Here is my proposal to save this country!
~ Introduction ~
For generations, Americans have believed in a simple promise: that our government is of the people, by the people, and for the people. But today, citizens across the political spectrum feel that this promise has been broken. Both conservatives and progressives agree on one thing: the system is no longer responding to the will of the people.
Our politics are dominated by special interests, corporate money, lobbyists, and entrenched politicians who remain in power for decades. The average voter has been pushed to the sidelines while billion-dollar industries shape our laws, our regulations, and ultimately, our lives.
Reclaiming our country does not require choosing a “side.”
It requires fixing the system itself.
This proposal outlines a bipartisan plan to restore true self-governance.
Core Reform Pillars
1. Ban All Corporate and Organizational Campaign Contributions
Only individual citizens should be allowed to financially support political candidates.
No more:
• corporate donations
• union donations
• PACs funneling industry money
• dark-money nonprofits
• trade groups
• bundled contributions
Why both parties should support it
• Conservatives oppose concentrated power and corporate overreach.
• Progressives oppose corporate influence and wealth controlling politics.
• Independents overwhelmingly oppose special-interest funding.
Removing non-human money makes elections accountable only to voters, not industries.
2. Mandatory Annual Financial Transparency for All Elected Officials
Every year, all members of Congress and executive officials must publicly release:
• tax returns
• assets and investments
• business ties
• spousal and dependent financial interests
• all stock trades
• all gifts or outside income
Why both parties should support it
Transparency protects voters from corruption regardless of which party is in power.
It restores trust.
And sunlight forces integrity without restricting anyone’s freedoms.
3. Term Limits for Congress
Limit:
• Senators to two terms (12 years)
• Representatives to six terms (12 years)
Why both parties should support it
• Prevents politicians from becoming permanent fixtures of the establishment
• Breaks decades-long relationships with lobbyists
• Ensures fresh leadership and new ideas
• Reduces systemic corruption
Both left and right can agree: nobody should make a 40-year career out of “public service.”
Why This Must Be Bipartisan
Political corruption is not a Republican problem or a Democrat problem.
It is a structural problem, and both parties suffer from it.
This is why Americans consistently agree on reform:
• 80 percent want corporate money out of politics
• 70 percent support term limits
• The majority supports strict financial transparency
Divided government cannot fix this.
Only united citizens can.
Obvious Challenges
1. Politicians benefiting from the system will resist
Reforms that weaken special interests also weaken the people currently in power.
They will try to:
• dilute the reforms
• create loopholes
• hide behind legal arguments
• stall action indefinitely
2. The Supreme Court and campaign finance precedent
Rulings like Citizens United make it difficult to simply “ban money.”
Reform may require:
• a constitutional amendment
• or extremely carefully crafted legislation
3. Lobbyists will not disappear quietly
The lobbying industry is worth billions.
Special interests will fight to preserve their access and influence.
4. Media and political elites may frame reform as unrealistic or naïve
Because the current system benefits them, many will try to discredit or minimize reform efforts.
Why This Reform Is Absolutely Necessary
1. Without reform, we do not have self-government
If politicians answer to corporations and billionaires instead of voters, we are not a self-governing republic. We are a managed state with the appearance of democracy.
2. Corruption destroys national unity
Americans are deeply divided — not because we disagree on everything, but because we all believe the system is rigged.
Fix the corruption at the center, and people can disagree again without feeling powerless.
3. Restoring trust is essential to national stability
A nation cannot survive long-term if its people no longer believe the government represents them. Transparency, accountability, and fairness are the antidotes.
4. If we want freedom, we must remove the price tag attached to political power
A government bought by corporations cannot protect the freedom of its people.
Freedom erodes when representation is for sale.
Self-government is NOT gone.
But It Will Be if We Don’t Fight for It.
December 10, 2025
The list is a good start, but it does not address one of the elephants in the room: The control of our governing process by individuals of extreme high net worth, i.e., the billionaire class.
Extreme wealth is not threatening to our system, per se, but it allows the very rich to subvert and bypass our system of one man (person), one vote. The very rich can also game the system in a variety of other ways. This is contrary to our laws and traditions as a republic. We are not supposed to be an oligopoly.
Campaign finance reform should not only include a ban on organizational and corporate donors, but it ought to cap how much any individual can donate and how often. Indeed, the best way to get racketing and the buying/selling of influence out of national politics is to publicly fund political campaigns. Hold each member of Congress, for example, to the same budget for campaign purposes. Provide equal airtime to all running, etc.
Years ago, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich said, “The only way to get any member of the House or Senate to pay attention to your problem, is to write that representative a check for ten thousand dollars for his re-election fund,” or words to that effect. He was correct: the current system is pay-to-play, and if you lack the coin, you have no representation politically. This effect locks out the vast majority of Americans from having a voice in how we are governed. Oh, by the way that check is probably more like fifty grand today…
A second reform which must be enacted is to require voting on each piece of legislation on its own merits; no more omnibus bills or “Christmas Tree” bills. No more thousand page proposals that the public doesn’t even get to see or read before they are voted upon. There must also be transparency regarding who writes legislation, i.e., which lobbyists or industry specialists participate, etc.
Inside trading must eliminated. Current laws do not go nearly far-enough. A certain member of Congress was tending bar before being elected and had an extremely modest net worth. She is now worth nearly $30 million dollars. She didn’t do that on her salary as a Congresswoman!
There are insider trading laws, but they are not strict enough and are easily bypassed.
Another proverbial elephant in the room is the rule of law. The ruling class in today’s United States is effectively above the law, and can do pretty much anything that they please, without negative consequences. Infractions which would see ordinary people fined or jailed or worse are ignored in the ruling class and protected identity groups.
Too many crimes are committed by using official confidentiality and secrecy statutes. There is too much dark money in the system, especially inside of the deep-state three-letter agencies. And oversight of the national security-intelligence community is a joke; they tell Congress what to do and not the reverse.
Indeed, these three things: Vast amounts of off-budget funds, secrecy and enormous and largely unsupervised power – attract the unscrupulous, amoral and psychopathic like flies to honey.
The result is that the “deep state” – the vast informal network of power inside the formal structure of the government – is a law unto itself. Unless our desire is to live in a police state, this cannot continue.
Crimes too numerous to count and transgressions of all sorts have been committed by both parties – and so far, there have been precisely zero arrests and prosecutions. The Epstein Affair is just the tip of the iceberg.
The guys committed these crimes make the mafia look like amateurs. Unless you view living in a kleptocracy as ideal, this cannot continue.
A final thing which must change if the people are to regain control of the government is that all foreign money and influence must be purged from the halls of power. Everyone from the PRC to Saudi Arabia to Israel has more clout inside the beltway than ordinary Americans do – and it is because we have allowed these nations and other interests to burrow their way into our institutions like so many spies, and we have also allowed them to purchase access and influence. In other words, influence buying/selling and racketeering, both of which are supposed to be crimes.
Looking around today’s Washington, you’d never know it, would you?