Systems can work when they're actually designed for people. Take Baltimore for example, the city cut homicides 59% in 3.5 years — not with magic, but with a real, community-led plan.
So we're building an alternative. Not a party. Not a manifesto. A growing set of concrete ideas for:
Helping parents raise kids without burning out
Meeting basic needs first & climbing Maslow's Hierarchy
Unlearning the addictions — sugar, opioids, violence — that were deliberately engineered into our lives for profit
This isn't about blaming or waiting for saviors. It's about communities that protect each other, starting with evidence and ending with action.
Our research shows that a government that serves The People
would commit to these 9 things:
Enable childhood to be a launchpad, not a fight.
Maximize exposure to 7 Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) — the positive relationships and safe environments that help kids thrive.
Shield children.
Minimize exposure to 10 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) — the traumas and stressors that damage long-term health and stability.
Ensure no parent or guardian has to do it alone.
Give heads of households 2–6 hours of daily support — childcare, tutoring, supervision — so raising children isn't a solo survival sport.
No one misses meals or sleeps unsafe.
Meet every person's Physiological and Safety needs first. Food, shelter, healthcare, freedom from harm (see Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs). In 2025 our GDP was over $31 trillion, we have enough for everyone!
Foster community - you need to belong before you can become.
Maximize access to Love & Belonging, Self-Esteem, and Self-Actualization — using Maslow's objective framework and each community's own definition of a good life.
Correct the addictions that weren't accidents.
Help people unlearn the self-destructive patterns that were deliberately taught and incentivized by past government powers for financial exploitation. Namely:
Addiction to sugar and other carcinogens
Addiction to violence and/or corruption of innocence
Addiction to drugs (particularly opioids - see data)
Stop guessing, measure what matters.
Conduct ongoing research on what actually makes citizens happy — and adjust systems based on proven patterns, not ideology or habit.
Address the warming ocean before it addresses us.
Educate, fund, and incentivize real practices to reverse the rise of ocean temperatures.
Plan for the worst day.
Research and build infrastructure to preserve life in mass during natural disasters.