Let’s face it, Andrew Yang’s unprecedented candidacy is a once in a century candidate. The concept of the Green New Deal derives part of its name from FDR’s The New Deal. President Roosevelt was a massive progressive for his time and was so loved he was our longest serving president. The idea that we as a country are on the precipice of a revolutionary change is very clear. It doesn’t matter where you fall on the political spectrum, from the staunchest MAGA man to the wildest anarchist…If you’re paying attention to the political climate at all you know there is a major shift happening here at home. The kind of shift that altered the United States almost 100 years ago with The New Deal, implementation of Social Security, 5 day — 40 hour work week, ending of child labor and more, kind of shift.

We are reaching a moment in our life that we must decide how we want to shape our country because those that made the previous major choices are all about to die and will not have to deal with the same challenges as we will. The fourth industrial revolution is going to be the most economically productive event in the history of mankind. With that productivity with come destruction of the lower and middle class on a scale previously unimagined. The argument that people made it through the industrial revolution by simply adapting to the new reality is shallow at best. Yes, people were able to find new jobs and new industries were built providing new opportunities for new workers and we only had to keep up with the technology at its speed of discovery, which we were able to do because that speed was at the rate of man’s ingenuity and ability. The revolution is not going to move at the same speed. It will move exponentially. Most people have heard the word and know what it means, but from what I can tell they don’t truly understand the significance of it. If I have you walk 30 steps, you will have a general idea about where you will end up. That’s the industrial revolution. Now, if I have you take 30 steps exponentially, you would be able to walk the distance from here to the moon and back and still circle the planet a few times, that is the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Why is this one so different? Why is it going to outpace man and his abilities? Automation and Artificial Intelligence

In an episode of The Blaze , Glenn Beck, love him or hate him, published a video back on May 2nd, 2018 breaking down the 4th Industrial Revolution in great detail in a short amount of time. He illustrated the impact of automation most notably in the events that occurred in 2015–2016 when oil fracking was booming. The Saudis, our “allies”, and major oil producer of the world decided, instead of cutting oil production would attempt to kill fracking by maintaining production levels and causing a glut of oil in the market, dropping oil prices drastically. Armed with the knowledge that fracking was more expensive than traditional oil production and the prices needed to remain high in order for fracking to be profitable, the Saudis began to accomplish their goal and oil fields started closing shop. After a couple of years, the oil fields were coming back online, even with low oil prices. The workers, weren’t coming back to the oil fields though, at least not in the numbers they had left. They had been replaced by what is known as the “The Iron Roughneck”. Replacing a 20 man crew with a 5 man crew. Those 15 other worker’s jobs are not coming back. This is the essence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDlK9f7zHo4

The solution that Andrew Yang has, while historically common, is unique in the current field of candidates on the democratic side. Sure, other candidates have attempted to co-opt the idea in various forms, like Booker with another Earned Income Tax Credit — which assumes one to be employed — and whatever you want to call Mayor Pete’s attempt at it. The only candidate who considered Yang’s plan and platform was Marianne Williamson. However, whether it’s Joe Biden speaking on late night t.v. about what he’s learned, from Yang, about the fourth industrial revolution or Elizabeth Warren not thinking that automation is a serious threat… One thing is for sure, Andrew Yang understands the topic, has done the math, and is ready to bring the country together to tackle what experts know is going to be the most devastating social destruction in the history of mankind.

I hear the Bernie Sander’s supporters in my head arguing that Bernie deserves the spot. He’s been fighting for forty years for the same thing. This is absolutely correct. He actually deserved it last time he ran. His running has brought the true concept of big ideas into the mainstream and brought us to where we are now. For that we should all be forever thankful. However, it took him forty years to get us here, and the world is moving much faster now than it was before and his time for presidency has past. One could even argue that taking 40 years to make something happen isn’t very effective as well. It is not uncommon for one to be realistically expected to run and win, only to lose to the new kid on the block. In 2008, Hillary Clinton was practically anointed by the powers that be and the expectations of the nation to become the next president of the United States. She lost to the barely known new guy, Barack Obama. That was her time to shine, and he stole it. She was lucky enough to get another shot, but her time had passed, and there was no way she was going to win with a message that we can go back to business as usual, Ahem* Joe Biden cough* cough* Especially after facing down the Democratic Socialist that was and is ready to offer the American people a new social contract. One that takes into account the people and wants regular people to benefit in some way from the existence of the country from which they reside. Bernie Sanders is just short of wanting to take over the means of all production. The contract that over one million people have essentially signed with their donations to his campaign include eliminating an entire industry. This action, while noble in its cause, removes a major factor of American life, choice. To have a choice is to be free. All in all, we must thank Bernie for his forty years of service, replace Henry Kissinger with Bernie Sanders, and head into the future with Andrew Yang at the helm.

Well, here comes the Elizabeth Warren supporters. Speaking loud and clear, while Warren doesn’t have the years of experience that Bernie has, and has been quite effective in pursuit of her goals to fight the banks and stick up for the people against the most powerful cartel of the 20th century…that is where her progressive agenda ends. That is where her political career ends. That is not all the presidency is for. Hell, that barely registers as a factor in the day to day choices made by the President of the United States. Sure, it’s noble. One of the best things about this election cycle is the range of seemingly noble choices we have on the democratic side. With Senator Warren, she has been and should remain in the lane that she excels at… Fighting the banks. She hasn’t needed to be president in order to accomplish all she has accomplished thus far, and there’s no reason she can’t continue to fight from her political perch. I’ve been a fan of Elizabeth Warren since I first saw her on “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central several years ago. She is well versed in breaking down subject matter for people to grasp what she’s talking about despite the complexity of the topic. This comes from years of being a Harvard graduate professor. This is an impeccable skill to have when one has to educate the public about the issues at hand. This does not mean she is infallible. One can simply look at her opinion on automation to see she doesn’t grasp the gravity of what is coming, let alone that topic. She is incredibly likable, intelligent, and electable but, Donald Trump is not the banks. Donald Trump has established himself in a superior position above all politicians and Warren has been in politics long enough to be considered a politician. Anything topic she hasn’t planned for is detrimental to her candidacy. She has shown a tendency to tripped up on the easiest questions, for which she knows the answers, but must measure her response by the political establishments desires. This was seen clear as day when asked about a president’s children working on the board of an international company and reaping the benefits of their relationship to power in the United States. We all know she knows the answer, because she started with the answer. It was a clear and resounding “No”. She then added a bunch of words after that which simply prove my point. She has spent too much time in politics to be effective against the establishment for which the people have clearly stated, they have had enough of.

That leaves, Andrew Yang. He’s not a politician. He’s not going to run again. This is it. Passing on this opportunity to restructure the American Society using the principles it was founded upon is the essence of what a president does. Bringing to light the reality and providing the American people with choices that can improve their lives is what a leader does. Donald Trump has an amazing ability to make it seem as though he does what he wants and everyone else around him just falls in line. This is true to the extent that those around him are forced to fall in line due to politics. When Trump was running, we all knew and believed he knew how politics worked when he explained how he contributed money to any campaign that would advance his agenda. He was putting the whole political scene in the light and we should all appreciate that he has continued to do that. Nothing has changed for Donald Trump and he has continued to do whatever he thinks in his “unmatched wisdom” will benefit him. Yang on the other hand, doesn’t have the same agenda. He too is calling out the clear threats of how Washington works. How capitalism is being eaten by its creation, automation. That we can’t continue to utilize the framing of a world that no longer exists. He is offering not only a new social contract but an evolution of societal economics. Most notably is the way his policies are interlaced. The other candidates have a plan for this or a plan for that. Slowly attempting to rewrite the way the 1% participates in our society in hopes that those plans will benefit the 99%. Andrew Yang wants to skip all the extra steps and put the resources directly into the hands of the people. This provides an avenue for the 99% to determine what will happen in their life. Virtually every other policy builds on top of this one. Human Capitalism uses the power of the markets to create a better world all the way around. The role of the government is to work for the masses and not just industry. Yang want to realign the system so everyone from big business to the homeless person are all headed in the same direction. This is what a leader does. They chart a course for us to traverse together. They don’t demonize one against the other. There are no “others”. The 1% isn’t the enemy and more than undocumented people or automation are the enemy. Division is the enemy. A lack of moral fortitude is the enemy. Legalized and socially acceptable corruption is the enemy. It is time to let go of the way things have always been done and move into the future with Andrew Yang, because the alternative is to face automation and artificial intelligence without leader who understands the issue in the captain’s seat, leaving our fate and future in the hands of Big Tech and Capitalism. None of which care about people.