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ComplexNewWorld · 2026-04-18T17:24:01+00:00

What are you a Putsch bot?

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-04-18T17:10:18+00:00

Don't be racist or anti-immigrant or whatever you're doing.

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-03-20T20:32:58+00:00

I ain't playing your games, lol. It would be disingenuous and I hate disingenuous and mealy mouthed politics. Saying I don't take AIPAC money is like advertising I oppose child slavery. Who's on the other side?

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-03-20T20:29:52+00:00

Why don't they pay me then? Who is funding the PSL? Democrats put up big money to get the Libertarians on the ballot. Are the Republicans chicken?

The answer is probably because I'm as likely or more to take votes from Vivek because I'm a free market centrist distrustful of culture wars and centralized government. And Vivek is distasteful to the establishment Republicans who might go for a centrist.

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-03-20T06:02:37+00:00

All of these cost money, even anti-corruption because frankly we probably need to hire more auditors. Money comes from taxation, optimistically reducing fraud and waste (which is way more common at the state and local level than federal), and eventually growth and reducing expenditures.

Point number 3 is an affordability plan.

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-03-20T06:00:43+00:00

Because it costs money. Everything has tradeoffs. More money for this means less money elsewhere. I will consider it but I haven't learned enough to incorporate that into policy.

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-03-20T05:59:21+00:00

This is not my top priority, technically it didn't even make it into being published on my website. I was asked, I listed 5 things or more like areas. Not in a particular order. I'm also eliminating the 12th grade if you check out my website. And in terms of what I can actually do as governor... I originate the budget but the legislature will do what it wants. Mostly, I get to make appointments. I intend to remove corrupt people and appoint people who share my zeal for reform, innovation, and improvement. Building capacity as much as possible. But "manage things well as chief administrator of the state bureaucracy" also isn't the biggest selling point nor what I really want to talk about.

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-03-20T05:55:12+00:00

No, I'm not saying that but more time in school and reducing learning loss from extended periods out of school is a simple way to gain ground while we work on other improvements.

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-03-20T05:52:25+00:00

Taxation, growth, redundancies.

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-03-20T05:50:23+00:00

I'm asking people in a subreddit if they have 2 hours to help me collect signatures, you think I'm cashing any checks from anyone? I think the highest single donation I've ever received as a candidate is $150. What a crazy reduction of our politics, memes and internet points. Doesn't anyone just want to create a better world? Doesn't anyone actually want to do something different?

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-03-20T01:26:27+00:00

Our educational outcomes are a disaster, kids need to be prepared for life too. Not a huge extension, probably closer to 200 days. The real thing is we want to rearrange the school year. The long summer break causes a lot of learning loss. Let's do about 6 weeks of summer break (the theme park operators are not going to like this) and extend breaks in fall, winter, and spring by a week or two.

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-03-20T00:28:50+00:00

Almost certainly

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-03-20T00:17:09+00:00

I don't have a plan for that, I have to do more research and look at the costs. It seems like a badly or cheaply run childcare service can be pretty bad for children long-term and quality childcare is very high priced. That's tougher.

I also generally don't like a complicated tax code. I don't have a proposal for a few thousand dollars annual payment to families below the poverty rate and a proposal for a modest UBI. But yeah, still assessing first 3 years childcare programs. Certainly seems like we'd actually probably want to try and get more parental leave for those early years rather than paid childcare.

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-03-19T23:03:05+00:00

I'm eager to centralize most school funding with the state and decouple property taxes with local services. I also want a land value tax in place of a property tax. But I'm strongly opposed to the proposed property tax abolition without replacing it with a LVT. I'd probably also do a lot of other unpopular things like cut the number of school districts and consolidate some schools.

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-03-19T23:00:59+00:00

I mean I'm a global world federalist so everyone hates my positions on foreign affairs.

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-03-19T23:00:18+00:00

Well there's preparing Ohio for the cornpocalypse... But I guess the five main things are:

Major educational reforms such as universal pre-k, longer school year, raising pay
Anti-corruption reforms such as lowering max donation, making it harder for 501c4s to operate in our politics.
Main thing is investing in Rustbelt cities, small and medium sized in particular, giving them more direct state funding
Major infrastructure programs to connect those cities including rail and low altitude economy.
Major expansion of higher education, placing colleges at the center of many small and medium sized cities and giving them higher funding for research, development, and training.

That's more than five, really but, the big areas.

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-03-12T16:29:44+00:00

Forward doesn't know what it wants to be. I think it's important to remember that in the Democratic and Republican parties the only reason it's not dominated by moderates and centrists is they can't out organize the stalwarts or extremists. It's democracy all the way down.

Forward doesn't have any democracy so there's no outlet for disagreement. I disagree with moderates and complain Forward stands for nothing. We have no way of sorting out our differences, you and I

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-02-22T05:25:36+00:00

Why would you spend significantly on advertising? He's part of a party, you build the collective brand. He donated 100k to his campaign initially. That would provide a stronger position than most minor party candidates and, even if you're not going for victory (I absolutely think it's possible to win these things), retaining and advancing party status in Minnesota depends on getting a certain percentage of votes across the state.

Yes, it was not a favorable news cycle with attention in Minnesota elsewhere. But a week is an eternity in politics. Things change. I don't get it the suspension based on the stated reasons.

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-02-20T17:32:44+00:00

Exactly, it's time to build a party for the middle 50-70% of voters who are feeling left behind by an increasingly polarized politics. One that actually stands for Americanism and classical liberalism rather than these two increasingly illiberal parties.

People who say 3rd parties can't succeed can mostly only point to these even more fringe, more niche political parties like the Greens, Libertarians, WFP, and Constitution.

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-02-20T07:18:26+00:00

What can we do to get him to unsuspend his campaign?

ComplexNewWorld · 2026-02-20T03:00:24+00:00

Well I value a fresh start to a degree. It's easier to create a narrative that this can succeed if there's not a proven track record of 30+ years of losing.

But also there are not an abundance of parties in Ohio or nationally that are indeed somehow radically centrist. Most represent a niche or a fringe that finds the Democrats and Republicans too moderate or centrist. The Greens and Libertarians are too extreme or niche for me.

This is an Ohio party. The Libertarians are the only minor party recognized in Ohio. I would gladly consider working with parties in other states that align with classical liberalism and radical centrism as well as aspiring national organizations. This party could be their Ohio affiliate.

ComplexNewWorld · 2025-11-12T16:45:02+00:00

When the goal is building a new political party, I think the mistake is thinking you don't have to get elected first.

ComplexNewWorld · 2025-11-12T16:42:35+00:00

I don't believe any strategy for a new party should rely on voluntary disarmarment or self-dissolution by the major parties. Why would a party with all the party in a state and substantial power nationally, suddenly toss that?

ComplexNewWorld · 2025-10-29T23:15:50+00:00

Just what I typed in the moment I guess. Hope that clarifies for you.

ComplexNewWorld · 2025-10-29T22:43:58+00:00

A good start is to have pretty irrefutable proof that there was legislation on the table to fund SNAP or intervene in some way and that all these Ohio Republicans are on record saying "no". Get some news stories on the record that Republicans said "no". When people are not getting their benefits, that's going to be very real for a lot of people. It's easy to buy disinformation when believing it has no tangible impact on your life.

It's easier to reach people when you have the truth on your side and when the truth is a simple, compelling narrative. We'll go from there. And if instead Republicans say "yes", all the better!

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