That’s what I learned in the Navy and what I fought for in Afghanistan and Iraq. And it should continue to be the American way, too.
The Current System Is a Dinosaur with Botox
Let’s face it—our political system’s older than a Vegas Elvis impersonator with three ex-wives and a liver begging for mercy. The U.S. government was designed for a time when muskets and powdered wigs were considered cutting-edge. Today, we walk around with biometric scanners in our pockets while our elections still run on bubble ballots and dead people voting.
We vote like it’s 1804. Why aren’t we voting securely via biometrics on our cell phones? Facial recognition, thumbprint, hell—retina scan if you want to get fancy.
You can transfer a quarter-million in Bitcoin with a fingerprint, but casting a vote requires standing in line next to people sneezing on your neck like it’s a tuberculosis convention.
Campaign Finance: Buying Power Like It’s Discount Day at the Corruption Mart
Here’s the kicker: the only thing thicker than a Congressman’s wallet is the BS they spew. Unlimited campaign financing is legal bribery. We need hard caps on campaign donations. Treat it like UFC weight classes. Everyone plays within limits, or you get disqualified. Otherwise, billionaires keep buying laws like they’re picking up gum at the checkout line.
Gerrymandering: Legal Map-Rigging 101
Ever wonder why a district looks like it was drawn by a drunk hobo? That’s gerrymandering. Politicians carving up neighborhoods like it’s Thanksgiving turkey—purely to keep themselves in power. Both sides do it. It’s like playing poker with a marked deck.
Kill it. Make voting districts independent and algorithmically determined by AI that doesn’t give a crap about party lines.
Term Limits: Fresh Blood or Dead Meat?
The same faces keep showing up like bad extras in a Marvel movie. Nancy Pelosi’s worth is reportedly over $120 million, while her official salary sits at about $223,500 a year. That math doesn’t add up unless you’re a magician—or a politician in America. Anyone else would be sitting in a federal holding cell explaining themselves to a guy named Bubba.
We need term limits. Eight years. In, out, and move the hell on. Congress shouldn’t be a retirement home for people too lazy to get a real job.
Still the Greatest Experiment—But Tick Tock
Don’t get it twisted. This country is still the greatest experiment in government ever attempted. For the people, by the people—that’s the pitch. But unless we overhaul this dinosaur of a system, swap out its decaying organs for some 21st-century tech and accountability, we’re staring down the barrel of something uglier than your weird uncle’s militia Facebook group or that Duck Dynasty run at the capital we had a few years ago.
If we don’t do it voluntarily now, history has a way of doing it for us—through revolution, through collapse.
The fuse is burning. The only question is whether we put out the fire with change—or watch the whole damn thing explode.
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