u/DarkGreenIre

There’s this short book probably little read that’s worth looking to in these dark days, fellows. It’s on William Tyler Page’s “American’s Creed”, a short statement of the American political faith or aspiration inspired by the Christian Apostle’s Creed. The book has many gems of explanation on the meaning of the American’s Creed. Early on, for instance, the people must be “trained in sound judgement otherwise loud men will seize power in their name.” Also that the “principle of self-government goes forth from self-control.” Has anyone here seen this book?

I came up with this a year ago as a revision to the Pledge of Allegiance for our political condition:

I pledge allegiance
to the Republic
of the United States of America
and to each other’s Natural Rights
Our Constitution,
Our Star-Spangled Banner,
and our Lands flourishing and common well

One nation, indivisible;
Living **only**
by that endeavor
of Liberty and Justice for All.

The uncomfortable truth is that our very nation has been consumed, skinned, and worn as a taxidermic corpse by the connected and billionaire elites. Trump is a reflection of this while posturing as an unpredictable rebel. His skills of personality or negotiation will not create a “Golden Age” and has not. Let alone he stokes racial tensions and hatred against immigrants. I see Solarpunk, although simply an online aesthetic, as perhaps the proper form aesthetically for a new civic revival. There has to be a change of heart within the people that might be precipitated or influenced by this view of interspersing nature and human society.
I can’t say I have the heart to fully articulate this new American Ecological Republic or some vision thereof. But I thought I’d put the idea out there. The ideals of America from the standpoint of civics—Liberty, Justice, and Human Dignity—are not the problems. The problem is our leaders, our will, our heart’s aspirations, and our judgement—or at least mine. The protection of our ecosystems and the future sustainability of our communities is an obligation of carrying out Justice. We can encourage solar-punk society through this at least in part of the U.S.. These are duties of our government, but also of our historically highest purposes. Maybe this has all been said in other places and in other ways to little effect, but I wonder what people make of this approach?