How I live, my work, my mission, and my vision are more

conservative than today’s conservatives,

liberal than today’s liberals,

libertarian than today’s libertarians,

progressive than today’s progressives.

How? By doing what no world leader believes possible. They haven’t even tried, hence their lack of credibility, integrity, vision, or remotely practical plan to address today’s greatest problems. The stakes are higher but solutions more practical and achievable than they know.

Most of us can’t make it through breakfast without violating:

The Declaration of Independence

The Constitution

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Love your neighbor as yourself.

Live and let live.

Leave it better than you found it.

I am working to restore these values, to enable us to look people in the eye and say “we’re doing our best,” which few of us can anymore.

I am no dreamer or ideologue. I am not woke, neocon, Antifa, or MAGA. I am not merely hoping for the best. I follow cold, hard practicality based on hands-on practical experience nobody else has tried, as far as I know. Some have done pieces, but not the comprehensive whole necessary to craft a vision for a brighter future and practical, rewarding path to it. I didn’t say easy or fast, but the work will be as rewarding as raising a child or any worthy endeavor.

Our greatest challenges are not external, but the rationalizations and justifications we tell ourselves each time we act against our values, as have our parents and ancestors since before history. These legitimizing myths lead us to analyze and plan instead of act, often to capitulate. We chase pipe dreams in technology, legislation, market incentives, education, and protest that are often fraud, usually augment the problems, and always distract.

We didn’t ask to be born into a culture inducing us to violate our values—that is, corrupting us—but we were. Past generations kicked the can to us, saying “When our children’s backs are to the wall, they’ll figure something out.”

It turns out that others solved how to live together without hurting each other. This nation is founded on that solution, but we have never fully implemented it. While I present an American perspective, it applies everywhere that people value liberty, freedom, equality, democracy, and national security.

I am finishing the solution that this nation’s Founders started; that Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and peers advanced; and that more recent fighters for liberty, freedom, equality, democracy, and national security have approached by not reached the root.

None of these historical leaders asked to be born into a culture that corrupted everyone around them and that couldn’t be overcome in their lifetimes either. They took responsibility and did their best. I am leading us to also.

When you grasp the vision, you will see your transgressions of your values as repugnant as those of people who went along with history’s greatest atrocities. You will still face enormous internal struggle—of overcoming lifelong dependence surrounded by others also dependent. You will sometimes crave relapse.

You will see the work as rewarding as raising a child or other worthy endeavor. We are making the world and ourselves healthier, safer, and more secure.

You will embrace the work. You will love it.