To all Americans,

Imagine our current government as an old home; cockroaches infest the cupboards, mold grows unchecked in the bathrooms, the roof leaks with every storm, and it all rests on a fractured foundation. Everyone you love is living inside of this decaying home, one built centuries ago, one teetering on the verge of collapse. It is impossible to say which wall will fall first or which storm will blow the house down, but it is obvious that disaster is immanent. It does not make sense to repair a house as rotten as ours. Unless we move to a new home, structural collapse and acute tragedy are inevitable. Oh, and there is a fire in the kitchen. We are in grave danger, but everyone is too distracted and disorganized to do anything about our precarious predicament. We all agree that something is wrong, but what is wrong, and how to fix it, are impossibly difficult questions to answer, far beyond the capacity of any one person or organization.

Of the countless paths open to us, I believe that organizing and broadcasting a Constitutional Convention is the best one. We bring some of the best minds in the Union together to design and debate the structure of the next iteration of our great democratic experiment, livestreaming the discussions of our delegates so that “We the People” can criticize, comment, and cheer from the safety and comfort of our homes. This plan would generate an enormous amount of data regarding the ever-invoked “Will of the People”, allow our foremost experts to teach the American People about their specific niche of expertise, and provide a unifying narrative for the nation as a whole. By combining executive direction, subject matter expertise, and public feedback, I believe we can design the best government, the best home, in the world.

We must accept that our Constitution can no longer meet the demands of a modern, digital society and that fully replacing it is absolutely necessary for our safety and happiness. Until we regain control of our government, the one that has been hijacked by soulless corporations and callous aristocrats, life for all of us just gets worse. The things upon which all our lives depend, the colossal environmental, economic, and political systems that affect all of us are all failing simultaneously; and they are failing because our government is corrupt to its core. Until we fix our fundamental problem, until we regain control over our government, life for us just keeps getting worse: prices will keep rising, the culture war will keep intensifying, and the rule of law will keep breaking down. We are out of time. We must act now.

My dream is not to make our Union great again, my dream is to make our Union greater than ever. I believe this dream has the power to create a singularity of hope that reunites our fragmented, polarized population; and my sincere, unflinching, immensely powerful hope is that this dream becomes your own, and that in turn, you help it become the unifying story for our distressed, oppressed, depressed citizenry.

Best wishes,
Marcos Bonmatí Conner

“These are the times that try men's souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
Thomas Paine