THANK YOU, MASSACHUSETTS!!!
Unfortunately, I didn’t win the election. That’s okay. Life goes on, and I have to move on to something else, too.
Thank you to all my supporters, voters, friends, and family who kept me grounded during a stressful election season.
I’ll keep the campaign website up for a few more weeks but it’ll come down by the end of the year. Stay safe, reader; this might be a dark winter.
The world is facing challenges like never before.
Our complex and interdependent systems are breaking down. Climate change is forcing enormous strain on governments across the world, leading to unprecedented desertification, food shortages, civil unrest, massive drought, forced migration, ocean acidification, and other downstream factors. Immediate, robust, and international action needs to be taken to prevent the collapse of the earth’s ecosystem that supports all human life.
Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging the United States and the rest of the world, crashing a corrupt and avaricious economy propelled by the momentum of unsubstantiated speculation and deception. Massive economic overhaul—including a Medicare-For-All Healthcare System and a Universal Basic Income—is necessary to safeguard ordinary American citizens and their interests in this turbulent new age.
Democracy, international law, and the social contract is unraveling at home and abroad. The very foundations of the postwar liberal order are under siege, and they must be defended. President Trump is just one symptom of the deeper rot, irrationality, and greed that underpins the decay of civilized society and the rise of this impatient id chipping away at modern life. I believe it’s time to make some serious Constitutional changes and renew our commitment to modern America. This campaign is about nothing less than preventing the collapse of civilization as we know it. Politicians often claim climate change is an emergency, but none actually treat it like the existential issue it is. This is the #1 issue of our time.
Being an independent candidate means that I don’t fully align with any political party. I believe the two-party system is anti-competitive and anti-intellectual. You probably won’t agree 100% with all my positions, and that’s fine. I respect that we all have diverse beliefs, but coming together on common ground is much better than magnifying wedge issues to further divide us.
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
-George Washington’s Farewell Address, September 17, 1796
Who am I, Jon Lott?
Born and raised in Stoughton, Jon Lott is an international educator who has taught in several schools across New England, China, and Saudi Arabia.
Issues Summary
Preventing Our Ecological Collapse
The human species is at risk of extinction unless we act together, maturely, and soon.
We are responsible.
COVID-19
Read the campaign’s announcement regarding COVID-19 and respecting health officials.
The Need to Overhaul American Healthcare
COVID-19 has laid bare inadequacies in the way we do healthcare in America.
We have to change.
The Economy
Why is the stock market up despite widespread economic ruin and joblessness?
It’s complicated and unjust.
War and Peace in the World Today
We live in a complex world.
The need for international cooperation has never been greater.
Our Environment
Our earth is too precious to continue business as usual.
Society means nothing unless it’s sustainable.
Structural Change for Our Government
The Founding Fathers gave us the tools to change government.
It’s time we use them.
More Issues
Regulations, tech policy, guns, social issues, local affairs, national service, drug laws, and more.
