A Candidacy Too Promising to Ignore

As of today, the next presidential election is 140 weeks away. Though this year’s mid-term elections may alter 2028’s political landscape, there are some special interests scheduled to win no matter which party predominates in Congress. It is precisely such interests which should have no influence whatsoever in government at any level, which is why voters should favorably consider the candidacy of Diane Sare, running for President of the United States in 2028.

Sare is a classically trained musician by profession, which means that for a living she skillfully combines melody and harmony to soothe her audience’s weary souls. Classical music in fact features prominently in her campaign appearances, as there is at least one choral work which Sare and her supporters perform (many of Sare’s supporters are drawn from the ensembles in which she plays). The music is not mere entertainment for attendees but rather an extension of the perspective guiding Sare’s candidacy, which is that of economist and geopolitical philosopher Lyndon LaRouche (1922 – 2019). As best I understand it, LaRouche and his adherents regard the world’s nation-states as musicians in an orchestra; such nations can play out of tune and rhythm with one another, or they can recognize their common humanity, unite along shared interests, and play in perfect euphony.

That sounds New Agey but consider the alternative. World War I (1914 – 1919) killed 15 million people between soldiers and civilians. Untold billions of dollars were poured into devising nastier ways to kill our fellow man and destroy one-of-a-kind infrastructure from humanity’s past, like medieval cathedrals and bridges of hand-laid timbre. Not having learnt the lesson the first time, within one generation humanity descended into World War II (1939 – 1945) which killed 65 million people, including millions in dedicated extermination camps. These conflicts are two extreme examples of what happens when we forget our common humanity and start playing out of tune with one another.

Fast forward to modern times, and our political leadership still recklessly flirts with worldwide conflict. Regularly we rattle sabres against Russia, China, or pick winners and losers in conflicts between Middle Eastern neighbors (Iran much?!). This leadership (referring in general to any administration, not just the current one) serves the special interests of the military-industrial complex and security apparatus, which commits us to needless military adventurism abroad and escalating panoptic surveillance at home. Sare is a candidate who understands that such interests need to be extirpated from government so that the USA can apply peace’s dividend to the development of civilian science and infrastructure. In such a context, the USA can channel its resources towards civilizational progress.

“Civilizational progress” is loftier language than I am wont to use, but I resort to such flourish because it best describes the plans which Sare has for her Administration. Sare recognizes that the current “Sustainability” Agenda (like that guided by the United Nations’ Agenda 2030) has siphoned trillions from productive taxpayers to subsidize politically-connected industries such as photovoltaic panelling and wind farms. These industries prove less effective and efficient in producing energy than technologies such as nuclear power. Thus, Sare will promote fourth-generation nuclear power to bridge the USA’s growing energy deficit. Fourth-generation nuclear is the safer kind since it suffers no meltdowns. It is also cleaner and cheaper, one example being the pebble-bed reactor which China debuted December 2023 in Shidao Bay. Another type is the liquid-fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs). Sare will promote also investment in health, education, and especially in infrastructure for transportation.

Sare’s infrastructural policy is not just about patching potholes in our interstate highways. She proposes some big-ticket, headline-catching multilateral projects such as the Bering Strait Tunnel to connect North America to Asia for commercial and personal railway travel. Aligning with her foreign policy of de-escalation towards peace, Sare wants to realize LaRouche’s Oasis Plan which would construct two networked irrigation canals through Israel and Palestine. That would give those two peoples a stake in a common, mutually beneficial goal of greening the desert whereby they may achieve better understanding of one another, if not reconciliation after generations of conflict.

However, a few planks of Sare’s platform have some splinters for us Libertarians. In the abstract, the idea of President Sare marshalling public resources towards the Bering Strait Tunnel’s construction sounds promising in that it could improve commerce between North America and Asia, but no one knows by how much commerce will be improved. Stated differently, if the governments of the USA and Russia were to sink $50 billion into this project, what’s to say that an exporter in Alaska won’t later find it preferable to ship his goods via maritime tanker or airliner? Sare wants to spearhead major infrastructural projects like President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal built the Hoover Dam, but if private capital is not naturally flowing towards a given allocation, that indicates the sector’s participants don’t see enough utility in that expenditure. Ironically, central economic planning of this sort is precisely how we got the ruinous Sustainability Agenda. A mordant example of that was President Barack Obama’s promotion of solar panelling by way of the Silicon Valley company Solyndra in 2010. In less than a year, Solyndra went bankrupt since there was insufficient demand (despite high upfront costs of manufacture and installation, even the latest photovoltaic panels only capture 22% of solar energy).

Nevertheless, we can’t get ourselves out of a crisis with the same mentality which got us into it. The USA has impoverished itself to the tune of nearly $40 trillion in national debt policing the world and over-surveilling our society. We need an innovative approach to these issues, and that is what Sare’s candidacy promises.

It’s still a long way to November 2028’s presidential election, but some truths can already be discerned from this distance in time. The legacy parties will cough up clowns as they always do, and the parties will guilt-trip their reluctant bases into voting for them by saying “if you don’t vote Clown A, then Clown B will win!”

I don’t know about you, but I’m done clowning around. Nothing less than the Republic is at stake, so it’s time to consider fresh options. And nothing’s fresher than attending a Sare rally and listening to a flawless live performance of Johannes Brahms’ “Schicksalied” instead of wincing through a legacy party rally belting out Toby Keith’s jingoistic “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue.”

In an election held today, I would happily vote Diane Sare for President!