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The '''Articles of Unity''', also known as '''Unity 2020''', is a grass roots political movement started by the public intellectual and evolutionary biologist [[Bret Weinstein]] that seeks to provide an alternative third ticket for the [[2020 United States presidential election]] to avoid electing either [[Joe Biden]] or [[Donald Trump]]. The Unity 2020 ticket will consist of two candidates drafted from the left and the right who have agreed to govern as a team with the president of the ticket being chosen by a coin flip. They would try to make decisions by consensus and the president would only make a decision in a case that there could not be consensus or in the case of an emergency. Unity 2020 has currently selected [[Tulsi Gabbard]] and [[Dan Crenshaw]] to be the two candidates but neither person has yet to state publicly if they will run on the ticket.
== Beginnings ==
[[Bret Weinstein]] first proposed Unity 2020 by posting a whitepaper entitled "Articles of Unity: A Patriotic Plan To Save Our Republic" on the website medium on June 29, 2020 that outlined the basic tenants of the proposal<ref>{{Cite web|last=#Unity2020|title=The Articles of Unity|url=https://medium.com/@ArticlesOfUnity/the-articles-of-unity-f544f930d336|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|website=Medium|language=en|date=June 29, 2020}}</ref>. The largest announcement was on [[The Joe Rogan Experience]] podcast episode #1494 on June 18, 2020<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Joe Rogan Experience #1494 - Bret Weinstein|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRCzZp1J0v0&feature=youtu.be&t=5499|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-19|website=www.youtube.com|date=June 18, 2020}}</ref> which to date has over 6,300,000 views on Youtube.
== Motivation ==
The Articles of Unity and the Unity 2020 movement stems out of a concern that the current Democratic and Republican parties in the United States are consumed by extreme partisanship and show a lack of leadership at the highest levels of government. As the most highlighted line in [[Bret Weinstein]]’s white paper on the website Medium about the Articles of Unity states: "The need for leadership has never been greater. Yet, the parties have never offered less."<ref>{{Cite web|last=#Unity2020|title=The Articles of Unity|url=https://medium.com/@ArticlesOfUnity/the-articles-of-unity-f544f930d336|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-19|website=Medium|language=en|date=June 29, 2020}}</ref> Pew polls suggest that 87% of Americans are at least fairly worried about the "ability of Political leaders to solve the country's problems" with nearly half of Americans (48%) being very worried and a majority (55%) think that the federal government has negative impacts on problems in the United States<ref>{{Cite web|last=Parker|first=Kim|last2=Morin|first2=Rich|last3=Menasce Horowitz|first3=Juliana|date=2019-03-21|title=Public Sees America's Future in Decline on Many Fronts|url=https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2019/03/21/public-sees-an-america-in-decline-on-many-fronts/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-03|website=Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project|language=en-US}}</ref>. A majority of voters (89%) think that political corruption is a "crisis" or a "significant problem"<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rasmussen|first=Scott|date=April 25, 2019|title=Voters Rate Political Corruption as America's Biggest Crisis {{!}} RealClearPolitics|url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/25/voters_rate_political_corruption_as_americas_biggest_crisis_140156.html|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-03|website=www.realclearpolitics.com}}</ref>. Additionally, Unity 2020 claims that there are a large number of Americans that fall into the “exhausted majority” (a term coined by the Hidden Tribes<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Hawkins|first1=Stephen|url=https://hiddentribes.us|title=Hidden Tribes: A Study of America's Polarized Landscape|last2=Yudkin|first2=Daniel|last3=Juan-Torres|first3=Míriam|last4=Dixon|first4=Tim|publisher=More in Common|year=2018}}</ref> report that consists of Americans with political opinions between the far left and far right) that can form the base of support for the Unity 2020 movement for the [[2020 United States presidential election]]. Independent voters are the fastest growing group of voters with about 40% of Americans identifying as independent<ref>{{Cite web|last=Maloyed|first=Christie|date=2019-06-05|title=The rise of the independent voter?|url=https://thecurrentla.com/2019/the-rise-of-the-independent-voter/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-03|website=The Current|language=en-US}}</ref>.
== Concept ==
[[Bret Weinstein]] has discussed the Articles of Unity on multiple media outlets. The concept behind Articles of Unity, as described on its website<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Vision|url=http://articlesofunity.org/the-vision/|access-date=2020-08-19|website=Unity2020|language=en-US}}</ref>, is that two candidates would be drafted from the left and the right. A coin flip decides who runs at the top of the ticket as president. When elected they would agree to govern as a team. Only when they do not agree or in the case of war or emergency can the president make a decision without consultation with the vice president. After four years, the president and vice president would trade positions.
[[Bret Weinstein]] outlines three minimum criteria for the two candidates, although he does not defined the qualities in detail:
# Patriotic
# Highly Capable
# Courageous
The Articles of Unity and the Unity 2020 movement claims that this plan can avoid being a spoiler for the [[2020 United States presidential election]] because it disempowers both Democratic and Republican parties by drawing candidates from both sides of the political divide. There is also a fail safe; if there is no viable path to the presidency for the Unity 2020 ticket then the race will be suspended.
== Articles of Unity and Unity 2020 in the media ==
Since announcing this on [[The Joe Rogan Experience|The Joe Rogan Experience,]] [[Bret Weinstein]] has appeared on many media outlets discussing the idea, such as the [[National Review]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=NR Interview|title=The Unity 2020 Ticket: An Interview with Bret Weinstein|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/interview-bret-weinstein-unity-2020-ticket-proposal/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|website=National Review|language=en-US|date=July 30, 2020}}</ref>, [[Rising (news show)|Rising]] on the [[The Hill TV|Hill TV]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Rising - The Hill TV- Unity 2020 Plan|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptrrDfDGzqs|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-19|website=www.youtube.com}}</ref>, [[Tucker Carlson Tonight]] on [[Fox News|Fox]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Bret Weinstein Introduces the Unity 2020 Plan on Tucker Carlson Tonight|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4H-0S89pxU|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=www.youtube.com|date=June 29, 2020}}</ref>, [[Triggernometry (podcast)|Tiggernometry]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kisin|first=Konstantin|last2=Foster|first2=Francis|date=|title=Bret Weinstein - We Can Stop a Civil War|url=https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/watch/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-29|website=Triggernometry|language=en-AU}}</ref>, The Respondent<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ellis|first=Greg|date=|title=The Respondent Episode 5 - Bret Weinstein|url=https://www.thinkspot.com/online_content/greg-ellis/the-respondent-episode-5-bret-weinstein/YOuydD/Event|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-29|website=The Respondent on www.thinkspot.com|publication-date=August 16, 2020}}</ref>, What Bitcoin Did<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=#Unity2020: Ending the Two-Party System with Bret Weinstein|url=https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/unity2020-ending-the-two-party-system-with-bret-weinstein|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-29|website=What Bitcoin Did|language=en-US|publication-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref>, Conversations with Tom<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Bret Weinstein on Ending Cancel Culture, Avoiding Civil War and How We can Unity|url=https://impacttheory.com/episode/bret-weinstein/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=Conversations with Tom on Impact Theory.com|publication-date=August 6, 2020}}</ref>, and the Charlie and Ben podcast<ref>{{Citation|title=Bret Weinstein On Emotionally Driven Politics And Charisma In Presidential Elections|url=https://soundcloud.com/charlie-ben-podcast/bret-weinstein-on-emotionally-driven-politics-and-charisma-in-presidential-elections|language=en|access-date=2020-08-19}}</ref>. The website Big Think has also published an article discussing the idea<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-02|title=How #Unity2020 plans to end the two-party system, bring back Andrew Yang|url=https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/unity2020|access-date=2020-08-19|website=Big Think|language=en}}</ref>. [[Reason magazine]] has also published a piece and a video discussing Unity 2020 and compared it to previous and other modern political movements<ref>{{Cite web|last=Weissmueller|first=Zach|date=2020-08-28|title=Can the Republican Party Survive Trump?|url=https://reason.com/video/can-the-republican-party-survive-trump/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-29|website=Reason.com|language=en-US|publication-date=August 28, 2020}}</ref>. There have also been other publications that have published articles on it like the Windermere Sun<ref>{{Cite news|last=Nunamaker|first=Susan Sun|date=July 2, 2020|title=The Articles of Unity, A Patriotic Plan To Save Our Republic|work=Windermere Sun|url=https://www.windermeresun.com/2020/07/02/the-articles-of-unity-a-patriotic-plan-to-save-our-republic/|url-status=live|access-date=August 30, 2020}}</ref>.
Some controversy has arisen when [[Twitter]] banned the Articles of Unity account with no explanation<ref>{{Cite web|last=Harper|first=Cindy|date=2020-08-31|title=Twitter suspends account of non-partisan group Articles of Unity|url=https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-suspends-articles-of-unity/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-03|website=Reclaim The Net|language=en-US}}</ref>.
== List of endorsements ==
[[Melissa Chen]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Melissa Chen twitter account|url=https://twitter.com/msmelchen/status/1293306682282565634|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-19|website=Twitter|language=en}}</ref> (Journalist)
[[Matt Taibbi]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Bret Weinstein and Matt Taibbi: Corruption and its Consequences|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xojSWHrar9A|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=www.youtube.com|date=July 18, 2020}}</ref> (Journalist)
John Wood Jr.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Unity2020 Campfire With Bret Weinstein, John Wood Jr. & Nate Boyer|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeUOvxX-zLI|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=www.youtube.com|date=August 12, 2020}}</ref> (Public intellectual, a former congressional nominee, former Vice-Chairman of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County)
[[Nate Boyer]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Unity2020 Campfire With Bret Weinstein, John Wood Jr. & Nate Boyer|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeUOvxX-zLI|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=www.youtube.com|date=August 12, 2020}}</ref> (Former professional American football player and Green Beret)
[[Eric Weinstein]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Unity 2020 Campfire Discussion - Bret and Eric Weinstein|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXPVe-YHDzo|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|website=www.youtube.com|date=August 5, 2020}}</ref> (Managing director at Thiel Capital and podcast host)
== External links ==
* [https://articlesofunity.org Articles of Unity Website]
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