Editorial: Santa Clara County officials invited to show support for Vision-2020
Let’s encourage every elected leaders to show courage and vision and support the ambitious but achievable Golden Goals — and save democracy.
Editorial is the opinion of Gilroy Life
We live in a toxic time. We face nationwide a combative political arena filled with anger, fear and hate. We witness now the rapid decline and possible death of democracy by the end of this decade.
Let’s turn this crisis into an opportunity. Let’s empower our republic to not only survive but also thrive for future generations. Let’s conduct an audacious experiment starting here in Silicon Valley to reform our society.
Our region is globally celebrated for its “crazy” ideas and cutting-edge innovations. Life Media Group, the company that publishes Morgan Hill Life and Gilroy Life newspapers, is seeking to tap into that spirit of transforming the world with technology. We’re asking every elected official in the United States — including the American President — to support by July 4 the twenty Golden Goals of the Vision-2020 movement.
We’ve prepared an online survey listing these goals, all seeking to give a higher quality of life to Americans as well as people in other nations. They relate to issues including vastly improving our education systems, protecting our environment, dealing with Earth’s climate crisis, encouraging cleaner energy use, stabilizing our economy, expanding social justice and gender equality, building more diversity in leadership positions, promoting enriched thinking through science and creativity, enhancing our free press to protect our freedoms, inspiring more civic engagement in our governance established on the principles of popular sovereignty, and emboldening actions for a more peaceful world.
Life Media Group invites the more than 200 elected officials representing the people of Santa Clara County to participate in our short survey and thus publicly share with their fellow citizens their support for these ambitious goals. The leaders who participate will have their names published in upcoming issues of our community newspapers, allowing our readers to learn who will publicly stand up for basic human values.
We hope this survey will ignite wide-spread media coverage of the Vision-2020 movement and embolden the more than 500,000 elected officials throughout the United States to also show their support for the movement. Their demonstrating true leadership by supporting a better quality of life for all people will awaken the American spirit in millions of citizens across our country. We believe our citizens coming together as one nation dedicated to the principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will reduce our foolish polarization, thus strengthening democracy to continue as a legacy.
Life Media Group hopes that if the Vision-2020 movement receives the support of our nation’s leaders, our fellow Americans will help us financially to build media innovations. These tools will encourage people to stop fighting and start uniting around a common purpose of building a better world for future generations.
Proceeds from the sale of the books Vision-2020: Be a Hero for Humanity and Humanity: A Vision-2020 Novel (both available on Amazon) will enable Life Media Group to build the foundation of media innovations to transform politics, economics, and culture for a more ethical and morally stronger society.
The benefits of these transformative media innovations include:
- Enhancing our education system by using journalism techniques to empower young people with effective communication skills.
- Upgrading community news by training military veterans in professional journalism techniques to prepare them for media jobs.
- Creating a pioneering platform that empowers small business owners to build their brand and expand their customer base.
- Empowering creativity in communities by providing an online stage where local arts and entertainment can be easily shared.
Life Media Group invites all city, education, county, state and national elected leaders who honestly care about the future of our country and desire to prevent the collapse of democracy to show true leadership by taking our three-minute survey.
If the Vision-2020 movement succeeds, those who helped their fellow Americans save our nation can stand proud with the knowledge they played a key role in that victory.
American democracy is an on-going experiment. Our republic has stood strong for nearly 250 years. Now the experiment lies in peril from our imprudent polarization. With everyone joining together, Vision-2020 can preserve our republic for our posterity.
Let’s fight for the free press and our freedoms. Let’s encourage every elected leaders, from President Joe Biden and members of Congress to city, county and state officials, to show courage and vision and support the ambitious but achievable Golden Goals — and save democracy.
Teaming together, we must connect all men, women and children in an inspiring adventure to preserve the promise of the American republic.