Most of you have pet political issues, yet your foundations and nonprofits have failed for decades to get your legislation passed, likewise your candidates. Why waste more time and money trying to elect your wish list of "candidates" when they will get nothing done, as proven by our recent Presidents who have each had majorities in Congress but have failed to pass the legislation you want. Legislative and executive changes just get changed back anyway. Bush gutted the EPA; Obama built it back up; now Trump is gutting it again. Constitutional provisions dont get changed back. Your candidates and your nonprofits have and will fail because youve given them the losing mission of asking for legislation when you need to be demanding constitutional provisions, but lack the appropriate legislative vehicle.
Putting you at the negotiating table for the first time, The Valentine Constitution is far more than even your dream scenario of collaboration between both parties and both houses of Congress, which may produce a 2,000 page legislation but would still fall far short of fixing all our problems. You just cant do it that quickly, nor with that many cooks. Thats why Jefferson was left to write our Declaration; and Madison, our current Constitution. It takes years of study, the development of a solid political philosophy, decades of writing and rewriting, thinking and rethinking, creating and more creating by a smart, creative, sympathetic person to come up with a fully envisioned, systemic solution to all our integrated problems, 40+ years in fact, to put you and your provisions at first in the conversation in the room where the decisions are made, and very soon thereafter in the chairpersons seat, dictating play.
Women, and LGBT individuals, need a constitutional provision giving them equal rights and equal pay, and ending the harassment, rape, pimping and trafficking. Blacks and the poor need a revamped justice system for policing, crime and courts, schools that develop each students gifts into real world skills, and relationship classes to end campus and community discord. And environmentalists need sustainable energy, farming, fishing and forestry practices. That coalition of voters acting together is powerful enough to dictate to all representatives to either ratify The Valentine Constitution or not be (re)elected. Add the considerable proficiency of the many nonprofits and foundations dedicated to those very issues, then add the massive firepower of celebrities, and youve got an unbeatable political juggernaut, one now disorganized, frustrated and useless. Focus all those