AXES BEFORE TAXES
MARTIN 2028 – Put a Viking in the Oval Office
Campaign Promises \u2013 Sacred Cow Edition<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I will treat the Constitution the way most politicians already do: as a decorative shield.<\/strong> Elections will be rebranded as formalized raids.<\/strong> The military will keep its budget, but lose the mythology.<\/strong> Free speech will be protected exactly as far as the powerful find useful.<\/strong> The American Dream will be updated to match the math.<\/strong> Expertise and \u201cthe science\u201d will be treated as tools, not oracles.<\/strong> Patriotism will be optional and non-theatrical.<\/strong> Identity will stop being treated as destiny or moral currency.<\/strong> The news will be recognized as a combat arm.<\/strong> When the system fails, I will not promise to \u201crestore faith in institutions.\u201d<\/strong> Rename The White House to The White Longhouse<\/strong> Replace the national anthem<\/strong>
We\u2019ll hang it on the wall, recite selected bits with great solemnity, and then govern exactly as power and convenience require. The only difference is I\u2019ll stop pretending the parchment is in charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We already pour enormous resources into capturing territory (voters), plant flags, declare victory, and then largely ignore the people who live there until the next cycle. Might as well drop the civic poetry and call it what the incentives have made it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No more \u201cdefending freedom\u201d speeches while the actual mission stays flexible. We\u2019ll just say the quiet part: large, permanent armed forces exist because great powers keep them. The rest is storytelling for the home crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ll be honest about the current arrangement. You may speak freely until your words threaten something the system actually values. Then the consequences arrive wearing different clothes\u2014platform rules, career damage, or selective enforcement. The principle remains optional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Work hard, follow the rules, and you too can\u2026 compete for a shrinking share of security while the people who already have the longships keep the better harbor. I\u2019ll stop selling the old map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When data serves the preferred story it will be called settled. When it doesn\u2019t, it will be called complicated, incomplete, or in need of further study. I\u2019ll simply admit the pattern instead of demanding reverence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No more mandatory emotional performances at sporting events, political rallies, or school assemblies. Love of place is fine. Compulsory displays of it are just another loyalty test, and loyalty tests are for weaker systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Group membership will neither grant automatic virtue nor automatic guilt. The Viking position is simple: judge the person in front of you by what they do, not by the banner they were handed at birth. Everything else is politics wearing a moral mask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not a neutral mirror of reality, but a set of factions fighting for narrative territory. I\u2019ll stop asking it to be something it hasn\u2019t been in a long time and start treating it as the battlefield it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Faith is what you demand when performance no longer justifies itself. I\u2019d rather the public keep its skepticism sharp. Institutions that need belief more than results are already halfway to the burial mound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Designate Trump’s new ballroom as Valhalla Hall staffed by Valkyries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s violent and hard to sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n