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Platform of Hope: Ideas Both Conservatives and Liberals Can Love
Worried political divisions could destroy one of the world’s greatest nations? Explore a unique perspective to help America thrive.
Interested in answering the toughest policy-making questions? Do you desire a way to end the polarization that’s bringing this country down? Want to understand values that can connect Democrats and Republicans together? Friendly Canadian, frequent world traveler, and self-made philosopher Timothy Bult channeled his passion for learning about governments and listening to people from all walks of life. Now he’s here to share his carefully cultivated ideas on how to solve some of the biggest problems facing the United States and bring positive change to millions of lives.
Platform of Ideas Both Conservatives and Liberals Can Love is a thought-provoking and engaging conversation on the federal issues that dominate modern politics. As a long-term U.S. resident and taxpayer with friends on either side of the party line, Bult discusses hot-button topics using facts and opposing points of view while considering solutions that could appeal to both the red and blue. And by opening up your mind to opportunities for agreement, you can help reduce hatred and build a stronger America.
In Platform of Hope , you’ll
- Why the U.S. Constitution is a bedrock of liberty and how we can uphold its noble legacy
- Ways to prevent becoming paralyzed by today’s polarization so you can be part of this country moving forward
- Values held by both sides of the great political debate that will allow you to hold differing views yet still align with others
- Governing principles that were founded in enlightenment and how you are an essential part of a nation built on the ability to change
- How personal freedom, free markets, and a leaner government can be the path to a better future, and much, much more!
Platform of Ideas Both Conservatives and Liberals Can Love is an outsider's love letter to his adopted home. If you like open-minded inquiry, civic solutions, and good-natured teachings, then you’ll be transformed by Timothy Bult’s balanced discussion.
Buy Platform of Hope to cross the divide today!
Interested in answering the toughest policy-making questions? Do you desire a way to end the polarization that’s bringing this country down? Want to understand values that can connect Democrats and Republicans together? Friendly Canadian, frequent world traveler, and self-made philosopher Timothy Bult channeled his passion for learning about governments and listening to people from all walks of life. Now he’s here to share his carefully cultivated ideas on how to solve some of the biggest problems facing the United States and bring positive change to millions of lives.
Platform of Ideas Both Conservatives and Liberals Can Love is a thought-provoking and engaging conversation on the federal issues that dominate modern politics. As a long-term U.S. resident and taxpayer with friends on either side of the party line, Bult discusses hot-button topics using facts and opposing points of view while considering solutions that could appeal to both the red and blue. And by opening up your mind to opportunities for agreement, you can help reduce hatred and build a stronger America.
In Platform of Hope , you’ll
- Why the U.S. Constitution is a bedrock of liberty and how we can uphold its noble legacy
- Ways to prevent becoming paralyzed by today’s polarization so you can be part of this country moving forward
- Values held by both sides of the great political debate that will allow you to hold differing views yet still align with others
- Governing principles that were founded in enlightenment and how you are an essential part of a nation built on the ability to change
- How personal freedom, free markets, and a leaner government can be the path to a better future, and much, much more!
Platform of Ideas Both Conservatives and Liberals Can Love is an outsider's love letter to his adopted home. If you like open-minded inquiry, civic solutions, and good-natured teachings, then you’ll be transformed by Timothy Bult’s balanced discussion.
Buy Platform of Hope to cross the divide today!
165 pages, Paperback
Published October 11, 2020
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About the author
Timothy Bult
5 books11 followersHello fellow readers! I was born in the mountains of British Columbia, to Dutch immigrants Roelof & Ineke. I grew up skiing, reading a novel a day, and fascinated with science and literature. After high school I moved to Vancouver to study at UBC. After a year in France to obtain a Maitrise d’Informatique (Master’s in Computer Science), I completed a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence research back at UBC again. I did industrial AI work at Bell-Northern Research in Ottawa for three years, then returned to BC yet again to work at MacDonald Dettwiler Associates (MDA), in systems engineering for various governments around the world. After 27 years based in Vancouver, visiting China, Israel, most of the United States, and pockets of the Middle East & Europe, I moved to Milwaukee with my ravishing, super-talented, hyper-intelligent and hyper educated partner.
I work at large companies managing global business transformations. While much of my writing is either classified or proprietary, I have published some nonfiction articles. Writing fiction has been a lifelong hobby, now becoming a second career. I will be very happy to receive feedback on my writing — please leave reviews on public websites, or contact me through www.TimothyBult.com or social media.
I work at large companies managing global business transformations. While much of my writing is either classified or proprietary, I have published some nonfiction articles. Writing fiction has been a lifelong hobby, now becoming a second career. I will be very happy to receive feedback on my writing — please leave reviews on public websites, or contact me through www.TimothyBult.com or social media.
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November 8, 2022
I appreciate what the author has attempted to do here, and I think he has done it with a dose of (Canadian?) humility that befits what is essentially a layperson’s policy manifesto. With topics as diverse as military funding/strategy, abortion rights, and tax policy receiving a few pages each, there are surely a number of gross oversimplifications. (Also, while he professes to listen to viewpoints on both sides of the spectrum—which I applaud—the author mostly cites the Economist, which, while less ideologically biased than many sources, is not infallible and is not necessarily written by policy experts, in itself.)
I share the author’s desire for policy ideas that represent compromise, even in these polarized times. It’s nice to know that I’m not alone in that regard—and to see someone publicly hold positions that, at turns, hardline Democrats or Republicans might find objectionable. That raises to 4 stars what might otherwise have been 3.
But it’s a quick read, and should inspire readers to think for themselves about the political path forward, rather than hewing entirely to one side’s talking points. Whether one agrees entirely with any of the author’s positions—some of which, by 2022, are already anachronistic—is perhaps beside the point.
I share the author’s desire for policy ideas that represent compromise, even in these polarized times. It’s nice to know that I’m not alone in that regard—and to see someone publicly hold positions that, at turns, hardline Democrats or Republicans might find objectionable. That raises to 4 stars what might otherwise have been 3.
But it’s a quick read, and should inspire readers to think for themselves about the political path forward, rather than hewing entirely to one side’s talking points. Whether one agrees entirely with any of the author’s positions—some of which, by 2022, are already anachronistic—is perhaps beside the point.
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