FWIW, you have my full permission to share this and the Common Good Manifesto as far and wide as you like. And if you want to add your own bullet points, reshape the ideas, or build on them with your own vision — please, be my guest. This isn’t meant to be a personal project or a pedantic rulebook. It’s simply meant to plant seeds.
We spend so much time talking about the misdeeds of people who would derail democracy for their own gain that we forget the most powerful tool we have:
a shared vision of what the future could be.
This manifesto — and this note — are an invitation to shift the conversation. Instead of focusing on what’s broken, let’s talk about what’s possible. Let’s talk about what we want, what we dream of, what we owe each other, and how we lift the whole country up together.
If anything in the manifesto resonates with you, take it. Use it. Add to it. Share it with your family, your community, your faith group, your workplace, your school board, your circle of friends. And if you know someone younger, more energetic, better placed, or ready to lead — hand it to them. My real hope is that this becomes a spark in their hands. Maybe this can be a tiny piece of the starting point for a new New Deal — one built not on fear and scarcity, but on solidarity, fairness, and the stubborn belief that we really can do better.
Please do share. Speak up. Speak loudly. Speak together.
Because when enough people start imagining a better world in unison, that’s when the world actually changes.
It’s important for the rest of the world to actually see that Americans aren’t staying passively behind their screens. It’s important for other Americans to see this. Bodies together create energy to push on. If you object to protests it’s important that you actively promote your successful methods of fighting the fascist regime.
ICE out for good!
I’m going there at the Guilford Green this Saturday.
Thank you!
‘For OUR good’
King street downtown Charleston SC 2-4, pop ups all over!!
See you there!
I’m with you all!!! Sharing!!!
Thank you! 😊
THE COMMON GOOD MANIFESTO
A society built for people, not predators.
We are at our best when we invest in each other.
We are at our worst when we abandon the vulnerable.
This manifesto is how we return to the common good.
I. DIGNITY AND JUSTICE
1. Release the Epstein files — full transparency, no exceptions.
2. Impeach, convict, and imprison Donald Trump and every handler who enabled his corruption.
3. No federal office for any convicted felon.
4. End the weaponization of the justice system against the poor, immigrants, LGBTQ people, and marginalized communities.
II. DEMOCRACY THAT ACTUALLY WORKS
1. Abolish the Electoral College — one person, one vote.
2. Abolish ICE — replace it with humane immigration policy that honors human rights.
3. Ban gerrymandering with a standardized national apportionment method.
4. Two-term limits for every elected office.
5. Mandatory retirement at 70 for all elected officials.
6. Paper ballots only — end the era of hackable voting machines.
III. AN ECONOMY THAT SERVES PEOPLE
1. Restore 1950s-style progressive tax rates — when America was prosperous and fair.
2. Overturn Citizens United — corporations are not people.
3. Eliminate the Social Security payroll cap and tax capital gains for Social Security contributions.
4. $25 minimum wage indexed to inflation.
5. Medicare for All, one unified system — no A/B/C/D maze.
6. Congress receives Medicare, not boutique private insurance.
IV. WORKERS, CREATIVES, AND PUBLIC SERVANTS
1. Big pay raises for social workers, teachers, librarians, artists, and cultural workers — the people who actually hold society together.
2. Universal childcare — because families are the foundation of the nation.
3. Free public university education.
4. Full forgiveness of all student debt.
V. CLEAN GOVERNMENT
1. Root out corruption at every level, starting at the top.
2. Full financial transparency for every elected official, appointee, and senior bureaucrat.
3. Ban lobbying for former officeholders for life.
VI. THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE
We choose a country that values:
• Compassion over cruelty
• Community over greed
• Truth over propaganda
• Shared prosperity over billionaire hoarding
• Democracy over minority rule
• Human dignity over corporate profit
We choose a nation where the common good is not a slogan, but the organizing principle of public life.
And we refuse to apologize for demanding better.
A Note to Accompany the Common Good Manifesto
(Please copy, paste, and share widely.)
FWIW, you have my full permission to share this and the Common Good Manifesto as far and wide as you like. And if you want to add your own bullet points, reshape the ideas, or build on them with your own vision — please, be my guest. This isn’t meant to be a personal project or a pedantic rulebook. It’s simply meant to plant seeds.
We spend so much time talking about the misdeeds of people who would derail democracy for their own gain that we forget the most powerful tool we have:
a shared vision of what the future could be.
This manifesto — and this note — are an invitation to shift the conversation. Instead of focusing on what’s broken, let’s talk about what’s possible. Let’s talk about what we want, what we dream of, what we owe each other, and how we lift the whole country up together.
If anything in the manifesto resonates with you, take it. Use it. Add to it. Share it with your family, your community, your faith group, your workplace, your school board, your circle of friends. And if you know someone younger, more energetic, better placed, or ready to lead — hand it to them. My real hope is that this becomes a spark in their hands. Maybe this can be a tiny piece of the starting point for a new New Deal — one built not on fear and scarcity, but on solidarity, fairness, and the stubborn belief that we really can do better.
Please do share. Speak up. Speak loudly. Speak together.
Because when enough people start imagining a better world in unison, that’s when the world actually changes.
The Trump regime has proven themselves to be murderous.
I am dispondent that 77 million voted for this corrupt creep to be their president.
And what? I'm going to protest. Won't do a damn thing except people getting frostbite in the north
Watch this.
https://youtu.be/YJSehRlU34w?si=lACjCAUxvHAdja2b
The video is 12 years old. Next!!!
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-future-of-nonviolent-resistance-2/
https://youtu.be/a1kcR8eqNNk?si=lCHewDtz6_GdhMQm
https://youtu.be/K5KAl0wr9Qk?si=1V3jSJ3BKeNPutip
Here
https://youtu.be/MHr21Scmzkk?si=BLoi-7kJ6-bywGo6
Why? Peaceful isn't going to do anything
It’s important for the rest of the world to actually see that Americans aren’t staying passively behind their screens. It’s important for other Americans to see this. Bodies together create energy to push on. If you object to protests it’s important that you actively promote your successful methods of fighting the fascist regime.