Left, right. Conservative, liberal. President, representative, governor, dog catcher. No matter how, or for whom, you vote, you need some criterion to pick the best candidates.

Here’s a tip (especially for this year’s go ’round): just vote for anyone who isn’t an a-hole. Yes, it’s a low bar. But, face it, it’s low-bar election cycle.

Lucky for you, back in 2010, I created the ultimate peace symbol for the 21st century and beyond—an ingenious icon that, in a single letter, says “No A-Holes.”

Because it’s an “A.” With no hole.

Peace: A History
From 11th-century, peace-seeking French bishops to 1960s flower children, history is awash with the sincere and well-meaning petitioning the world to live in harmony. Thus far—after hundreds of wars, unforgivable atrocities, countless kerfuffles and, well, social media—the world has responded with a resounding: “Nah.”

Why? Because every peace movement to date has been too focused on platitudes not on people. Preaching peace with placards and plugging gun barrels with carnations can be engaging, even memorable, theater, but such efforts are all hampered by their top-down approach. Ironically, in peace’s case, mass appeals are largely unappealing.

Peace Plan A
Pardon the schmaltz, but that’s because true peace starts from within. That neighbor who’s on your case about your property line, the bird-flipping road rager, the lowlife landlord, right up to deplorable demagogues, despots and dictators: if they simply looked in the mirror and renounced their a-hole-esque behavior, the world might have a chance to become the utopia of sunshine and mimosas we all seek.

But it will take more than converting the obvious offenders. It’ll take all of us. You. Me. Every single soul realizing we all can be a-holes from time to time.

So to formalize things and expedite our global pilgrimage toward turning Earth into, well, Mirth, I created a peace treaty of sorts: Peace Plan A.

The Peace Plan A homepage greets visitors with a two-line form that simply lets them pledge to not be an a-hole. Once everyone on the planet signs, we’ll be the envy of the galaxy—planet Grouchtron on the sketchy side of the Milky Way, especially.

A-vangelize
Of course, once one experiences a significant life moment like shedding their inner jerk, one can’t help but share their epiphany with others. Visit PeacePlanA.com and find all sorts of ways, including donning something like this:

Sign Peace Plan A today and let’s make a post-a-hole world a reality.