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The Handbook for Political and Cultural Change

2024- The Handbook for Political and Cultural Change

This book has specific proposals for meaningful change and how to achieve them. The book is essential for any student, activist, or citizen who wants to engage in designing a world that more closely reflects the values we hold today. It addresses problems in the election process, problems with capital and labor by advocating all workers have a living wage with disposable income among other changes. For consumers it places caps on interest rates, advocates product guarantees for quality and satisfaction as well as optional universal healthcare for those who want it. It uses a flat tax for revenue collection that is lower than today's tax rates and caps the total tax burden at 35 percent for working people. There is a tax freeze at the current levels for the working class and a wealth tax that is devoted to helping those among us who struggle.

On the international front there are proposals for freezing the borders, demilitarization, a ban on WMDs, and a system of checks and balances to limit rogue nations from being capable of engaging in armed conflicts. It advocates software programs that will enable people to communicate directly with one another on a local basis as well as internationally and much more.


Primary Goals in The Book:

End poverty, hunger, and war
 End human violence and exploitation
 Provide the basics required to live
 Build a worldwide middle class

... and organize society within civility, the
common good, and for human progress.

The book focuses on practical ways to
establish consumer protections and
worker changes along with ending
inequality, oppression, exploitation and
much more.

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Designing a World We Would Like to Live In...

The American Dream should be restored and America should be number one in the issues important to a vibrant middle class. We want both government and commerce to focus on middle class ideals.

America should be among the countries with the highest standard of living for it's people. The government should also protect the citizens from the elements of the society that would oppress or exploit citizens. As the richest country ever to be on earth, America should not have a underclass of people.

America is a capitalist society, but the ultimate goal of our society should not be to achieve a perfect free enterprise system but to achieve human progress. Therefore companies must also be good citizens and must have a social conscience in partnering with workers, treating customers equitably, and not ruining the earth or overly consuming our natural resources. Worker incomes should be among the highest in the world in relative terms where citizens enjoy a wide margin of disposable income.

In the modern era, individual citizens can not represent themselves adequately against well organized business with vast corporations so the government shall need to protect the people as workers, customers, and general citizens.

Workers need to be assured of receiving a living wage and have disposable income. There should be caps on borrowing rates and caps on other items where free enterprise has not keep costs down and wages up.
In other areas, housing and other basics items should be available and affordable. Quality healthcare must be universally available and at a cost in line with what of the other countries in the world. This can be done through government, quasi government, or by private providers. Learning should be an important part of daily society and higher education should be affordable and competitive in terms of both quality and price when compared to other countries in the world. These are just some of the things that America should reach for in a changing world. Having a land of millionaires is not enough to sustain the country in a modern world. Other countries are making great strides toward human progress and America can not afford to be left behind.


Progressive People Must Get Involved

As destructive power increases it is essential that we become a more reasonable people. Currently too many able people sit on the sidelines while the governments around the world are directed by special interests, by fear mongers, and by alarmist. Modern and forward thinking people need to become more involved and more outspoken. If you cannot do take part to raise others out of the human struggle then do it to keep backward thinking people from regressing society. Consider that the world is just one suitcase bomb away from self destruction. Certainly, it does take some effort but you will be surprised how few people it takes to make a difference.


These are Things We Can Do Together

These are admirable goals that would make a difference and are they achievable with one essential ingredient. It takes effort. If you want a better world people will need to band together at home and abroad. My book tells you how to do it or at least it projects ideal and proposals that could lead to human progress. Somewhere in my writings you will come across elements you have not considered before. It is worth the read.

Moving Humanity to the Next Level in Human Development

1-The Basis of Human Cooperation. There are three philosophical foundations for modern people to live by: The Common Good, The Common Benefit, and Civility.

2- A Less Commercial Society. The object of a society is not to build individual wealth but to build a robust middle class although there will continue to be those who are exceedingly prosperous. The United States is often the center of change but it is essential for this to be worldwide.

3- Socially Responsible Capitalism. In the new world the minimum wage should be three times the poverty level. In the U.S. there will be a cap on credit rates as was the case until the 1950's. In the U.S. a new program for private universal healthcare will receive government funds until it is self sufficient in exchange for providing care for Medicaid and the non-insured. Stocks will be taxed at 2 percent to pay for higher education as well as a lottery where the proceeds go to pay of college debt. There will be fewer TV commercials with two break periods that last no more than five minutes per half hour. Corporations, particularly large chain stores and industries, will be offered tax incentives to bring their employees into company ownership.

4-Methods to Move People Out of Poverty. The book outlines several programs from company incentives to hiring those on welfare, offering other forms of assistance to help people become self-sufficient and guiding everyone into a middle class living.

5-Limitation on Taxes. The working class will not bear the burden for these changes proposed in this book. New programs are not paid for with income taxes. No individual will pay more than 35 percent as a total of their annual taxes including the combined total of federal, state, and local taxes. The ultra rich will also share in these tax limits but one day there my be caps on super wealth while poverty and starvation exists in the world.

6- A New Political Arena. Elected officials have to record all conversations and correspondence with any person, group, or company that has made political contributions. We must, bring back the Fairness Doctrine. It will resolve many current divisions. To exchange views we must be able to communicate so we must have coast to coast internet and phone reception. This should be true worldwide, too. On some days it may seem like the amount of false information is not worth the the open ended communications but in the end it is essential part of arriving into the new world for all people to have a voice in world discussions.

7-The Big Picture. Based on the three foundations of human organization listed above we must place all emphasis on becoming a non-violent people, a non violent human race. We must make the momentous move away from human exploitation in all its forms. We will need to urge countries to jump forward from culture tendencies that have prevented human progress. There should not be any mass poverty or mass hunger. All individuals must be equal in the eyes of the society and the law. In this day and age all children, all people in fact, must have a shelter from the elements, food to eat, and the other basics needed to survive. Helping others is what makes us human.

8- The age old problem of war. Restricting countries through public and commercial pressure, countries should no longer have ambitions beyond their own borders. All militaries should be defensive in nature and we should keep pushing for denuclearization as well as a removal of all WMDs including landmines mines and much more.

9- Ecology. It is time to return to an interest in preserving the planet for future generations. Our children and future generations will need clean water, air, and land to continue to flourish as a species.

10- Animal Rights. I do understand most of us are socialized at a young age to want meat as a center piece of any meal but it is not civilized and it is not necessary. In fact, it cost more in energy and it is more harmful to the environment to do so. If humans did not eat meat there would be plentiful food for the world's population and the environment would be markedly better. Additionally, if people cared not to kill animals then perhaps they would be more hesitant to kill humans. It is part of leaving human violence behind in our evolution. It is part of reaching that next level of advancement.

Jim Davis, Author


The latest book, "The Handbook for Political and Cultural Change" lists my proposals in the brief style that many people have asked requested. Brevity is the modern way. The "Paradise" book does spell out my ideals in a longer form and with more background. 'The Political Handbook' for short has the ideas and ideals in the progressive side of the street has been lacking lately. The Handbook will certainly get the politically interested person thinking about the possibilities for a new and better world. It has something for everyone, even conservatives. Conservatives are not wrong all the time and we have to move together as a group. All sides will need to be vested.

My writings center on what I call a 'trilogy of ideals' for human advancement that I collectively call Jimism. The "Paradise" book along with other previous writings cover two of those ideals (the common good and the common benefit) by centering on change in American political and economic policies and on fairness, equity, and developing a vibrant middle class. The Political Handbook is a more cryptic book listing many proposals and ideals to bring forth the human progress discussed in the Paradise book and more.

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