I would like to thank everyone who has either read or shared anything I have said during this campaign. You are the strength of democracy. I hope I have provided some food for thought or changed something for the positive somewhere.
I would also like to reiterate some of the more important points that I hoped would create some dialogue about our very important future.
First, about twenty million people in the United States currently live in mobile or manufactured housing. If that share of the market were to shift over time toward off-grid tiny houses, with people renting space for those homes from other landowners, it could provide stability to the real estate market and stimulus to critical industries.
Hospitals, farms, supermarkets, and even residential landowners could benefit from hundreds of billions of dollars in rent, helping much of our economy survive in a future low-employment environment.
Next, I believe healthcare is a right. But it’s not number one by any stretch.
FOOD. Food is the most important issue facing Americans. The farms that produce the food, the practices they use, the farming techniques, the logistics systems, the marketing, and the dangers of the food industry preying on the American people, all of these are part of our number one priority.
Quality food is the first priority of a healthy people.
We can use the power of SNAP to affect real change. We can use financial stimulus by shifting our existing farm subsidies toward regenerative farming initiatives. And we can use a symbiotic relationship between tiny homes and small farms to give regenerative farming a fighting chance.
Evidence of this already working can be found on Harvest Hosts, but it is nowhere near as powerful as it could be if we were to give this kind of initiative public support.
This image shows all the farms currently hosting tiny houses for short stays. Many of them are restricted from renting for longer stays due to zoning restrictions. They are represented by the purple bubbles:
Finally, LIFE.
We need to end the wars. We can become a peaceful people. We can stop letting the powerful prey on the weak. And we can ask ourselves if free and unfettered abortion until the moment of birth is really the hallmark of a free and peaceful people, or if it is the height of cynicism. There are other ways of protecting pregnant women in crisis pregnancies. That is, if we pull away from extremes.
We can use ideas. We can stop using red and blue to define us. We can get into the mix and hash out our collective mindset without attempting to curbstomp our supposed political enemies.
Some conservatives have supported LGBTQ rights along the way. Some liberals have supported lower taxes or responsible gun ownership.
When we stop throwing stones and when we stop predicting Armageddon if the “other side” wins, we get back to the practice of being American.
America is less a noun than a verb. It’s an action. It’s a way of dealing with fear, with change, and with differences of opinion.
We aren’t using that verb very much these days.
These last few months have been fun.
America is fun when we give it a chance.
If you want to change the world, hit me up at:
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