I said I would post some more of my ideas on additional patches necessary post-Reboot so here they are. These are all just rough ideas, still in the spit-balling stage, so if you find problems with them or have suggestions to make them more workable, I’m all ears. Hit me up on X (@gkmasterson).
Patching the immigration exploits
Look, we all know, red, blue, and purple, what the game really is with immigration. The blue states want to use the old Southern exploits to game the House and Electoral college so that they can just run the whole country without any pipsqueak state like Arkansas or Montana pointing out reality. It’s not about virtue or compassion; it’s a power grab.
So, we need to do additional post-reboot patches to the Fourteenth Amendment and to the Apportionment Clause. We need to add that “under the jurisdiction thereof” in the Fourteenth means “is either a lawful long-term resident or citizen” and that only citizens count for apportionment.
Building a more resilient culture/skill network on the right
I love TPUSA. They do great work reaching out to kids in college and getting them to consider something other than Marxism (which I think needs to be destroyed so hard it becomes a new Carthage — remembered only in story). But, they are a single point of failure. It’s a large institution with funding that can be threatened. We’re seeing that right now with what’s going on with Candace Owens.
So, let’s build a peer-to-peer network in the real world instead. Yes, we can use online tools to do meetups and whatnot, but no big funding, no glossy website. Just a bunch of GenXers who remember the analog world teaching Zoomers how to change the oil in their car and then drinking beer and telling them how to spot the rug-pulls like NAFTA. Boomers and Milennials who get it are also welcome but, this time, GenX and GenZ call the shots.
I call it the X/Z Alliance or #XZA. And, if the reboot doesn’t happen? Well, we turn the XZA into the XZodus and all go fishing for a few months. Make sure you read up on how to build water-powered turbines or stock up on solar panels, though.
Fixing the money issue
For ages, money was pegged to gold or silver because it was rare, portable, and easily stamped. We went off that standard (for arguably good reasons) in the 70s and swapped to the petro-dollar. The problem is that there are too many players in the petro market who have used it to hold us hostage. So, maybe we start looking at something else.
My idea is to tie currency to electrical power generation and transmission. If each dollar equaled X amounts of joules, it would give power companies an incentive to build more power plants and maintain the lines better because those turn into goldmines. It would also gives incentives favoring hardening the grid against solar attacks and protecting it from cyberattacks.
It needs better meters, more honest ones, and probably needs someone who has more of a background in this to figure out how to make it work. But I view that as an engineering problem, not a “breaking the laws of physics” problem.
Stopping the short term thinking
This one really gets on my nerves. So much of our economic and political focus is on short-term time frames. Quarterly reports, the next election cycle, the 24-hour news cycle… it’s stupid and it’s causing us to be penny-wise but pound foolish. We need to start shifting the incentives to focus on long-term viability. Instead of thinking about how to generate maximum profit this quarter, we also need to focus on how to ensure that there is still a profitable company in a decade. Fudiciary responsibility should encompass both.
This would also apply to cultural contexts. Right now, the right is pretty much turning its back on young women the same way the left is turning theirs on young men. Right-leaning media companies need to realize that women are not defective men and that they need to employ strategies to reach them. My idea is to do a bunch of soap operas (because that kind of entertainment does well with women) with a very subtle right-leaning message woven into the background.
Deweaponizing Government
I don’t know about you, but I am so sick and tired of every national election feeling like it’s the end of the world. I pretty much have to vote Republican because the Democrats keep using lawfare to put anyone to the right of Chairman Mao in prison or to deprive them of their rights.
That needs to stop. My proposal involves both the Immigration Exploit patch and a patch to the judiciary. This one would have to be an amendment since it involves changing and restructuring the federal court system. Roughly laid out, it would work like this:
The Supreme Court is capped at one justice per Federal Circuit court. In the event of there being an even number of circuits, the Chief Justice vacates his position as head of his circuit and instead becomes only the leader of the Supreme Court while another justice is appointed to head the now-empty circuit. Supreme Court justices would have the power to fire any judge in their circuit for cause. This would stop the threats to pack the Supreme Court and would add another way to get rid of judges who are legislating from the bench.
The next thing I’d love to see done is campaign finance reform. I don’t want to limit the amount of money since that keeps failing or they keep finding ways around it. Instead, I would say that you can only accept funds from people or businesses physically located in your district. No more Disney-bought Senators from Utah. No more Microsoft-owned Representatives from Florida. No more NYC Reps backed by money from overseas. You can only raise funds from your district.
If the Democrats keep threatening to add new states (DC and Puerto Rico), then I would suggest the Republicans use their majority to give DC back to Maryland and grant Puerto Rico independence. If that fails (and it very well may because they’re all a bunch of cowards), then in the post-Reboot era, we let the Democrats do that but they have to let us add two new states as well.
Eastern California can become the new state of Jefferson and East Oregon and Washington can become the great state of GetStuffedaho. Here’s my suggestion for a possible flag for one of these new states:
I’d also love to see an amendment (and maybe this should be part of the reboot amendment) that forced Congress to do single-issue bills only. No omnibus bills. Update: 12/17 – I actually moved this to the main Reboot proposal itself after lots of people pointed out that new laws could too easily turn into 10k+ page omnibus bills to try to get around the Plain Language Clause.
Lastly, we do kind of have to bite the bullet and admit that too many states are gaming the federal election system. That means a new federal-level bureaucracy to conduct only federal elections. It would be required to verify citizen with the federal government before it allowed a person to vote. We’ll probably also have to keep parts of the Department of Transportation like the FMCSA to ensure that commercial, interstate licenses are issued only to people who actually know how to drive big rigs. I’d argue that these are legitimate functions of the federal government and that, in the cases where we have let the states run things (CDLs and voting), too many states are not being responsible with them.
Anyhow, these are just a few things I’d like to toss out there for after the Reboot. If you have your own ideas, feel free to share them and send them to me!