In 2020 as in 1776, America must begin with independence, and from that higher vantage point of peace and tranquility, work together on a plan for a better nation. This time around, it’s not an oppressive monarchy we’re declaring independence from, but it might as well be.
The Republican and Democratic parties have become every bit the corrupt, plundering agents of destruction any despot could endeavor to be. Only by capturing the White House and delivering it into the hands of two capable patriots from our political Left and Right flanks can the worst elements of our two parties be effectively neutralized.
A familiar origin
America was founded as a reboot. It was not pre-ordained to be a democratic republic with three branches of government and a Bill of Rights led by George Washington. It was by necessity that those details came later, in an environment free of the domineering and divisive influence of Great Britain.
As Benjamin Franklin would say to the increasingly agitated delegates gathered in Philadelphia, “We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
In common cause, Unity 2020 is a reboot. Lost as we are as a nation, it’s a chance to meet at an agreed upon safe location where we can reaffirm our shared ideals and plot the path forward as one.
To exclusionary Republican and Democratic policy proposals, we counter with the promise of a conversation, one in which Americans from all backgrounds, varied talents, and beliefs will participate. To winner-take-all political gamesmanship, we offer a seat at the table for your values, without regard to party affiliation or ideology.
From humble beginnings
On July 2nd, 1776, two days before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Lee Resolution was unanimously adopted by 12 of the 13 original colonies, with New York abstaining. The first formal step toward independence, it was that day, a Tuesday, that John Adams predicted in a letter to his wife Abigail would be, “the most memorable epoch in the history of America”.
In appearance, the document is decidedly unimpressive, looking more like constitutional scratch paper than a resolution for independence. The word “united” is jotted above the opening line with a caret indicating where it should’ve been written in the first place.
Yet that humble-looking document contained the germ of revolution which would soon usher in a new era of government by the people and for the people. From similarly humble origins, Unity 2020 seeks to begin anew, unburdened by the politics of the past.
“Resolved, That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”
Where will a Unity White House lead the country?
On Thursday the 4th of July, 1776, fifty-six representatives of the American colonies signed their names to the better known and more beautifully penned Declaration of Independence.
What exactly were they signing up for? Nowhere in either the Lee Resolution or the Declaration is there a plan for establishing a particular form of government. There are no policy objectives. No paths to victory. No candidates for new leadership. No platform. The Articles of Confederation wouldn’t exist for another year and a half. And it would be another decade before the Constitution would help us “form a more perfect Union”.
You might ask, as many do now of Unity 2020, “What did they stand for?”
More than anything, those 56 Americans knew what they did not want and what they could no longer tolerate as a free people. Twenty-seven grievances detailing “a history of repeated injuries and usurpations” at the center of the document give no indication of a preference for the Whig or Tory political parties of that period. Neither would do, as neither the Republicans nor the Democrats will do for us now.
In 1776 our founders set aside their political differences for a higher truth and a chance at a new beginning. Today the course of history has issued you the same challenge. Will you unite as one nation and finally refuse to wear the yoke these parties have fixed around your neck? Can you?
“a division of the republic into two great parties … is to be dreaded as the great political evil.” -John Adams
We were warned this day would come
Like our founders before us, we cannot afford to be distracted by philosophical differences comparatively petty to the greater cause of emancipating ourselves from the two-party system we call “the duopoly”.
If you’re like most Americans, you belong to one of these two political parties. And every four years, you are conned into believing that if only your candidate could win the White House, the issues you care about might finally get a fair hearing.
But you are no longer the constituent of these two parties. You have been replaced by any number of special interests who see to it that good ideas always die on the vine so that progress is permanently stunted in order to maintain the current power structure.
If you’re like most Americans, you’re tired of being pitted against one another by a complicit media that amplifies the voices of the most unreasonable on either side and tells us this is an accurate representation of our society. You’re tired of party scheming that rewards loyalty over virtue or merit.
In his farewell address, George Washington warned, “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.”
If you’re like most Americans, Washington’s words accurately describe the situation we find ourselves in today. Our enemies, foreign and domestic, see it too. Blood in the water, the sharks have begun to circle.
You have one chance to shock the world and reclaim what is rightfully yours so that America can once again stand united as an unparalleled source for good in the world. You have one opportunity to reignite the cooperative dynamism that once made America the envy of the world.
Will you deliver?
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