no financial derivatives markets or any way to hoard money. When we pay one another for goods and services - which I would assume would only happen between people who can't trust each other - we should pay according not to "value" but according to the amount of human effort put into it. The only thing that has any actual value in a community of humans is human life. In the "free" market, value is determined by human desire. In a truly free market, it should be determined by the value of human life, which is measured in time. Money paid out in this way must expire at some point to avoid hoarding. This is ultimately preferable to controlling the money supply through taxation.
The only thing we lose in this plan is supremacy and inequality. There will always be conflict - and there will always be cowardly perverts looking for an opportunity to control us. We need to acknowledge these facts and commit to enforcing the conditions necessary for peace to maintain stability and protect our families, friends, neighbors, and ourselves.
THIS is the American Dream so many of us thought we were working toward.
It's time we start living it.
This is the moment. We have everything we need to make this work.
Because all we need - all we've ever needed - is each other.