While a majority of US voters have spoken - our collective
voice wasn't necessarily heard around the world. Some states repudiated
Republican governors while their statehouse majorities tried to gerrymander
themselves into perpetual power - with long GOP Senate seat flipped
to Democrats. Some they didn't expect. It’s now clear that a
new American majority of voters said "Hell no”! No to the authoritarian
abuses of Trump and his toddies that did his bidding. In January, Democrats
will have power in Congress and two thirds of US states to make clear what that
power must be used for.
Will they have the courage and the wisdom to put tethers
uniting socialism and capitalism into a new form of democracy. A
functional system reframed into actually achieve the seven intentions within
the preamble of the U.S. Constitution, “We the People of the United
States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure
domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general
Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do
ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of
America" -- instead of just hoping and praying.
Enough of policy makers and the media using ambiguous words
to engineer and report on a just and sustainable balance between freedom and
security. Then work feverously using that comprehensive and holistic
system based on "Truths" that we should all hold "to be
self-evident". Like protecting the 30 specific human rights the
world agreed to in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Plus
protecting nature's environmental systems that all life on this goldilocks planet
needs to survive, thrive and flourish.
Enough of our mental delusion that we, our states, and all
nations are "independent". That belief we've all agreed on,
does not exist in our irreversibly interdependent world. We must infuse
into minds the fundamental principle that, “Everything is connected,
everything is interdependent, so everything is vulnerable.... And that’s why
this has to be a more than whole of government, a more than whole of nation
[effort]. It really has to be a global effort....” Jen Easterly. CISA
director. Oct. 29, 2021. The Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency is
our nation’s newest federal agency established by the Trump Administration in
2018. And it was hacked early in 2025.
We must grasp the reality that cyber security and
biosecurity are both oxymorons (just as MAGA voters who elected Trump twice are
megamorons.)
The real game changer? US foreign policy must prioritize
achieving the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals, unfortunately few US
citizens have heard of. When you say SDGs, they think you’ve said
STDs. We can only hope the concept of achieving the SDGs spreads as fast an
STD.
The SDGs were globally agreed to after long debates within
the UN in 2015 by hundreds of issue specialists and government
representatives. The 17 goals were to be achieved by 2030, as
comprehensive, holistic, and synergistic approach to preventing most
of the threats humanity now faces. Just as the 1948 UDHR, had intended after World
War II. No more wars, genocides, or use
of WMD. But the UN was never given the
power to enforce them. Now however, with AI's assistance we might be able
to achieve most of them by 2030. By buying them.
In June 2023, Bank of America Chair & CEO,
Brian Moynihan spoke on the state of the economy, the U.S. financial system,
and capitalism. He said, ‘the SDGs will cost approximately’ “$6 trillion
annually”. “Governments are too debt burdened” and “charity is insufficient”.
“Business leaders” “like the oil companies” and others must step up and
prioritize a balancing of ‘short-term gains’ with ‘long term interests’.
‘Profits must be good for business and society all the way down to the
community level’. “Capitalism” “requires a greater purpose than making more
profit.” Neither capitalism or profit making is sustainable without these SDG
goals being achieved.' C-span covered this interview hosted by the City
Club of Cleveland. Program ID: 529044-1 https://www.c-span.org/video/?529044-1/bank-america-ceo-remarks-city-club-cleveland
“We
are called to be the architects of tomorrow. Not its victims.” R.
Buckminster Fuller
