THIS TIME WE MEAN IT!
Here’s our plan
A 250-Year Campaign for a Stewardship Commonwealth
Launched in the 250th year of the American experiment — Virginia, July 2026
Why 250 Years, and Why Now
America just turned 250 — and the Declaration was written here, by Virginians, as a promise made on behalf of “posterity.” That’s us. We are the posterity of 1776, inheriting both the promise and the unfinished business.
So the campaign frame is simple: the first 250 years built self-government; the next 250 must make that government able to keep a living world. “This Time We Mean It” is a vow to take the founding words seriously — all people, common good, posterity — and extend them to the land, the water, and the generations to come.
If we have power, we will own it and use it for real progress.
We threw off the Byrd machine, the 1902 constitution, recently in Richmond said no thanks to casino, twice.
Challenges make us stronger and help us keep our focus.
The 250-year horizon does specific work: – It’s cathedral thinking: medieval builders laid foundations for spires they’d never see. Oyster reefs, forests, constitutions, and institutions are built the same way. – It echoes the Seventh Generation principle of the Haudenosaunee — weigh every decision by its effect seven generations out. 250 years ≈ ten generations. We’re being more ambitious than the founders and older than the oldest oak we’ll plant. – It outlasts every business cycle, election cycle, and quarterly report — which is precisely the point. A community with a 250-year plan cannot be bought by anyone with a 4-year plan.
Stay tuned for more on “The next 250” on TheWorkFM
We’ll be having regular drive-time shows on how folks have been succeeding at making Virginia safe for Democracy.
Why Not? It started here, and an occasional emperor wanabee keeps us on our toes.
We are not alone. 99% of humans will work to help us, humanity, help the world work.
What could be more fun and useful?
Ron
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