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Embracing Proven Solutions
Country First isn't about specific policy prescriptions - and that's because neither party or perspective has a monopoly on solutions and good ideas. We're all about creating an environment where thoughtful, durable, and proven solutions can be discovered, debated, and embraced.
✓ REAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL
Too many families struggle to afford basics like childcare, education, and housing. Healthcare continues to spiral out of control without wages keeping pace. These are the problems both parties must tackle, and we won't solve them by sticking with the same party playbooks that got us here. We must use commonsense AND creativity, and we cannot worry about who gets the credit.
Let’s work to ensure that every kid — whether from the inner city or rural heartland, from a depressed town to an affluent suburb — knows in their bones that anything is possible in America. Let’s be the country that believes opportunity is both limitless and renewable — there’s enough to go around. And let’s strive to make this true for everyone — no matter who they are, or where they come from.
✓ CLIMATE & CONSERVATION
The natural world is our most important asset. In more recent years, the evidence that we face urgent challenges to protect the environment has become indisputable, and it’s clear the time to act is now. We must work together to mitigate the impacts of climate change and encourage conservation of the natural world.
Humankind has built awe inspiring civilizations, created life-saving technologies, and even put a man on the moon. There's no reason we can't tackle this challenge, too, and in a non-partisan way. Country First aims to discover proven solutions to our environmental and conservation challenges by bringing together businesses, environmentalists, global leaders, NGOs, and people like you.
✓ MENTAL HEALTH
Mental health matters just as much as our physical health, yet too often it is ignored, misunderstood and neglected. It is one of the biggest public health issues of today, impacting all aspects of society. We must change the conversation on mental health, tackle the stigmas, and encourage more people to talk openly about mental health. We want to ensure that everyone’s understanding of the need to keep mentally fit is on a par with what we know about the need to eat healthily and to exercise.
✓ CULTURE OF SERVICE
America’s civic health is in significant decline. We need to cultivate a greater sense of “we," which will require our nation to build bridges that span America's demographic divides and socioeconomic faultlines. One powerful idea to rebuild our civic bridges is encouraging a culture of national service -- an expectation and opportunity for young people as they come of age to perform a year or more of military or civilian national service. Such service would bring young people from different backgrounds, income levels, races, ethnicities, and areas of the country together in shared experiences to solve public challenges as they form their attitudes and habits early in life. Many would discover that they are leaders—the kind of leaders who could work across differences to get things done.
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Embracing Proven Solutions
Country First isn't about specific policy prescriptions - and that's because neither party or perspective has a monopoly on solutions and good ideas. We're all about creating an environment where thoughtful, durable, and proven solutions can be discovered, debated, and embraced.
✓ REAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL
Too many families struggle to afford basics like childcare, education, and housing. Healthcare continues to spiral out of control without wages keeping pace. These are the problems both parties must tackle, and we won't solve them by sticking with the same party playbooks that got us here. We must use commonsense AND creativity, and we cannot worry about who gets the credit.
Let’s work to ensure that every kid — whether from the inner city or rural heartland, from a depressed town to an affluent suburb — knows in their bones that anything is possible in America. Let’s be the country that believes opportunity is both limitless and renewable — there’s enough to go around. And let’s strive to make this true for everyone — no matter who they are, or where they come from.
✓ CLIMATE & CONSERVATION
The natural world is our most important asset. In more recent years, the evidence that we face urgent challenges to protect the environment has become indisputable, and it’s clear the time to act is now. We must work together to mitigate the impacts of climate change and encourage conservation of the natural world.
Humankind has built awe inspiring civilizations, created life-saving technologies, and even put a man on the moon. There's no reason we can't tackle this challenge, too, and in a non-partisan way. Country First aims to discover proven solutions to our environmental and conservation challenges by bringing together businesses, environmentalists, global leaders, NGOs, and people like you.
✓ MENTAL HEALTH
Mental health matters just as much as our physical health, yet too often it is ignored, misunderstood and neglected. It is one of the biggest public health issues of today, impacting all aspects of society. We must change the conversation on mental health, tackle the stigmas, and encourage more people to talk openly about mental health. We want to ensure that everyone’s understanding of the need to keep mentally fit is on a par with what we know about the need to eat healthily and to exercise.
✓ CULTURE OF SERVICE
America’s civic health is in significant decline. We need to cultivate a greater sense of “we," which will require our nation to build bridges that span America's demographic divides and socioeconomic faultlines. One powerful idea to rebuild our civic bridges is encouraging a culture of national service -- an expectation and opportunity for young people as they come of age to perform a year or more of military or civilian national service. Such service would bring young people from different backgrounds, income levels, races, ethnicities, and areas of the country together in shared experiences to solve public challenges as they form their attitudes and habits early in life. Many would discover that they are leaders—the kind of leaders who could work across differences to get things done.