Overview

We are building a moderate political party in the United States.

AIMI wants to help you create more dignity and political influence by:

1. Having letters ready to send to your elected U.S. representatives. We will send the letters and we will keep track of the responsiveness of your representatives.
2. Making available our “Political Sliders” so you may appreciate the spectrum of political values and ideas.
3. Assuring that moderate political ideals are well defined and articulated.
4. Creating a safe space for news, opinion and the reasoned exchange of ideas…leading to political action.
5. Creating an organisation that will try to make life a litte easier, and a little more dignified, within a society that is often complex and full of ambiguity.

So, take a look around. Consider our moderate political philosophy. Consider our plans. Become a member, or a State Delegate. Together we can build a society so as to us shall seem most likely to effect our safety and happiness.

Human beings have differing identities because we perceive conditions, changes, alternative means to goals, and we make choices in our lives. The choices we make are reflective of our character and form our character and identity. (“A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”)

We would like individuals to be critically reflective regarding their character, identity and their choices. AIMI provides an alternative to equifair-progressivism and intolerant-conservatism. We suggest you try something different – Character-liberalism and Tolerant-conservatism.

As individuals (and as a society) it is easy for us to grasp “either/or” discussions and politics. Ambiguity, complexity and political correctness prevent individuals (and our society) from effectively dealing with the problems faced by individuals. Solutions to problems begin with the individual. The broader society cannot lift someone who does not work to lift himself or herself. With regard to changes in our society, the private realm can respond more quickly and effectively than the public sector.

Combining Rational Politics With Optimization Politics:

1. Individuals make personally rational (not objectively rational) choices regarding economics and politics.
2. The society moves forward in an aggregate manner through the application of individual choices.
3. Individuals have imperfect knowledge and wisdom regarding choices, conditions, means, options, goals and responsibilities. These imperfections in knowledge and wisdom (imperfect character) lead to suboptimal choices and outcomes for the individual. (As a consequence, suboptimal choices by the individual will lead to, in the aggregate, suboptimal options and conditions within the society.) We must provide individuals with character, knowledge and wisdom through our culture.
4. With regard to time, individuals often make choices based upon immediate interests instead of longer term interests and goals, including generational interests and goals. We must provide short-sighted individuals with longer term interests, goals, and means.
5. Consequently, the aggregate vector of the society misses the mark with regard to optimization and progress – for the individual, their progeny and the society.
6. In order to improve the aggregate direction and force of our society we must incorporate human and individual character and progeny optimization into our individual economic and political choices.
7. We create private realm and public sector institutions (culture, language, family, books, religion, education, community, deliberative politics, common law) to encourage individual character optimization and appropriate economic and political choices.
8. With a greater number of rational and optimal personal choices, more individuals and the aggregate society will more fully enjoy the fruits of their deliberative choices, labor and character.

If we, as a people, are going to permit everything and legally find all cultural identities equal (incorrectly believing there are no objective truths), then those who live a character-based and principled life should not have to pay for the consequences resulting from the poor-yet-personally-rational choices of others. The consequences of those poor choices should not be a legally binding burden on those who make character choices. Those who make dignified and successful choices must be protected from those who make undignified and less successful choices. As a society, we must reward character. Most of us will decline if we all have to pay for the consequences of short-sighted human choices.

Help us create a society that works for all and offers good opportunities to each individual.