“The Covenant for a Revived Republic”

 

The Official Platform of the American Revival Foundation

Written April 30th, 2025

 

 

“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, those who are in the twilight of life, and those who are in the shadows of life.” 

— Hubert H. Humphrey

 

Introduction: 

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The mission of the American Nation has been fundamentally altered by decades of decay and disrepair at the hands of those who were supposed to act as guardians of the national body. It's time for the American people to reclaim their rightful place in the eyes of the world. No longer shall this nation be spoken of as an “economic zone” or an “idea,” but rather, a nation with its own identity. A nation not of nameless consumers, but of free people dedicated to the project of national renewal. Some speak of GDP, tinker with charts and economic figures, but mere numbers do not dictate our mission. The soul of our people is rising to reclaim what is theirs. A covenant must be established between the forgotten and faithful, the workers who built this nation and the children who will inherit it, between a sovereign nation and its sacred duty to endure. The time for mere reform is over; the time for revival has come. This is a Covenant for a Revived Republic, and with it we summon the revival of the nation and all her people.

 

Point One: Overturn Corporate Domination of our Society and Culture:

 

The soul of America has been delimbbed and desecrated through corporate greed and the interests of a moneyed few. These interests have destroyed American industry, packaged it up, and shipped it overseas to foreign nations for cheap labor to stuff the pockets of their shareholders at the behest of their CEOs in soulless corporate highrises. These companies are not the friends of America. They have created a service economy in which citizens labor like machines, are forced to work long hours in jobs they hate, and earn wages that are barely enough to survive on, if they are lucky. International behemoths such as Amazon, Walmart, Apple, and other large multinational corporations can not be allowed to continue the wanton destruction of the American spirit and the American dream. Everywhere, a corporate smile is plastered onto a billboard, and company slogans fill every street corner as the transnational corporations attempt to get their next client hooked on their newest, most addictive product. They have created a culture of endless consumption, which has left the pockets of the American people empty and their souls betrayed. Their wages have continued to stagnate, their country has been ransacked for parts, and their purchasing power has declined. What is the solution to this national crisis? 

 

To counter the influence of corporate interests on the United States, a new solution is needed. The Clinton Democrats and Reagan Republicans alike have failed to provide the American people with a forward-thinking or viable solution to their problems, which only seem to increase in number and magnitude with each passing day. First and foremost, we must break down the power of the corporate elite over the people by decentralizing business, thereby ensuring a genuine free market with fair competition, fair trade practices, and authentic product diversity. This will occur through a process of “demonopolization”, or in other words, the deconstruction of America’s largest and most greedy megacorporations. Following this process of “demonopolization,” we must cut taxes for our struggling, patriotic national producers – our micro, small, and medium enterprises. To ensure that corporate domination over our government and lives does not return, it is the responsibility of the state to provide a complete end to lobbying by special interest groups within the United States. Any American intervention in favor of foreign or corporate interests that the government facilitates ought to be based upon the will of the American people themselves and not upon the will of the moneyed or non-domestic interests, which have served the people nothing so far.

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Point Two: Provide Paid Family Leave to all Parents:

 

It is the wish of every mother and father to be an active part of their children’s lives. However, as companies demand more and more from their workers and force themselves upon their employees as almost a “new home,” which the individual is forced to spend more time investing in than their own families, the days when the household came first are becoming a thing of the past. It is high time to reverse this trend, in which the people’s lives are dominated by merely the ambition to get by in an increasingly hostile economy. To ensure a fair livelihood for all workers, and especially parents, it is necessary to establish at least three months of paid family leave for all citizens.

 

It is crucial that infants are not forced into long daycares for long hours while their parents slave away at the desk or in the shop. Instead, family must come first within the community, ensuring that no American is left feeling as though they must choose between their family or their job.

 

Point Three: Stop American Dependence on Resources that Destroy our Natural Beauty:

 

The magnificence of the nature of the United States is unmatched. From the Grand Canyon to the Redwood Forests, this nation is blessed. It is our responsibility to make sure the natural beauty of the United States is preserved. Therefore, in addition to utilizing alternatives to fossil fuels, we also advocate for the re-establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps to provide jobs to maintain our environmental beauty. This corps would provide jobs to thousands of Americans and give them the unique opportunity of aiding in the management and moderation of our natural environment. 

 

Point Four: Revitalize the Power of The Worker and the Small Business Owner:

 

One income should provide for a family. International mega-corporations have destroyed America's middle class with union-busting, outsourcing, price slashing, and many other insidious practices. Far from resisting, our government has willingly collaborated with these national traitors, enriching the few and impoverishing the many. We plan to take the fight right to these corporations and ensure that the minimum wage is tied to the cost of living and constantly adjusted for inflation. Subsidies will be provided to small businesses so that wage increases have no impact upon their normal operations, while tariffs will be imposed to support these enterprises in combination with expansive internal investments. 

 

What do we mean when we refer to “expansive internal investments”? We refer, of course, to State investments in the economy, so that any income the government receives is directly tied to the success and well-being of the national economy. We should not and do not promote the heavy-handed intervention of the State within the businesses it invests within. Rather, the State should take on the role of a mere shareholder. And why should the State not be allowed to pursue a role as a central shareholder within the economy? What should prevent the government from being a shareholder and drawing profits from its investments? This method of state intervention should be coupled with a complete and total abolition of all taxes on income and personal land. 

 

On top of these demands, we will fight for either a complete rewrite of American Anti-Trust legislation or its abolition altogether. America’s Anti-Trust Acts, while prohibiting monopoly in theory, have not been sufficient in either economic crises of the past or economic downturns in the contemporary era. They have continued the vicious cycle which has gone on since their implementation of decimating the small shopkeeper, the local chef, and the struggling craftsman. The Sherman & Clayton Antitrust Acts have acted as nothing other than murderers of struggling small businesses. Throughout our various periods of economic instability within America, our businesses have desperately attempted to stabilize their prices and outputs, or pool resources between themselves, as during crises, they lack the ability to compete with megacorporations. Today, we are headed towards a total oligopoly, and we will continue to trend in that direction unless we put a stop to the legislation enabling such chaotic economic exploitation as soon as possible.

 

Points Five & Six: The Right & Duty to Work:

 

It is the belief of our organization that every citizen must not only be of service to his community as an absolute and unconditional duty, but that insofar as that duty is fulfilled, that society ensures that no responsible citizen goes without shelter, food, housing or any other basic human right. No responsible and patriotic American should need to fear homelessness or unemployment. Upon this basis, we advocate for a duty to work and a right to labor as well as sufficient safety networks which ensure his security. Rather than a Universal Basic Income, which would likely lead to skyrocketing inflation, we propose a Universal Basic Needs Guarantee that will ensure all employed Americans have a basic minimum standard of living, including food, water, housing, and medical care. To ensure full employment, we support the reintroduction of the Works Progress Administration to provide jobs to all Americans who desire one. To further our goal of protecting the sovereign American, we believe it is the employer's duty to ensure compliance with this new program. If properly implemented, it will help eradicate unemployment and economic suffering as they exist today within the United States. This vision will entirely reshape modern America if it is seen through faithfully, transforming this nation from a rotting neoliberal “economic zone” into a new and revived national community. 

 

Point Seven: Bind up the Wounds of Division to Build a Better Future: 

 

We are all Americans. We need to work together to build a more united and prosperous future. We need freedom from poverty, homelessness, and destitution, and to do this, we must recognize that we are all Americans. The population of the United States has unlimited potential. Instead of being shackled by endless economic cycles which, we need a revolution of the soul. But we have to do much more beyond just ending our endless debt cycles, or reconstructing the electoral mechanism, or ending extranational economic coercion, or bringing security to the average American. These are all great solutions to problems which mean the world to many Americans, but none of this matters at all if our organization is not able to aid in mending the partisan divide that threatens to rip America apart. Without a common national vision, the concept of our nation is relegated to a few sheets of paper and a handful of unelected bureaucrats. If we want change, real change, the party divide must come to an end, and all Americans, no matter their sex, creed, race, or ethnicity, must come together to revive what our founding fathers Jefferson and Paine once meant when they uttered the word “America.” 

 

Closing Note:

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The future must not belong to those who only seek to manage decline; it must not belong to those who outsource labor, poison our culture, and tell us to consume while our nation is pillaged. The future, by right, belongs to the American people — those who have labored for this nation, those who believe, those who plant trees they may never enjoy the shade of. This platform is a suggestion, a declaration that our nation shall not die in her sleep, but rise through the strength of her people. Let the cynics scoff, let the corporations sneer. Let those masters of decay cling to their crumbling empires. The American people will meet this challenge. Our country will endure, our nation will be revived.

— Gabriel Ervin, Joshua Lino