These are challenges that do not have evident answers at the beginning and for which there is no historical precedent. There is no certainty of success on which to rely.

They are challenges that require committed individual engagement and also collective alignment and effort maintained over an extended period of time. This is the reason that “ordinary” is not good enough and we have to model true American greatness to be successful. For example:

1. We take on climate change and deal with the various impacts
2. We take on comprehensive immigration reform
3. We take on the economic revitalization of rural America
4. We take on closing wage and wealth disparities
5. We continue to counter racism
6. We build our solidarity and minimize socio/political polarization and the alienation that increasingly affects us
7. We take on the challenges of rapidly developing AI
8. We ensure the basics for people – food security, housing, equitable cost-effective healthcare, education, safe communities, etc.
9. We hold the line against terrorism and aggressive authoritarian regimes that threaten the America and the American experiment
10. We respect our diversity of political and social beliefs and use it to creatively deal with the new challenges constantly thrown at us – together