Nota Bene: Please seeVote for Karlos: Part 1<\/a><\/strong> for a more thorough look into the intricate mind of this insightful 2040 presidential candidate. <\/p>\n

My friends, it is time to heal America. Washington is too dysfunctional, our feuds too petty and too numerous. We are a nation divided. Not only by the every-day cyborgs we see at Starbucks or the vegetarian versus omnivore debate we taste in kitchens. But by the very news we hear in TV rooms. <\/p>\n

My friends, news stations are a business. They must deliver the news, but they must also deliver ratings. And so our news today is flavored, “super sized” and seasoned to our own tastes. FOX News is sour to many of us here tonight. MSNBC is our sugary-dessert, best consumed sparingly. CNN and NBC are slightly sweetened. And PBS serves up the starchy facts, arguably the best for you but a tad boring.<\/p>\n

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Criticize\u00a0FOX\u00a0News\u00a0or MSNBC all you want, but the networks are only showing what viewers want to see. What we have, my friends, is a media Catch-22: to be better informed, Americans need high-quality, independent journalism; but\u00a0if news organizations want to stay in business, they need more sophisticated viewers. Put another way, viewers wish\u00a0FOX\u00a0News\u00a0would be more like PBS, but they do not watch PBS.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to today\u2019s media echo-chambers, special interest groups and the legacy of Citizens United<\/em>, the myth of the great American president is just that. Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton are revered as the last great American presidents. It is no surprise they led before the age of Twitter. Before the age of 24-7 news where every comment is endlessly sliced and diced\u2014not because it is significant but because it is airtime. To quote the legendary comedian-turned New York Senator Jon Stewart, \u201cIf we amplify everything, we hear nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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And so we must say to every American: Look beyond the stereotypes or disagreements that blind us. [Wink at Clintons]<\/strong> We need each other. We don’t have a person to waste. And yet for too long politicians have told those of us who are doing all right that what’s really wrong with America is the rest of us. Them<\/em>. Them, the minorities. Them, the liberals. Them, the poor. Them, the homeless. Them, the people with disabilities. Them, the gays. We’ve gotten to where we’ve nearly them-ed ourselves to death. Them and them and them. But this is America. There is no them; there’s only us. One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. That is our Pledge of Allegiance, and that’s what the Moats Plan is all about. <\/p>\n

How do I know we can come together and make change happen? Because I have seen it in my own state. In Georgia, we’re working together and we’re making progress. No, there’s no Georgia miracle. But there are a lot of miraculous people. And because of them, our schools are better, our wages are higher, our factories are busier, our water is cleaner and our budget is balanced. We’re moving ahead.<\/p>\n

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I wish I could say the same thing about America under the incumbent President Rubio. He took the richest country in the world and brought it down. We took one of the poorest states in America and lifted it up.<\/p>\n

And so I say to all those in this campaign season who would criticize Georgia: Come on down. Especially, especially if you’re from Washington, come on down. Come for a drive down Peachtree Street. Come see our booming Tech-tree Valley. Come see our perennial Super Bowl Champion Atlanta Falcons and World Series Champion Atlanta Braves. Come see how Coca Cola XIII is bottled. <\/p>\n

Sure, you’ll see us struggling against some of the problems we haven’t solved yet. But you’ll also see a lot of great people doing amazing things. And you might even learn a thing or two. And y\u2019all come back real soon now!<\/p>\n

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PART 4: CONTEXT-THE WORLD IN 2040<\/strong><\/p>\n

My friends, the globe\u2019s demographics have changed greatly since 2012. The world is nine billion strong now. Europe and East Asia are \u201cold-age homes\u201d. 1\/3 people are older than 65. Working-class populations have fallen by 1\/10 in China<\/a>, \u00bc in Europe, and nearly \u00bd in Japan. China moves\u2014however unevenly\u2014towards democracy. The Cold War II is over, and we won. China\u2019s Communist-Capitalism lost to America\u2019s Capitalist-Capitalism. <\/p>\n

My friends, the Cold War was the first and longest (1945-1989) economic war. But it wasn\u2019t the last. There have actually been numerous wars fought on the economic battlefield since 1945. Bankers and lawyers are these wars\u2019 foot-soldiers. Gordon Gecko\u2019s \u201cGreed is good\u201d, not \u201cBe all you can be\u201d is the creed. Japan and the United States waged war during the 1980s and 1990s. The prized jewels this time were not Pacific islands or commonwealths but billion dollar corporations (Toyota, Coca Cola). But a real estate bubble left-hook and crony capitalism haymaker KO\u2019d Japan into a Lost Decade. And a larger foe entered the ring: China.<\/p>\n

It was a battle of the titans. East versus West. A resurgent ancient power pitted against a fading prodigy. Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke were our generals of the 2010s by day. Chinese hackers broke into Google accounts and both sides scanned for national electric grid weak-points by night. The monthly China-USA trade deficit demarcated our ever-changing tide of war. We bombarded China in recent years with manufacturing\u2014not bullets. Meanwhile, the floating yuan tick-tocked as China\u2019s time bomb.<\/p>\n

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My friends, China\u2019s economy just surpassed $123 trillion. China\u2019s per capita income just surpassed $85,000<\/a>, more than double Europe\u2019s. But China\u2019s 2010s real estate bubble popped and its aging population had to be paid for.\u00a0Taiwan is now China\u2019s Wall Street Island. Today, an uneasy economic alliance has been forged. The global economy is split in two. China is the globe\u2019s great manufacturing economy; we are the globe\u2019s great service economy. But both sides agree democracy and capitalism is the way forward. <\/p>\n

Now, the Middle East has democratized. The fa\u00e7ade of Arab strongmen cracked. The rusted monuments and rebar exposed depraved men clinging to fists full of petro-dollars. Their towering walls of brick and mortar were no match for the pixellated Facebook walls of ones and zeroes. <\/p>\n

14-year-old Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban on a ruthless school bus shoot-out in Afghanistan in 2012. In 2040, 42-year-young Prime Minister Malala Yousafzai leads Afghanistan towards a path of education and reform and hunts down the last vestiges of the Taliban. <\/p>\n

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Yes, Iran got the bomb in the late 2010s, but the region\u2019s true explosion was its population–not its nuclear power. 60% of the Arab world population was under the age 25 back in 2012. These youths were born after the fall of the Shah of Iran but just in time for friend requests. Tahrir Square emblazoned the generation with its own moment. And they were more committed to make it last. <\/p>\n

Their democracy was stamped \u201cMade in Cairo\u201d and \u201cMade in Damascus\u201d with young heroes\u2014and growing pains\u2014all their own. These youths no longer had to listen to their grandfathers recount their revolutions. These youths had revolutions and protests\u2014all their own. <\/p>\n

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Yes, we saw the rumblings of discontent during the Arab Spring of the 2010s. Lawyers, bloggers and students toppled Muammar\u00a0Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, and Bashar\u00a0al-Assad with grassroot protests from the bottom-up. But the top-down change came when the youths of the 2010s\u2014long fed up with chronic unemployment and rising global grain prices\u2014matured into the more moderate leaders of the 2030s. <\/p>\n

My friends, the United States is different than 2012, sure, but it\u2019s also stronger than ever. We are younger, more diverse, more urban, and more Southern than ever before. Whites\u2014like myself\u2014became a racial minority earlier this year. My opponent and the Republican party as a whole fear these changes. I do not. I welcome it. Because, my friends, we were always a nation of immigrants and we always will be. To NOT quote the late George Wallace, Immigration Now,\u00a0Immigration Tomorrow, Immigration Forever!<\/p>\n