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The denigration and destruction of our culture, norms and traditions, not only by those outside our country but also by many within our country. I would strive to insure that only those who support our culture are allowed to immigrate. I would strive to defend our county against invaders. I would strive to insure that internal security is adequate including appropriate punishments where needed. I would strive to insure that both born and unborn citizens are protected.

Get the government out of the economy. Free market economies have proven over and over again to provide the lowest living expenses.

Raise the age of eligibility; insure that payments into the system by individuals fully compensate for what would be expected in their retirement withdrawals; privatize the operation.

Remove government obstacles to production; insure that environmental protections are fully justified and not just politically expedient; insure that research on energy is not hampered by government actions and political correctness.

None. Education is not provided for in the US Constitution. If a state wants to provide education, I would strive to prevent citizens outside that state or the federal government from having to support such an endeavor.

We will never end violence, gun or otherwise, but it should be minimized at all levels of society. This is best accomplished by encouraging cultural norms of peaceful settlements of disputes, strong police presence, and a justice system that isolates those who perpetuate violence. Having armed law abiding citizens will discourage violent citizens more than efforts disarm responsible citizens.

The biggest threat to national security is cyber warfare, including foreign-controlled AI that penetrates our infrastructure control systems. Responsibility for defense is spread across many agencies and relies on private sector operators. We need serious wargaming and perhaps adjustments to agency responsibilities.

We must identify the root causes of higher prices, which are mostly of government origin at all levels: federal (debt, war, tariffs, regulation, permitting delays), state (regulation, permitting delays, misguided energy policies) and local (zoning, budgets that drive property taxes). There are some corporate bad actors in limited situations (greed, monopolies), but government is the largest problem. We must publicize these root causes and ask voters to demand change at the respective levels.

There are perhaps a dozen or more adjustments we could make. The two with the biggest and immediate impact would be (a) raising or eliminating the wage cap for payroll tax (we used to capture 90% of wages, now it is more like 83%); (b) means testing and reducing benefits for those with net worth in the multi-million dollars (excluding primary residence). See my plan for deficit reduction on my website.

Energy powers economies. We need a standard, approved nuclear plant design and faster permitting. Nuclear is our future to provide a steady baseload. But this transition will take a long time, and in the meantime, we need to continue to extract gas and oil for both domestic and export purposes. If we don't, Russia will continue and they have poor environmental regulations on the extraction process. Last year, China installed 78 gigawatts of new coal capacity while Colorado has been rapidly shuttering coal and replacing it with wind and solar, resulting in Colorado residents paying the highest prices for electricity of any of our surrounding western states.

Religious organizations that provide food and food services for the needy can receive taxpayer dollars in the form of grants, but only if there are no religious “strings” attached.

I would be open to federal background checks and closing loopholes on “over the counter” sales at gun shows. Any federal government gun control laws need to be based on data, not knee-jerk reactions to the most recent high-profile incident.

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Our own national belligerence on the global scale is the single greatest danger we face. We need to contract our global military empire, stop propping up brutal foreign regimes, stop engaging in proxy conflicts, and quit puffing ourselves up against nations that are just our business competitors.

We have lost any claims to the moral high ground, and we need to quit pretending like we have it.

We need to come to the table with China, Russia, Iran, etc., as equals and recognize ourselves as a nation AMONG nations, not above.

US global hegemony is a pipe dream that is doomed to fail, and the longer we allow fools to push for it, the more dire the consequences will be when we have to face them.

It is time for us to recognize that we are one humanity on a full planet. We currently have the technology to feed, clothe, shelter, and connect every person on the planet, and it is an issue of trust, not capability, that keeps this from happening. There is no benefit to starving anyone anywhere in the world. There is no true profit in a closed system, and that's just what a planet is.

There is never a time when doing harm is doing good, and we must be the change we wish to see in the world.

A living wage that is tied to the consumer price index. By tying the wage to the CPI, if prices go up, wages necessarily follow. That will put a stop to the price increases. At the same time, we need to fully open up global free trade.

Interestingly enough, there are people who but American goods halfway around the world that pay a third or less of the cost that we do.

There are a very small amount of people who can even pretend to benefit from trade barriers, and judging by their paranoia and insatiability, it seems as though those benefits are illusory at best.

Once again, we are one humanity on a full planet. Attempting to hoard the benefits of life while shifting the costs to the rest of the world is not only unsustainable, it is not working.

We've got to redefine the terms "net worth" and "return on investment." How can we equate worth with the amount a person has taken? Isn't worth supposed to mean what is given?

If the return on investment involves the spread of poverty, death, and destruction, by my view, that's not a very good return. Those who are cloistered away from the real facts of life do not realize that to be in the last room of the house that catches on fire is still to be in a house on fire.

We need to raise the general standard of living so that more people can actually afford to pay into Social Security. This all comes back to a living wage. If it is high enough to get people paying in, that alone will help establish solvency.

At the same time, we need to dramatically increase the income limit for pay in. Right now, the limit is less than 200,000 a year, and any income above that doesn't pay into social security. That is ridiculous, and it has to change. If the amount of money that a person can earn is unlimited, the amount of money that is eligible for Social Security tax needs to be unlimited as well.

We need to recognize that the mainstays of our current energy infrastructure are all 19th Century technologies, and we need to behave as though we're in the 21st.

We need far greater investment in renewable energy.

At the same time, we need a ban on net-metering offsets caps that utilities place on home power generators. If people can receive fair market price for all of the electricity they generate, they will have a greater incentive to generate as much energy as possible through home wind and solar systems.

Take my house for example. We generate over 100 times the electricity we actually use. We only get paid for 120%. As it stands, my utility company sells all of the excess to my neighbors without paying for it at all. We were willing to make that investment because we'd like to take part in creating a better future for everyone. Honestly, we're not really in a financial situation to do it, but we have to take more than disposable income into account when looking at real life.

Unfortunately, not many people are willing to do that. By banning or at least dramatically expanding the net-metering offset caps, people can get into renewable energy generation at home for the financial incentive whether they believe we need to do something or not.

There are more advantages to decentralized power generation than there are drawbacks, and almost all of the drawbacks are for people who just want to own shares and collect dividends.

None. Religion has no place in government. If it would truly guide the conscience of its members, that would be nice. Let's get real, though. That's not what's happening.

There are too many different religions, and if the government will not promote them all, it should promote none of them. Government has no place "recognizing" one religion or understanding of the world or another.

Gun violence is a symptom of the disease that is our modern world perspective. Every murder and suicide is caused by a form of desperation that is a direct product of systemic failure. This failure does not belong to government alone, though, and the remedy is something that we all must embody in order to bring it into service.

So long as our civilization is the way it is, people will be driven over the edge and commit heinous crimes. Our algorithmic rage-baiting is only making things worse, as is the general conception of what "wealth," "love," "worth," and "beauty" are. These are issues that we must work on inside ourselves first.

There is no way for government to mandate a higher level of understanding.

What the government CAN do is stop committing and funding gun violence both domestically and internationally. It can dismantle the "kill pipeline" that lures people into the military in search of release and economic opportunity.