On 27 August 2026, I was on Glenn Diesen’s popular podcast, where we had a wide-ranging discussion about the structural changes that have taken place in the international system since the Cold War that first led us into the unipolar moment — which many people viewed as the “end of history” — and then into the new multipolar world — which is downright dangerous and promises to remain so.
I emphasized that those structural changes not only had an effect on how states behave, but the movement from unipolarity to multipolarity also left most academics and most members of the foreign elite ignorant of how great power politics work. After all there was only one great power in unipolarity, so great power politics was effectively taken off the table. Of course, it has come back with a vengeance. Our elites, however, both inside and outside universities, are still stuck in time, imagining that anyone who thinks in terms of basic realist logic is a dinosaur. One can rest assured that Chinese, Iranian, and Russian leaders don’t have that problem. Moreover, those same Western elites have little knowledge of nuclear strategy and deterrence theory, because those subjects were of little relevance during the unipolar moment.
The world is not dangeroes. The world gives us a place to live, food, nature.
The danger is Money and the corrupt greedy motherfnckrz that are more addicted to money then a junky to fentanyl.
Once we detox the clowns the world will still be the world. A safe place.
BUT WE NEED TO DETOX THE CLOWNS ASAP.
My name is Kevin C. Flynn, and I’m running for President in 2028 on a platform I call the NICE Formula. At its core is a simple equation: Sustainability = Interdependence × Empathy ÷ Narcissism. Sustainability here means more than environmental — it’s the long-term health and stability of a society. The more we cooperate, and the more we understand each other, the more sustainable — and the better off — we all are. The more any of us lets ego and self-interest override that, the worse things get. Everything else in this platform flows from that idea.
My foreign policy centers on what I call the Handsome Bouncer Theory: since World War II, the US should have kept the sea lanes open for commerce, largely minded our own business, and avoided meddling in other countries’ internal affairs. Lead by example. Concentrate on making our own country strong. I believe the world would look very different — and better — had we followed that path.
Domestically, I’ve developed a framework to reform the income tax system so it rewards cooperative economic behavior and taxes extractive behavior. Together, these ideas form a platform I’ve outlined in a course, summarized in two short films on my YouTube channel (kevinflynn2639).
I believe AI alignment is the single biggest existential threat we face. My course offers what I think is the best heuristic for aligning AI toward human flourishing — but I’d lean on people who understand the actual mechanics, like Geoffrey Hinton, Max Tegmark, and Yoshua Bengio, to test that claim rather than take my word for it.
Thirty years ago I predicted that countries like China would leapfrog US military dominance through cheaper, high-tech asymmetric methods like drones. That prediction has held up. We’re at a critical juncture now, and the only way to turn this ship around is through the political process — and the only office with the leverage to do it is the presidency.
My course doesn’t just diagnose the problems. It traces their roots and lays out a course correction.
Voices That Have Shaped This Platform
My thinking on foreign policy and restraint draws heavily on realist and anti-interventionist scholars and journalists who’ve spent decades warning about the costs of American overreach — among them John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, Chas Freeman, Trita Parsi, Jeffrey Sachs, Douglas MacGregor, Robert Pape, and Ian Proud. On the media and accountability side, independent journalists like Chris Hedges, Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Maté, Katie Halper, Cenk Uygur, Anna Kasparian, Scott Horton, and Daniel Davis have shaped how I think about the gap between official narratives and ground truth. Organizations like Code Pink, Democracy Now, and the Electronic Intifada, along with researchers like Larry Johnson, have also informed this work.
None of these people have endorsed my campaign or platform — I’m citing them because their independent analysis has influenced how I see the problem, and I think that will resonate with people already skeptical of the foreign policy consensus.