PLATFORM



The Transhumanist Party and Zoltan Istvan's US Presidential campaign

aspires to be politically-centric. It aims to support voters with future-inspired

policies that will enrich America and the world. We believe science and

technology can solve most of the world's problems. Many of the party's core

ideas and goals—as well as those of Zoltan Istvan's—campaign can be read

in the founding party article in The Huffington Post or this Op-Ed in Gizmodo.



Here's the more detailed platform below:



1) Implement a Transhumanist Bill of Rights advocating for legal and

government support of longer lifespans, better health, and higher standards

of living via science and technology. Designate aging as a disease. Lay

groundwork for rights for other future advanced sapient beings like conscious

robots and cyborgs.



2) Spread a pro-science culture by emphasizing reason and secular values.



3) Create stronger government awareness and policies to protect against

existential risk (including artificial intelligence, plagues, asteroids, climate

change, and nuclear warfare and disaster).



4) Reduce the size and cost of the government by streamlining operations

with new technology.



5) Implement policy for the phasing out of all individual taxes base on robots

taking most jobs in the next 25 years. Advocate for a flat tax until we reach

that point.



6) Advocate for morphological freedom (the right to do anything to your body

so long as it doesn't harm others). Defend genetic editing and other radical

science that can transform health care.



7) Advocate for partial direct digital democracy using available new

technologies. Implement a Ranked Voting System.



8) End costly drug war and legalize all drugs. Spend saved money on

rehabilitation.



9) Create government where all politician’s original professions are

represented equally (the government should not be run by 40% lawyers when

lawyers represent less than 10% of the country’s jobs). Create

government where women run half of country too.



10) Significantly lessen massive incarcerated population in America by using

innovative technologies to monitor criminals outside of prison. Spend saved

money on education.



11) Strongly emphasize and create radical green tech solutions to make

planet healthier.



12) Because most jobs will be lost to robots and software in the next 30 years,

support and draft logistics for a Universal Basic Income for every American

(taking care to devise a plan that does not enlarge the

government). A properly set up UBI could eliminate welfare, social security,

and dozens of other major government programs. Over the extreme long

term, consider possibility of a Resource Based Economy.



13) Dramatically enlarge US space exploration agenda with increased

government and private resources.



14) Develop international consortium to create a "Transhumanist Olympics"



15) Encourage private industry to develop and support usage of a trauma

alert implants or technology that notifies emergency crews of extreme trauma

(this will significantly reduce domestic violence, crime, and tragedy in

America).



16) Develop science and technology to be able to eliminate all disabilities in

humans who have them.



17) Insist on campaign finance reform, limit lobbyist’s power, and include 3rd

political parties in government. Implement term limits in all Government.

Mandate real time public surveillance and transparency of Government.



18) Provide free public education at every level; advocate for mandatory

college education and preschool in the age of far longer lifespans



19) Advocate for a more open and fair immigration policy, taking care to use

technologies to help this.



20) Create a scientific and educational industrial complex in America instead

of a military industrial complex. Spend money on wars against cancer, heart

disease, and diabetes—not on wars in far-off countries

