Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires policies to anticipate war, especially new forms of warfare. Cybersecurity is a critical vulnerability of America. Suggested countermeasures include closed architecture and VPN.

Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires policies to anticipate natural catastrophes like a world-wide solar flare. This happened in 1859 and was called the Carrington event. It would take years to replace the burned-out transformers and in the meantime we would have no electricity. Immediately write Congress to require circuit breakers and other protection for our electric grid.

Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires policies to prevent foreign interests, whether governments, corporations, or non-citizens, from buying Strategic Assets. Farmland should be owned only by American citizens.

Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires policies to protect minority positions and encourage compromise. The Constitution is not a “majority rules” document but one with checks and balances against the tyranny of the majority. Words like “uncompromising leaders” and “mandates” are causing majority parties to try to undermine the Constitution to get their agendas enacted. Term limits, protecting the filibuster, and making any law passed by Congress to be applied to Congress are just 3 of many ideas.

Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires policies to consider the assumptions, values, and expectations in a catastrophe to be realistic with no social media, no mass media, and no judiciary to air social grievances. Gender agendas will give way to common sense like treating genders separately but giving equal access.

Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires policies to be easily administered in catastrophic conditions. This means policies which can be administered without protracted judicial intervention. Voting districts should be drawn objectively without consideration to any identity-based criteria. Simply make the districts as square as possible within a 5% margin of error.

Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires policies to be flexible and neutral, like the Electoral College. In the event of a catastrophe, the Electoral College would still work to select the next president. Our founding fathers trusted that a small group would decide on a successor. The College is an underappreciated CHECK and BALANCE.

Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires governments and policies to be able to function in times of uncertainty. Restoring sovereignty is an example of making the government durable in times of crisis. Among the proposals are restoring sovereign immunity, abolishing sanctuary cities which undermine state or federal authority, and powers to impose martial law in catastrophe zones by a Declaration of Catastrophe.

Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires institutions and policies to evolve with technology, like making the post office in charge of e-mails, or the census bureau in charge of American databases.

Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires policies to be sustainable and streamlined for governance. The judiciary has not proven nimble enough to work in catastrophic situations. Among the several proposals in this blog is the 13th Judicial Circuit to split duties with the Supreme Court, fix the number of justices at nine, ending judges from imposing nationwide injunctions, and accelerated dispositions for certain national security cases.

Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires policies to be risk-averse. We must address border security issues with referring them to the 13th Judicial Circuit, building multiple Guantanamo Bay Detention Facilities throughout Central America, and opening up our internet to help foreigners prep for entry into America.

Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires policies to be freely discussed. The Supreme Court has twisted civil discourse beyond recognition so that it has now become the cancel culture of bullying, suppression, coercion, and intimidation. Free speech cannot include trespassing into private property or private ceremonies like funerals and speaking events.

Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires policies to be protective of Americans first. It is a systemic vulnerability that bureaucrats fail to anticipate unintended consequences of their muddle-headed policies. Examples include the “compassionate release” of jailed inmates and housing Covid-19 patients in nursing homes.

Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires policies to be self-governing in times of crisis. To some extent this requires reinstatement of Tenth Amendment protections. People must have certain rights when government is failing or nonexistent. Examples include gun rights, self-defense rights, stand-your ground rights, and protection of the homestead.

Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires policies to place no one above the law. Antitrust should be expanded to prevent interference like security forces or private armies. The powers of criminal organizations, gangs and cartels should be limited.

Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires policies to make America self-sufficient. Nuclear power should be financed by social security and create a hardened electric grid. However, research into microbiological sources for “fossil” fuels should be the long-term solution. Pollution-policies need to address space junk and ocean plastics. We must address the tragedy of the commons.

Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires policies to anticipate unintended consequences. We search for medical improvements to extend life without addressing the demographic consequences of when we live longer.

Catastrophic Thinking, using CAVEAT, requires policies to be resilient and sustainable. Education must continue even after a catastrophe. Online-based education should be a backstop to our school infrastructure for when it is destroyed. It would help reach the whole world if posted on the internet.