Thread by @homemadeguitars

One of the challenges often thrown across my path is, "How are you going to force people to do this?"
So allow me to address that question.

2. I asked you to pretend something earlier. Here I go again.
Pretend I'm the President's chosen advisor. Pretend we have an actual functioning legislature. So what I say, goes. OK?
Here we go.

3. The Federal government would aquire all the large farms possible. First, they would buy all farms in bankruptcy sales. Second, they would offer market rates to willing farm sellers nationwide. No forced sales.
Lots of bankrupt and retirement age farmers out there.

4. Third, the government would write up a set of low energy bylaws modeled partly on Amish church district Ordnung (Ordinances) and partly on suburban / condo HOAs. Enforceable, land title linked. These would require biological energy, human or animal, with wind-down provision.

5. Fourth, the government would subdivide its land base acquired above into 5 to 10 acre smallholdings with community commons along waterways and other places where appropriate.

5. Fifth, the government would subsidize hardware, clothing, and food stores within walking distance of every smallholding created above.
Finally, the government would offer a stipend, a donkey (from US feral stock), and small house materials and assistance, on a smallholding,

6. to Americans who would apply for the program.
That's it. That's what I would do.
We guarantee profitablity to companies all the time.
Anyone who can't stick with the agreement can go back to the high energy world. No punishment, just - live like this or somewhere else.

7. Obviously, this is short. But - this nation desperately needs people to heal its land. We have an entire hardscrabble lower class living in cars and cardboard boxes. Offer them better, with help, and let them fix it.

8. Build and support local, low energy, food producing, land healing, zero emissions or nearly so, communities where thousand acre soybean or corn deserts are now. See which lifestyle wins. Make it so people aren't forced to have cars and buy insurance and gasoline.
Then see.