The programme focuses on the environment, the circular economy, minority rights, health, military and diplomatic reform

It may have been the pandemic that has hit the United States hard, or perhaps the violated rights of Hispanic minorities, or perhaps racial segregation that continues even if in other forms or the enormous social and economic inequality that exists among the population or perhaps contempt for the environment or perhaps the lack of the right to medical care for the low-income population or perhaps… all these things together have propelled the Dalai Lama to run for the presidency of the United States.

No one knows whether the Dalai Lama’s decision to run for the highest political position in the United States comes from compassion for the situation in the richest and most powerful country on the planet. or whether it is the last political act of an international leader,an act of love towards Americans, to which one could not escape.

According to the men closest to the Dalai Lama the program would be synthetic but effective:

• Environmental protection:progressive reduction in funding for oil and gas extraction and refinery activities in all forms. Incentive with state subsidies to the centrality of the use of renewable energy. Reconversion of the fleet of cars, trucks, trains running on electricity, as long as the use of energy is made through sustainable electricity. Imposing emission limits on air traffic. Disposal of coal-fired power plants and investment in the conversion of nuclear power plants from fission technology to fusion technology.

• Circular economy: public investment in recycling with a focus on recycling, mechanical recycling, chemicals, thermal energy production and the production of biogas from the wet fraction. Opening a discussion table with companies that produce packaging to impose a decalogue for the production of totally recyclable packaging.
  Imposing the use of recycled polymers in finished products, except for sanitary products or in the food sector in contact with the contained product. Controlled recycling of electrical waste and polluting and hazardous waste. Prohibition of export of untreated waste.

• Minority rights:authorization to stay in the country for those who have a stable job and the family, management of migration flows through family reunifications that are economically sustainable for the family that will welcome. The creation of quotas is solidarity with households arriving at the borders. Aid to refugee departure states to reduce border pressures. Moral, social and working parification for African-American minorities and others in the territory, access to schools with school subsidies based on family income.

• Health reform:the right to health for all inhabitants with contribution to the cost of the state by the most affluent. Strengthening Obamacare reform in all states with state investment in health insurance policies. Americans’ right to live healthy while respecting people’s dignity.

• Military expenditure: the US military drains, from the resources of the state, huge sums and, as with the oil lobbies, also that of weapons pushes for a continuous consumption of war equipment. It remains the right to defend one’s country, a radical reform that cuts back the army to the protection of its territory and not to the internationalization of the arms business, bringing together the savings to improve the social conditions of American citizens. Changing international relations with détente and equal diplomatic relations with all the countries of the world. Erasing the supremacy of psychology towards foreign countries and collaborations to create joint projects.

Then, the alarm went off and I realized I was dreaming.

Automatic translation. We apologize for any inaccuracies. Original article in Italian.