
How the Government Works: A Satirical Yet True Breakdown
Elections: The Money Talks, Votes Walk System
Step 1: Spend billions campaigning, mostly raised from a handful of wealthy donors and corporations who have no interest in your actual well-being.
Step 2: Convince voters that the candidate with the biggest war chest is somehow the most relatable.
Step 3: Use propaganda and soundbites to make sure no one asks real questions about policy.
Step 4: Secure a job that pays $174,000 a year while voters struggle with bills. Bonus points for not understanding their struggle.
Solution? Vote America Act – Take the money out of campaigns and give voters a shot at choosing leaders, not fundraisers.
Representation: Gerrymandering for Dummies
Step 1: Draw electoral districts like Picasso on a bad day to ensure one party wins forever.
Step 2: Pretend this is democracy while entire communities are disenfranchised.
Step 3: Ignore those same communities until you need votes again.
Solution? Fair Representation Act – Balanced districts, fair voting systems, and real representation.
Economic Fairness: The CEO’s Golden Throne
Step 1: Pay CEOs 400 times what their employees make because “they deserve it.”
Step 2: Use loopholes to pay less in taxes than your secretary.
Step 3: Complain that fair wages would “ruin the economy.”
Solution? Equity Equation Project – Tie wages to productivity, close loopholes, and let workers share in the wealth they create.
Education: The Debt-For-Diploma Scam
Step 1: Tell every kid they need a degree to succeed.
Step 2: Charge them so much for that degree they’ll be paying it off until retirement.
Step 3: Let predatory lenders rake in billions while public education crumbles.
Solution? Sustainable Tuition Initiative – Affordable education funded by smarter investments, not student debt.
Civic Knowledge: The Blind Leading the Blind
Step 1: Make civics education optional so people have no idea how their government works.
Step 2: Use that ignorance to manipulate voters with fear and misinformation.
Step 3: Profit from the chaos.
Solution? Civic Knowledge Act – Nonpartisan civics education for all, so voters know what’s real and what’s not.
Immigration: The Red Tape Circus
Step 1: Make the legal immigration process so slow and expensive that no one can actually do it.
Step 2: Blame immigrants for all of America’s problems while exploiting their labor.
Step 3: Ignore every opportunity for humane reform.
Solution? American Dream Preservation Act – Fair, humane immigration policies that actually work.
Accountability in Government: The No-Experience Necessary Rulebook
Step 1: Appoint unqualified friends and donors to run major agencies.
Step 2: Wonder why nothing works.
Step 3: Keep taxpayers footing the bill.
Solution? Standards for Public Trust Act – Minimum qualifications for government roles, because common sense shouldn’t be optional.
Free Speech: The Wild, Wild West
Step 1: Let lies and conspiracies spread unchecked because “it’s free speech.”
Step 2: Watch society crumble under the weight of misinformation.
Step 3: Shrug and say, “Well, it’s the price of freedom.”
Solution? First Amendment Integrity Initiative – Balance free speech with accountability.
Term Limits: The Career Politician’s Playground
Step 1: Let politicians serve for decades, becoming more loyal to donors than voters.
Step 2: Complain about gridlock while re-electing the same people.
Step 3: Repeat until nothing changes.
Solution? Citizen Representation Amendment – Confidence votes and term limits tailored to the people’s will.
National Defense: The Endless Spending Spree
Step 1: Funnel trillions into the military-industrial complex while ignoring domestic crises.
Step 2: Question why we have no money for healthcare, education, or infrastructure.
Step 3: Justify spending more on defense than the next ten countries combined because “national security.”
Solution? Strategic Defense Budget Act – Strong defense, smarter spending, and an end to unchecked military bloat.
Make It Make Sense
The government’s flaws aren’t hard to spot—but fixing them requires real solutions. These policies don’t just patch the cracks; they rebuild the foundation.
Share! Pass it along! That’s how this works! Let it begin!