Humanitarian Government (Part 1)

Prologue

I need to explain some things before getting into things. 

I’m fairly common, yet uncommon, like all people. 

Yes, I’m an older white woman, had two kids, and I’ve been married since the dawn of time.  That’s the common part of my life.  But just hold on…. 

I also have a mental illness that I can track back to childhood. My children have mental illness, too.  But they watched their mother struggle with that, and they realized what they have, and have chosen not to have children. Me?  I personally applaud them. Family doesn’t need to be blood.  Hell, if long-time friends or roommates are closer to you than blood family, or your original family (whether by blood, adoption, or anything else), then I feel you can call them family. Especially if you’re distancing yourself from toxic relationships. 

I went to high school in the ONLY majority mixed-raced high school in a city with five high schools. It was also for the lower-middle class and the poor. 

I started moving around from the day I was born. My family moved around at least six times before leaving the state I was born in at about six years old, moved halfway across the country, moved four more times, went back to my birth state after graduating from high school, and moved three more times.  Then the fun part.  Yes, I was military, briefly, and moved around another three times during that time, and then between when my husband and I began to live together to now, I moved thirteen times. So…I’m a wanderer and I hope I don’t have to move until I die. 

But in one of those places I lived at for a while, we slowly became a hub for ‘travelers’. Now, let me define: ‘travelers’ are those who hitch-hike, drive cars older that were new in the mid-80s and are held together with duct tape and wire, former train-riders, unfortunates displaced by natural disasters and have no other place to go. Some are ex-cons, and most aren’t. I listened to their stories and watched how they dealt with conditions when there is no safety net for them. Some worked briefly while living with us, some didn’t. For the most part, everyone was interested in keeping their heads down, noses clean, and not making waves. But nearly all of them had what some would call ‘alternative lifestyles’. 

I also have lived most of my life on that gray line of ‘you make too much’ for assistance but still, with two incomes, couldn’t pay for the necessities of life. Those necessities are food, gas (both for a car and household), electricity, water/sewage, trash, cell phones, and internet/cable. I add cell phones and internet/cable because as we’ve developed technologically, it seems that employers and potential employers want access to any given person around the clock and wherever that person is at and that to even apply for a job anymore requires internet access. 

I’ve also been an advanced student (except in math…word problems and trig are the worst) since starting school. I’ve seen the days of nationalized schooling devolve into a riot of ‘homeschooling’ that is just glorified glossing of reading and math and then into child labor, charter schools (I’ll get more into this later), and poorly funded public schools. 

I’ve gone to Catholic school and church, Methodist, Baptist, Assembly of God, and studied religion on a broad basis. I have read/studied the Catholic Bible, the King James Bible, and a couple of other versions of that hallowed tome. I’ve also read the Quran. I also studied with Jehovah's Witness, got interested in Mormonism, and studied that and more.  The only Arabrahamic tome I haven’t been able to get my hands on is a torah that’s in English (I know I won’t ever learn Hebrew, so that’s out). No, I don’t read Sanscrit either, or any of the Eastern Languages, so learning directly (besides, some of all that is written into stone, and no, I’m not in any great heath to travel and inspect those in person) of Budhisim, Taoism, etc isn’t possible, but I have studied them via English texts. 

My history was fairly white-washed. But every time I learned something OUTSIDE of what I learned in school about other cultures, languages, or races was (for the most part) done outside of school and well out of the Midwest. As an example: I didn’t learn about Japanese Interment Camps until I was close to going into the Military, and worse yet, the issues in Tulsa/Greenwood and the burning down and record-destroying actions by whites in 1921 until after reading in a fictional book only about a decade ago. I knew of the Indian massacres and forced removal well before high school because I first became interested in Indian legends in elementary school, then followed up with personal research. 

I did most of my learning on my own via known and evenly written publications (i.e. encyclopedias..the hardback, heavier than a brick type). I’ve also nearly three years of college and tech certificates for work, and nearly two years via military schooling getting an LPN before my mental stability had caused me to not fulfill my contract. I’m ashamed of myself on this front because, at the time, I believed that a) being pregnant and not wanting to throw up on a captains boots was a valid necessity, and b) I castigated myself for my lack of ‘self control’ of my mental illness, which created more problems than it helped. Trust me, if I had known what I know now, I wouldn’t have gone into the military and my life would have been radically changed.. 

So, much of this you, the common citizen, might relate to. Several or just one, or all, doesn’t matter. 

Everyone has a story, everyone has disadvantages unless you pass that unnamed threshold of being able to buy yourself out of trouble or getting a diploma that you truly didn’t qualify to get into the school or the work done by you. I’ve lived in an age of great innovation, but also an age that started with a strong labor voice and degraded to minimum wage jobs, anyone voicing organizing a voice for labor being fired and possibly worse, an economy that seen a change from some sort of win-win for both labor and company to a trickle-down economy that has seen nearly thirty years of stagnating wages, and bloating of wealth for those who are in the one percent of owning corporations in this nation, those who manage funds for those are in the top ten percent who are executives in those corporations who cut jobs, force quotas of productivity that is unsustainable, and sent jobs overseas,  and then the other ninety percent who produces that wealth not see anything for their taxes or jobs. 

I have also seen requirements to just live a survival life increase based on costs and corporate needs, but those self organized corporations will not take any costs for that living into consideration. My personal views on this is that there are a good many families on the streets due to those facts. Child care, even when I used child care when my kids where about five and one years old, was nearly four hundred a week, and I was using that as respite for myself because I had all the symptoms of major depression, one of which was sleep deprivation or an over the top need of more than eight hours of sleep. I bring this up as to show that if a working family, wether one income or two, normally can’t afford the costs for basic living AND childcare but are also have such a minimal safety net that they are ‘homeless’. Also, remember that employers like fixed housing addresses in the hiring of future employees, and since these families no longer have that luxury, it’s a double whammy. 

So…this is a common citizens' solution. I’ll identify the general topic, what I saw in the past, what I see now, give possible solutions, and then I’m going to offer up a blueprint for a new Constitution. 

Yes, I’m well aware of scholars, political persons of all stripes, and citizens are nervous about that. However, our Founding Fathers knew that over the years, things would change and that the Constitution would need either Amendments or rewriting and put in place workings for that to happen. 

As of this writing, knowing what I know and the stalling and killing of amendments in Congress, stifling amendments in the States, the in-fighting of what is mainly a two-party system with one party who is connected to the populous and willing to adapt and recognize that not all have to be a carbon copy of a vocal minority and a party who state they are for law, order and the Constitution but have stated, in public, their plans of tearing all that to the ground, surveying and controlling womens lives and bodies, and making everyone not ‘normal and biblical’ illegal.  

Well, what I’m going to propose, will start with a new baseline, which will mean a tearing down (I’ll get to that after I tell you about a few other things in this book). However, it will also mean a building up of a new era of our Constitution, what it will mean, and how it will balance, hopefully, what is going on and why that is going on. 

Also, you’ll hear a bit of oomph to Nationalization and/or Federalization of certain things. States still have rights, but when it comes to things that cross State Borders, like transportation and licensure of professionals, then those things can have additional State embellishments to a Federal Law (if you want, call it Nationalized). Right now, we have a patchwork of requirements and/or lack of following the allowable behaviors for certain professions. 

One major example is of professionals who end up in trouble and in danger of losing their license in one state or area, then they move to another state or area, test and pass for their license in that new state or area, and repeat the cycle.  Guess what?  That’s lawsuits waiting to happen in a repeatable cycle, allowing persons not of a temperament or not wishing to follow professional legalities or needs to still practice their profession without repercussions and all that.   

If the Pilots and the Trucking Industry require a National license, then doctors, lawyers, police, teachers, and nurses should have the same. Not to mention National requirement definitions for all of those professions, education curriculum, and testing,  and at least one Continuing Education credit covering what is expected of their profession and updates to that per year, and another covering things like privacy laws, documentation requirements, and other mandatory (even now these would be necessary) needs with testing and passing that testing yearly.  I would recommend another eight based on specialties, additional skills, or something broadening the outlooks or education of whatever profession is practiced. 

So…that’s it….here we all go. 

Section One--Preamble 

Issue: 

When the Preamble was originally written in 1787, one needs to be aware of a few things. 

First, I’m not against the Founding Fathers. They were men reflective of the mindsets and social norms of that time. However, all were land-owning white men, and some did, and some didn’t own slaves. Most had fought in the War of Independence, had been taught in a variety of ways their way of thinking, such as tutors hired by their families and such, or just taught the basics by family or religious schools. 

But, that said, we are not a nation of land-owners anymore, we’ve grown (for the most part) to recognize that ‘others’ (Native American, Black, Asian, or Immigrants from the various waves that have entered the US) are people too. Not to mention that most live in crowded cities and the most you might have is five or ten acres on the outlines on the ‘right’ side of that city, due to costs and needing to be ‘close’ to work. If you’re really lucky, you have a ranch/farm that is big enough to have a touch of profit over living costs. Everything else...well, I’ll get to that too, later in the book. 

Granted, we have certain requirements for Citizenship that go well beyond what is taught in the few remaining Civics courses in the U.S. for immigrants gaining citizen status. We’ve also grown to realize that women have a pivotal position in the family, and work/job market, and as such, they want and need a voice in Government. 

There are also the sub-groupings of all those citizens: LGBTQ+, those ‘others’ who are still repressed and abused in a myriad of ways, the Christian factions along with racially-motivated groups that believe a particular minority of any time is replacing them, that force their members to believe, act, and vote how they dictate, and more.  

I’ll be honest, I’m a wiccan/humanist, bisexual, and personally believe that the differences between men and women are their floppy bits in different spots and that women have babies and men make them. Race as defined today is only based on the amount and shade of melatonin in the person's skin. To me, if you’re silver with bright purple hair, a red eye, webbed hands and feet, and a ten-foot tail of fur and scales, as long as you treat everyone around you with dignity and respect, and hold an open mind to all of that, I don’t care--you can either be around me, or in the unlikely event of me having the room, you can come over for a night. And no, you’ll have to get a hold of me at least one week beforehand, and only through a trusted source, so if you are interested, well….sorry but tough luck for now. 

Back to the point: I’m well aware of straight couples not being able to have children, and that there are couples out there who aren’t straight or born of a gender that can biologically have children but not born of that gender. However, those who have the right ‘plumbing’, with scientific help, can conceive and gestate those children. Still, the floppy bits may not be in the same direction or anything like that. But they are still Human.  

Also, it doesn’t matter on color or looks either. Everything is based on the needs of the environment, mutations, and what is determined as being desirable in whatever grouping of those groups of ancestral humans. Every last human being on the planet is mixed in one way or another and has a mutation that made their first ancestor stand out and, like livestock and pets, made them desirable and bred children with and without that mutation and it spread. If not with the mutation being prominent in a person, then they would carry that mutation as a recessive gene. 

But being Human means that a person shares 99.9% of DNA that is recognized as human rather than the 90% to 95% most life on Earth shares with us. If a living being bleeds red blood, and has a brain in their skull that weighs roughly 3 pounds (1300 to 1400 grams) as an adult, you are human. If you want to go to newborns, then three-quarters of a pound (350 to 400 grams), if you go to density and such, fine. You do the research. Now, there may be other scientific definitions that are ‘human’-only, then throw those in, too. But, no matter what, we as humans do evolve over time and that we of this time (as of this writing it’s August 2025), from Biblical humans, and we will be different in another two thousand years.  

So, what is wrong with the Preamble?  

Problems and possible solution: 

‘We the People’ didn’t cover everyone when first written. They meant white men, and worse yet, they didn’t recognize that women were anything more than baby machines and chattel, and African-Americans were simply chattel that they could treat as they wanted and, for the most part, didn’t educate other than Biblical knowledge and forced them into mainly manual labor. Not to mention tearing apart families just to gain a profit. As I said before, they were also all landholders, and there are papers to suggest that that thinking made them more equipped to make decisions for everyone else. Then you have all the treaties our forefathers made, broke, forcibly moved various groups of Native Americans to other locations with a great deal of loss of life. They were also cut out, like African-Americans, of having a complete say in government. 

That covers pretty much any other concept in the Preamble. So, here’s a solution: a re-writing of the Preamble to include ‘humanity’, maybe even to define ‘humanity’, define the norms of behavior for ‘humanity’, and even go so far as to define the pillars of Government. 

Those pillars of government would be broken down in broad terms as Citizen, Press, Economic, Religion, Military, and the normal branches: Judicial, Executive, and Legislative. 

Each will have their breakdowns and such. So here is the original Preamble, followed by the proposed new Preamble: 

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

We of all versions of Humanity may be today and may become in the future and live in those States who form the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union for all of those Humans, will establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, secure liberty and prosperity to all Citizens, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of 

America based in the blueprint of the Articles of Confederacy and the original Constitution for the United States of America and those members who choose to do their Civic Duty and speak for themselves in Governance. 

To define Humanity, we will determine that as holding 99.9% of the same DNA recognized scientifically as being human, who will recognize and will treat all with the same respect, dignity, and behaviors they wish upon themselves, and will support the Pillars of Governance: The Citizenry, The Press, The Role of Economics, The Role of Religion, and The Sub-Branches of our Government that will be The Executive, The Judiciary, and The Legislative and the Military.

From our friend, The Midnight Goddess NYX