A Letter to a Uniter

Dear Jim,

Apologies for not getting back to you sooner. As you well know, it’s been quite an eventful year getting the Unity Party of America moving forward again, after my year-long unsuccessful attempt to walk away from the party I created and allow my creation to move on without me. For better or worse, it’s been made crystal clear that there’s no other “me” in the Unity Party or on the horizon, so here we are.

Since you asked, please allow me to answer question #2 in a fair amount of detail:

I don’t know if I’m necessarily a “visionary” type (perhaps I am, insofar as I prefer to envision the next step before I take it), but I’ll do my best to lay out where I see in 2028 the party I co-founded in 2004.

All of the world’s problems today are global problems. Much like the only-slightly-more-distant threat of Artificial Intelligence, the Climate Change that threatens us all is being fueled in all countries on this planet, and all countries on this planet must unite to solve it. The immigration problems in the Americas and Europe are, at least in part, being fueled by that same Climate Change, but, regardless, building walls along borders is for Little Dutch Boys. Daybreak isn’t coming on its own, and we need to acknowledge the reality that the problems in other countries need to be solved in other countries.

Foreign aid is a gimmick, doesn’t work in normal times (see: Afghanistan), and certainly won’t make a difference in the face of 21st century problems. The European Union is a noble-yet-failed attempt to bring peace to the most war-torn of continents; the Greek Debt Crisis showed clearly that international unification isn’t something you half-ass; either you create a new nation out of a collection of countries working in political, monetary and fiscal union, or you don’t; on this point one can’t have it both ways.

The Unity Party of America is at an interesting crossroads. Forget about the movie Civil War; a current civil war is being fought to the bitter end between the trudging carriers of the Unity torch and those who erroneously see themselves as constructive visionaries capable of uniting others.

Yet the very name “Unity Party,” and particularly the full name “Unity Party of America,” by dint of their very symmetry and ring, have refused and will always refuse to die, now that they’ve been born. Multiple organizations connected with multiple blue-chip Presidential campaigns, including those who’ve plagiarized that other creation “Not Right. Not Left. Forward,” have acknowledged as much.

As long as the Unity Party of America refuses to die, I refuse to quit (at least not again, now that I see things the way they are). It’s obvious that we must move forward; the only question is “Forward how?”

The “how” is beyond American shores, literally. Speaking of walls, America has hit its own wall, something akin to the Ice Wall from Game of Thrones. It is an ideological wall, of course, but a wall nonetheless. There’s no way through or over this wall, but only around it. And the only way around a wall is beyond its borders, thus America’s borders.

Much like the Roman Empire began to fade once it ceased its ceaseless expansion, the United States began to fade once it took the same turn. The Fabulous Fifties ended with the statehoods of Alaska and Hawaii, and many would argue this nation has had nothing but problems ever since. Our Manifest Destiny is in our blood, and, much like the Romans the Founding Fathers very much desired to emulate, we are either growing or dying as a nation; there is no middle ground.

No middle ground? That leads me to the word “Unitism,” which hereby, at least in my mind, replaces Centrism as the philosophy connected with the Unity Party. Unitism is a word first coined in 1839 (per the Oxford English Dictionary), but, also according to the OED, a word virtually never used since (only 0.01 times per 1,000,000 words used in English). Well, now Unitism will be used going forward, used to denote the idea of bringing people, states, nations together for the good of the greater whole, to end conflict, division, wars, inhumanity and the like. Ever since the days of Plato we’ve known that evil is not a reality in and of itself, but merely the absence of Good, and Unitism is here to promote Good.

What does Unitism mean in practical terms? It means working to promote unity, at home, abroad, and between. It means, among other things, ending the AI-fueled gerrymandering that is making government ungovernable and which is only accelerating. It means finally passing a Balanced Budget Amendment and capping the national debt that will one day divide generations (not to mention future taxpayers from their wallets). It means imposing Term Limits to bring in fresh blood not cemented in places of power by ossified connections. I should point out these are all things I and the party have been advocating for decades, and we’ve only been proven entirely correct, if not prescient.

Speaking of new blood, we need to bring in new blood from overseas, or, more accurately, mint new Americans. The business community should instantly see the value of the removal of economic barriers; if the EU has largely been a failure, the Schengen Area has certainly not been. Note that I wrote “economic,” to address the “Polish Plumber” question, it would only be reasonable to keep some internal borders in place for some periods of time, until new US states are brought up to speed.

Naturally, many American conservatives will be aghast upon reading the above. True Conservatives should be more than reassured (enthused, if they have their thinking caps on) by the idea of an opportunity to promote strong, strong, strong States’ Rights and a strict adherence to the Tenth Amendment. New states around the world, their hundreds of US Senators and Representatives, birthplaces of cultures more different from that of the American heartland than many can imagine, will find common cause with the original Conservatives in their defense of culture through Constitution.

Forget about that other abysmal talking-shop failure that’s the United Nations, and its list of 190-something members. The CIA’s list of 262 polities around the world might not be a bad rough blueprint for a future United States. A Senate including 600 or so Senators (once the size of the Roman Senate), and a US House, pried loose from its AI logjam with dramatically redrawn districts across the board, with perhaps a 1,000 Representatives, a number capped by an Amendment to the Constitution.

“Nations Without Borders” could be yet another new slogan, and the Unity Party of America could start with the Unity Party of Germany (has a particularly nice ring to it, don’t you think?). It just so happens I’m a 100% American who was born in the small city of Bad Kreuznach, Germany (while my father was stationed there). Think of the UPG/UPD (we’ll figure out the English/German ratios later) as a model for future Unity Parties around the world, and a notice that the Unity Party of America means business.

Some might think all of the above a bit too forward-looking. I’ve leaned forward before, and the results have generally been more good than bad (it seems that, so far in 2024, everyone, from prominent would-be Presidents on down, wants to partake of the Unity Party of America: name, logo, ballot access; everything that I’ve created) . You asked, my fellow Uniter, and there you have it. Forward UP.