Change

The reason why Trump and Obama energized the electorate was they represented change, unlike the elderly statesman John McCain, Mitt "White Obama" Romney or Hillary "Female Obama" Clinton. The American public, left and right, is incredibly unhappy with the status quo. Change is the new political paradigm.

It is important for Americans everywhere to start finding common ground on what change we want, and to start acting to create that change. We should do two things in order to get the change we want:

1. Find common ground.
2. Be incessant.

Considering the fact that the Hillary supporters eventually capitulated to most of the Sander's platform, and considering how enthusiastic the support was for Trump when the time finally came to actually vote and how enthusiastic so many Libertarians are about Trump, we can divide most politically minded Americans into two camps: Camp Trump and Camp Sanders. These two camps might have more in common than they have different. Both camps:

• are shamelessly populist. Both strongly believe in the will of the people over special interests.
• are pro-peace. Both sides want to see radical cuts in military spending and much less overseas military adventures.
• want the economy in the USA altered to serve the working class.
• are very suspicious of trade deals that put the interests of corporations over the interests of people.
• want money out of politics.
• want our Constitutional Rights to be respected.
• want strong states rights so that people in South Carolina can live differently than people in California if they want to.
• want medical costs under control.
• want wide spread economic prosperity for basically everyone.
• want to preserve cultural traditions.
• want everyone to have a practical and affordable education.
• want to prevent terrorism in the United States.
• want everyone to use their time constructively.
• want people with substance abuse problems in treatment, not in jail.
• do not want to have to migrate to another town in order to survive.
• want to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
• want affordable health care.
• love Elon Musk style innovations that create energy independence for the USA.
• want medicaid expansion to replace Obamacare.

One place the left and right can act on common ground is, strangely enough, on Gun Control. Right now Trump is pushing a "Guns Everywhere" agenda. That is GREAT news for Gun Control advocates! Why? Because Texas - cowboy central - has the BEST gun regulation in the USA, called the "License to Carry" which applies to both concealed weapons AND open carry weapons. It includes finger prints, an extensive application, gun SAFETY training (to keep children from being shot accidentally,) AND weapon competency training (again to keep children from being shot accidentally):

This isn't even a compromise, it's a win/win between both Gun Control and 2nd Amendment activists! 

Think big. Think past where the politicians have already gridlocked. For example, consider the Basic Income Elon Musk was recently talking about. Earned Income Tax Credit in the USA and the Alaska Permanent Fund are two CONSERVATIVE examples of this that ALREADY exist and are ALREADY popular with conservatives. Conservative Marco Rubio has tried to figure out to use an EITC system as an alternative to minimum wage. Basic Income could potentially replace:

• Social Security
• Food Stamps
• Homelessness
• Hunger in the USA
• MINIMUM WAGE (massively increasing how easy it would be to start new businesses and non-profits)
• Incarceration (it costs us $40,000 to keep someone locked up, and we do this for 1% of our population already. It is far more American to pay them $20,000 to obey the law in the first place, as with the Alaskan Permanent Fund Dividend.)
• Unemployment benefits
• Welfare (insofar as it still exists)

Every 100 years, 90% of jobs disappear to mechanization, and within the next few decades we should see all drivers (truck, delivery, taxi, uber, bus, school bus, etc.) replaced by self-driving vehicles. How are we going to retrain all those drivers? We are going to march them down to the local community college so they can learn computer programming to run driverless cars? Sorry, as always is the case with mechanization, there won't be enough new jobs to replace even 10% of those drivers.

This is America, a free country. These drivers WILL be able to find something constructive to do, IF they have a Basic Income to rely on after their jobs were mechanized, such as taking care of family members, volunteering, starting new projects, or otherwise contributing to their communities. But without Basic Income then they will be more likely to leech off unemployment, pretending to care about searches jobs they have no skills or interest in, learn to cook meth and smuggle heroine, launder cash and otherwise take society down with them.

Before you say "Basic Income will never happen in the USA" remember that:

1. It already is happening in the USA in the form of EITC, it is just not happening enough. The alternatives (SSI and EBT) are already very politically problematic.
2. The USA used to not give women the right to vote.
3. The USA used to have legalized slavery.

But nothing like win/win Gun Control or Basic Income is going to happen if we don't get aggressive with our political representatives. We need to get loud and stay loud about what we want. When politicians from the left AND right are getting significant pressure to change in the areas we find common ground, it will be easier to get the change we need: