Transhumanist Politics

There has been a lot of speculation about a possible transhumanist political ideology. This could be a ideology which achieve something through influencing bigger party's (like the greens have). It could also be a full blown political party one day, lobbying for certain issues.


Here are some possible political ideas for issues that a transhumanist party would be concerned about.

I think some transhumanist issues are:

-Euthanasia in a way that preserves the brain (suitable for cryonics) although this is iffy as cryonics looks freaky enougth as it is.
-Approval for enhancing drugs, streamlining the regulatory process, and subsidising drug development.
-Science funding and positive regulation
-Research direction (science is already politicised...)
-Rights to enhancement, and rights for non-humans .
-Space regulations and investment
-Long-term environmental issues
-New political reform

Lets imagine our objective is to start a appealing political movement which will be beneficial to transhumanism. How would we do it, and what groups would we harness?
As transhumanists who are very future aware of future trends we should anticipate the trends and take advantage of that knowledge.
Here are some trends I think will come about (I have them from the united nations report and other politically orientated future documents - including sci-fi!):

-Increasing automation of work (increasing unemployment and luddite movement, and increasing socialist sentiments -as there have been historically)???

-Aging demographics. Way more old people than young because of fertility rates in western countries. This means health care medicine and research which is our bag! No problem especially if we are taking a socialistish platform to take advantage of growing unemployment and unions.

-Rising gap between the rich and poor, as more "god given" things like genetic quotient and aging become malleable to people with money. historically the poor have always been a more powerful lobby, but with the power and intelligence minimum each human has naturally being less relevant I don't know if this will continue.

-Increasing global instability, more enabled and visible terrorists, climate change, immigration pressure(?), bio tech health dangers. This will cause a trend to a political movement which causes feelings of safety (as will future shock), usually a heavy handed conservative movement (lets hope the luddites don't get all of these people).

any other you can think others?

Is anyone interested in helping me craft a political base? We can invite interested mailing lists, forums and party's to contribute to building a new future proofed movement using a wiki or forum (we will have trouble with political infighting in these mediums though!). A movement which will pass beyond the traditional left right infighting and help shape the future.

P.S a tranhumanst oreintated political party in britain is the consensus. www.theconsensus.org