We need, like, a department of gettin' laid ... and stuff.
Posted on 07/28/2019 2:56:26 PM PDT by SMGFan
Establish a U.S. Department of Peace
A U.S. Department of Peace is a major step in dismantling America's systemically entrenched culture of violence. I want to talk to you about waging peace.
From millions of chronically traumatized children to mass incarceration to family separation at the border, the United States has no more serious problem than the problem of violence itself.
And yet, even as the current administration starves the international peace-building capacities of the State Department, we have no federal platform from which to seriously wage peace domestically.
We need both.
Through support of my candidacy for president of the United States, you can help alter the course of our nation and model peace for our world.When I become president, I will establish a U.S. Department of Peace.
This campaign to establish a U.S. Department of Peace is the first step in dismantling our systemically entrenched perpetuation of violence. And it is critical.
Our current administration actively cuts peace-building programs that are statistically proven to increase the incidence of peace and reduce conflict, despite their efficacy. These programs represent expanded economic opportunities for women, expanded educational opportunities for children, reduction of violence against women, and the amelioration of unnecessary human suffering wherever possible.
We should see large groups of desperate people as a national security risk. In doing right by our fellow human beings, we will pave the way to a better world.
I believe Americans are ready to do the right thing.
This is why I will make peace-creation a signature of my presidency. Sign today if you agree that there should be a US Department of Peace.
Our country's priorities are clearly reflected in our budget. The Defense Department has a military budget of $718 billion – almost larger than that of all other nations combined – while our State Department budget – including all peace-creation agencies – is $40 billion. The independent U.S. Institute of Peace has a budget of only $36.8 million.
As president, I will make the relationship between the State Department and the Department of Defense a robust partnership. And I will build up the peace-building agencies within the State Department in a major way.
Domestically, we need to similarly disrupt patterns of violence. Join me in support for building a U.S. Department of Peace to address issues of peace-building here at home – trauma-informed education, community wrap-around services, restorative justice, conflict resolution, mindfulness in the schools, violence prevention programs, and more.
When I am president, the world will know that America's greatest ally is humanity itself. Let us restore our position as a moral leader both here and abroad. Far more Americans love than hate, but we must display our love with a renewed commitment and serious conviction. Together, we can and we will.
With love for all, Marianne
We need, like, a department of gettin' laid ... and stuff.
... and?
Dept of Kumbaya?
She reminds me of Marshall Applewhite(The Heavens Gate cult leader) crazy eyes..once she says we all need to go to the Hail Bop comet everyone run
Roughly 50% of the murders in the US are committed by 6% of the population which is a part of the 18% of a specific minority. Why don’t you start there first?
Department of Love
YES YES YES!
With sub-departments of Tolerance, Inclusion, Diversity and Multiculturalism!
Democrats and progressives are already so great at all those...
...scuse me while I barf...
Peter Max returns.
Has she not seen our deficit? We need to shutter government agencies, not add more.
If you merge the Department of Peace with the Department of Education......do you get DOPE?
Spank her “new age” butt!
You could shutter all the USG agencies and we’re still headed over a financial cliff! Discretionary spending, that is spending to run the government to do both good & bad things is like only 30% of the budget. The rest of the budget is entitlements, payments on debt and other “have-to-pay”. Entitlements etc. are rising not falling with every budget, someday it will be the whole budget.
And yes “The Department of Peace” is stupid, wasteful & irrational on a dozen different levels! It’s “high intellect” for Rat-Land!
The Natural Law Party, also, had in its platform the creation of The Department of Peace.
My mind is made up....ANYTHING THE LEFT PROPOSES is going to be a detriment to society.
This is why Republicans need to keep contributing to her campaign so she’ll continue to qualify for the Democrat debates.
She could start the department of ‘retarded ideas that don’t really work’.
A couple of decades ago they sold peacenik bumper stickers on campuses:
Abolish the Defense Dept budget --Let them have the bake sales to raise money.
Lamebrained naïve fools. Will good vibes keep the Chicoms and Russians from bombing us while we chant slogans?
We already have that ---the Democrat Party. Please read the New Green Deal pamphlet.
Gee, that culture of violence is basically in America’s cities, and didn’t really exist until c50 years ago.
What else started 50 years ago? What has started since then that has failed to do anything to help?
My day is complete. Marianne loves me. And she doesn’t even know me. That takes talent.
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