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 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. TheyThe movement currently planplans to gain ballot access in all 50 states by working with third-parties that already have ballot access and running on their ticket.
== Beginnings ==
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[[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 tenets 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>
== Motivation ==
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== Concept ==
[[File:Articles of Unity poster with logo.jpg|thumb|Articles of Unity poster on lamp post, Los Angeles, September 2020]]
[[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:
