A Radical Reset
Our Republic has been converted into a democracy which is just another name for mob rule. The mob is getting what it wants, to paraphrase H.L. Mencken, good and hard. One day soon, the entire edifice is going to collapse under its own weight and what takes its place historically will be tyranny. A Radical Reset is the alternative and the system is called Antipolitism. It calls for a new republic based upon merit and not ambition. No parties, no money in politics, no careers in politics, and only serving the public good.
A Radical Reset
We Don't Need No Stinking Gerrymandering: A Case for AntiPolitism
What if we eliminated political parties, campaign fundraising, and career politicians from our federal government? Herbie K offers a compelling alternative to our broken system in this thought-provoking exploration of Anti-Politism.
At its core, Anti-Politism proposes replacing congressional elections with a merit-based lottery system that would select representatives from among citizens who have demonstrated they understand how the system works. Qualified participants would be those over 35, in the top third of income earners, without criminal records, who work full-time—creating an elite that's accessible to anyone willing to work hard and achieve.
The current redistricting battles raging in Texas, California, and New York perfectly illustrate why such a radical change is necessary. Our system has devolved into partisan manipulation, with both parties engaging in the same gerrymandering they condemn when the other side does it. Anti-Politism would eliminate this problem entirely by creating simple geographic districts with equal populations—no strange shapes needed when representatives are randomly selected.
Perhaps most revolutionary is how this approach transforms federal service from an ambition to a duty. Representatives would serve a single four-year term and then return to private life, eliminating the career politician problem that has plagued American governance. Since 80-90% of a modern congressperson's time is spent fundraising rather than legislating, Anti-Politism proposes making Congress a part-time position that primarily convenes to pass the annual budget and address national emergencies.
Whether you find yourself nodding in agreement or questioning these ideas, Herbie K's passionate case for a return to true republican governance will make you reconsider fundamental assumptions about how our democracy should function. Explore the full vision in his book "A Radical Reset: The Manifesto of Antipolitism," available now on Amazon.
Hey everybody, it's me, Herbie K, your host today and every time on A Radical Reset, the podcast of anti-politism, which today we're going to discuss why.
Speaker 1:It just couldn't play more into why anti-politism is necessary than to watch what's going on between the parties over redistricting both in Texas and California and New York. And I'm not going to go into the details of the redistricting because it makes absolutely no difference to me, other than to say that what they're talking about. Let's just do a quick overview on what they're talking about and why this is pertinent to the discussion of anti-olitism and why it would be a much better system. Quickly, an overview for those of you who are unfamiliar with antipolitism. And, by the way, if you would like to get a much deeper dive, go to Amazon and pick up a copy of A Radical Reset, the Manifesto of Antipolitism by me. I'm in the business of a revision right now, by the way, I'm updating it a little bit. And anti-politism and one of the big updates is this Anti-politism, is a republic by merit-based lottery for selection to the Federal House of Representatives, For the Senate, I advocate repealing the 17th Amendment and returning the selection of senators to the various state legislatures. Now, in brief overview. Again, there's much more to it and in the book there's a lot more into policy prescriptions and so on and so forth. But the policy prescriptions in the book, frankly, are suggestions, not orders from above. The core of the book is anti-politics in the system, and what it does is eliminates the need to have federal parties at all. So, in the context of well, here let me go into it just in a quick overview for those of you who are unfamiliar.
Speaker 1:It is, instead of doing these congressional districts that all look strange, like, for example, I filed my letter of intent and I'm now collecting signatures to be on the ballot as a Libertarian in next year's election for the 4th Congressional District of Arizona. Now, the 4th Congressional District of Arizona, like every other congressional district, is not a geometrically explainable shape. Let's just put it to you that way. It's not a circle, square, trapezoid, octahedron. It is a octahedron. What a stupid thing to insert in there. That's what happens when you're just riffing. But they all have strange shapes. Some of them are very strange. There's some look like fishhooks, some look like long, straight strips, but what they all are. Some look like fishhooks, Some look like long, straight strips, but what they all are are the attempts of state legislatures from time to time, and theoretically it's every 10 years, but they've already blown that.
Speaker 1:The Democrats right just quickly on the current debate, they're all complaining that the Republicans are doing something. That's you know. This should only be done every 10 years. The two governors making the loudest noise about it New York and California both did it, you know, without waiting for the 10 years. The two governors making the loudest noise about it New York and California both did it, you know, without waiting for the 10 years. I mean, this is the pot calling the kettle black, you know.
Speaker 1:So, forgetting that part of the debate and the disgusting hypocrisy of the whole thing and antipolitism would be completely unnecessary. So the way antipolitism works is that basically, by email, a questioner goes out to everyone over the age of 35 in the state and ask them some simple questions, which the first question is how much did you earn last year, Gross? And the second question is how old are you? And the third question is do you have any criminal convictions in your background? Now, if the answer on the income turns out that that income from last year is in the top third of income earners, you qualify as well as being over the age of 35 and not having a criminal background. If those three things are present, you are qualified for the lottery itself.
Speaker 1:Now why the top third of income earners? Simply this, regardless of whether you in the original version. If you went to look at the book now, just before the revision's about to take place, you would see I talk a lot about college education and so on and so forth. But time has changed my view on that and I think college education is as much a negative as a positive. So, rather than trying to figure out who went to college and turned into a communist and who went to college and understands that a free market is the only way to provide for the prosperity of people, I simply do it by placing.
Speaker 1:If you're in the top third of income earners, then, theoretically, you at least know how to play the game according to the rules as it's laid down. You understand that the free market works well because it's worked for you. You have, regardless of where you started whether it was at the very bottom or somewhere above that you have achieved your way into the top 33 and a third percent of income earners. So, regardless of what you do for a living. You're good at it and you're either on your way up or have reached the pinnacle, or whatever it might be, but you're in the top third of income earners and you're over 35.
Speaker 1:The reason for that is is because, with life expectancies as they are, when the founders set up the original constitution, one of the things they couldn't have foreseen is how long people live, which is really been a huge contributor to the problem of professional politicians. In the first place, they just never envisioned that someone would want to spend their entire life in politics at a time when there was an agrarian society and a much simpler world where the government wasn't expected to provide for your happiness, just for your ability to be happy. Anyway, people typically would die at around the age of 40. Well, now, the average life expectancy is roughly 80. And, by the way, figures lie in liar's figure, I know it's around 78. But then if you take out the people that die before they're 65, the number one cause of death prior to the age of 65 is accidents. And as you get older it's less and less likely you'll die as an accident because you take less and less risks, naturally because your body's telling you easy does it? Big fella big gal. You know it's just believe me, it's true. Consequently, the longer you live, the longer you're going to live. So if you live to be 65, the chances are you're going to live to be 88, actually Okay.
Speaker 1:So these long, long congressional careers where you have people like you know a lot of you won't remember this guy, Strom Thurmond or you have someone like today, Nancy Pelosi, who's over the you know, or President Biden, and these things wouldn't happen. They were never envisioned. That anyone lived that long in the first place. I realized that Ben Franklin did, but he was an anachronism for the time. There's some statistical stuff about that too, but we won't go into that. That would be a digression with no meaning. So, anyway, in relation to today's conversation.
Speaker 1:So back to antipolitism. So by setting it at the top third of achievers, you have people that the original property requirements, I think is outdated. Originally, the founders put a property requirement. You couldn't vote unless you owned property, the theory being that, therefore, you had skin in the game. And remember that this was before 1913. There was no income tax, so that wasn't even a discussion at the time. So consequently, but today we no longer live in an agrarian society. We don't grow our own food. It doesn't take 80% of the people to grow 100% of the food. Therefore, most people own land. Therefore, it wasn't as restrictive as it sounds. But today I just read the other day that for 30-year-olds, as an example the next generation coming up only about 10% of them will own a house and have children by the time they're 30 years old, which is, by the way, an incredibly troubling finding, which we'll discuss in another podcast.
Speaker 1:But having said that, property is less the measure, because we're not in an agrarian society. We're in a technological society where property can take the form of Bitcoin, and so, saying that you own property and it has to be dirt, there has to be some adjustment for that. So, instead of trying to figure out how much Bitcoin would be enough or how much in a 401k, or if you, you know people have, instead of all of that and the incredible amount of accounting and messing around that would call for, I'm trying to keep it simple. I'm just saying that if you've achieved an income level, oh, and the other requirement is you have to be working full-time you can't be a retiree and you can't be a trust fund baby. Now, it doesn't, but there's no maximum age.
Speaker 1:So if listen, if you want to speaking for myself, I intend to die with my boots on. I don't really picture myself sitting in the shade under a rocking chair there's nothing wrong with that or on a rocking chair, not under it. If I was under it, I would be married to the wrong woman. I'm not married at all right now, by the way Slight digression, but that was a weird thing. So anyway, the I was just trying to find a way that you would have skidded the game, in the sense that you would play it according to the rules of the game.
Speaker 1:So, regardless of whether you rent an apartment in New York City and you don't own it a lot of them do or you own a home or you don't, or you choose to live in an RV, whatever it is, as long as you've achieved into the top third of income earners, then you qualify. As long as you don't have earners, then you qualify. As long as you don't have a criminal background, you qualify. As long as you work full-time, you qualify. You can be 80 and working full-time, you still qualify. But if you decide to retire, then you're not going to be affected as much by what the government does or doesn't do where. If you're a trust fund baby, then you have not achieved your way into the upper third of income. Therefore you're excluded. But remember, in the case of both the trust fund baby and the retiree, that's a choice. Just because you're born with a trust fund doesn't mean you can't work for a living. And if you work for a living and your earnings are in the top third of income earners, then by all means join the lottery. If you're a retiree and you got bored, you want to reenter the workforce and work full time, and you also earn the upper third because of your experience, your background, your profession, whatever it might be, God bless you, You're back in it too.
Speaker 1:This is not ageism or any other ism want an elite. The whole idea behind a republic as opposed to a democracy is you want a ruling elite to make the decisions because the masses are asses. Let's be honest about it. If you don't have skin in the game, then you don't have any reason to vote responsibly. And in the modern time, if you're young, you don't have the life experience to vote responsibly. And I don't mean to pick on those of you that are under 35 that are listening. I know you're perfectly intelligent and capable of making decisions, but, regardless, you just haven't had enough of life's experiences yet and a lot of what is coming your way is going to be a surprise and it's going to color you and it's going to make you into a better person. Consequently, what's the rush? Why do you need to get involved?
Speaker 1:Remember that, in anti-politism, politics is not a career. By by doing it the way I'm suggesting, we convert being involved in politics at the federal level from an ambition to a duty. In other words, we're basically drafting our congressman as opposed to allowing them to decide they want to be a congressperson. And the other advantage of that is that in today's environment where people, when they get in the public life, you know your background is going to be opened up. And, by the way, in antipolitism, I've written in protections for those people who choose to serve. By the way, when I say choose to serve, if you're selected by the lottery to be the congressperson I'll explain that in a minute you can decline it. This is not a draft in the sense of you can go to jail for saying no, but assuming that you say yes, then you're going to serve and you're going to serve in office. But we'll get to that in a minute.
Speaker 1:So, with these screens from that group of people that meet this elite and the idea it's an elite that anyone can join, it's an American elite, In other words, all you have to do is be over 35, have not committed a crime, and that means I'm excluding myself, by the way, from the pool. But so what? The cemeteries are full of men that can't be replaced. I don't think I'm so irreplaceable, I just have one. That's really good idea and I want to share it and I want to leave it for you to use. But it's not important whether I'm allowed to be involved or not. Yes, I'm running for office to get attention to the movement, to build a movement, but at the very same time, I'm not doing it for my personal aggrandizement and I don't think I'm irreplaceable. So, anyway, I've eliminated myself from potential future lotteries and everyone like me yeah, they're, you know like why try to figure out which criminal is reformed and which one isn't. Just, there's plenty of other people, so let's just go with that.
Speaker 1:So, assuming that you haven't committed a crime and that you're over the age of 35 and that you've earned your way in the top third of income earners and you've done it by working, not by inheriting, and you're not living on the laurels of the past. Assuming all of that is true, you are eligible for the lottery, and so is anybody else who works themselves into the same position, which makes it, by the way, true that when every little boy and girl in America grows up, one day they could be the president of the United States. It's actually true. In antipolitism, you don't have to belong to the Bush or Clinton family. But anyway, or in the old days, Roosevelt or whatever it might be, there's going to be no more elites of elites. There's no more oligarchic elites. In anti-politism, it's an elite of achievement.
Speaker 1:And so, from this group, what we basically do is, on election day, instead of having elections, we have a lottery on TV with a ping pong ball machine in every congressional district and everyone who answers the email questionnaire and, by the way, no one's going to be investigated. The only person whose answers are going to be checked is the person who says yes, I'll serve is selected by the system. Everybody else, there's no need. There's no need to carry out a million investigations, or 10 million, or 340. That's ridiculous. We only have to double check the claims. It's an honor system until you're selected, and then we just double check to make sure you weren't lying on your application and on we go from there. We don't need to do a deep criminal background check. The fact you don't have a record is good enough. You know if you're working full-time, good enough, you made that much income, good enough. But we don't have to check that for everybody until that person is selected.
Speaker 1:So let's say that in any given congressional district. So instead of them being all kinds of odd shapes, they'll be equal geographic areas, just split up to make roughly equal pockets of population, equal to the number of congressional districts in each state. I propose keeping the number of congressmen the same at 435. And yes, populations move and will have to be adjusted from time to time. But based on what the population of your state can justify as number of Congress seats, your state is then divided into equal areas by population of those state can justify as number of Congress seats. Your state is then divided into equal areas by population of those with no strange shapes, because there's no need for Democrats or Republicans, because there's not going to be an election and the person that's going to be selected is going to be completely random from the pool. Consequently, there's absolutely no need to worry about building candidates or building campaigns or raising money. There's no campaign, there's no election, there's no need to raise money. The person that's selected is going to be selected based solely on the random chance from the lottery, and I base that simply on the theory that I could pretty much walk through any crowd in America and point to 435 people at random and get an average IQ as high or higher than the Congress of the United States today.
Speaker 1:The only objection to what I'm suggesting would be and this is the objection that will be made is we're going to lose all that experience, all these peoples, and I would say, based on track record. Goodbye to that experience. I don't see any experience at the federal level of those governing us that would justify honoring their background and what they've done. You know, other than parliamentary procedure, which anyone can learn, and we'll talk about that either in this podcast or one down the road, fostering a culture of. Well, let me talk about it now, what it'll do, since everyone knows that if they work up into the top third, they're going to be eligible for the lottery one day.
Speaker 1:Then things like in high school teaching people how the Congress works becomes more of a cultural imperative, since you really might be there one day. Consequently, it'll breed more interest, more healthy interest, and since there will be no political parties, there will be no, not to say there won't be, programs that cater to the right and left and people won't have their opinions. But what tends to happen is it's like Winston Churchill used to say if you're not under 30 and a socialist, you have no heart. If you're not over 30 and a capitalist, you have no heart. If you're not over 30 and a capitalist, you have no brain. I probably ruined that, but I think that's pretty much what he said.
Speaker 1:And as people, as you climb the ladder, you start to realize the foolishness of the idea that a government can do anything for anybody other than basically fuck things up. To the extent the government gets out of the way with rare exception is to the extent that the government should even exist. And at the federal level, the only thing the government should be doing is conducting foreign policy, maintaining the military and chasing down interstate criminals and maintaining the books, the treasury, that's it. Everything else should be devolved to the state level. So again, that's a longer discussion, and the reason for that is simply that the people are closer to their governments at the state level than they are at the federal level.
Speaker 1:So if your state, it's not going to be like, for example, in an anti-political state, and anyone who's earned their way to the top understands, for example, that the welfare state has failed and destroyed the nuclear family. Therefore there should be no federal welfare state. We keep funding it because it's an entitlement. We've somehow invented that word, but it's not only shouldn't be an entitlement, it shouldn't exist. It has destroyed the nuclear family and is particularly in the black community. But like a cancer it's spreading throughout the entire country and the quickest thing to help stem that would be to cut it off, because then the family becomes the primary source of support. Therefore it reestablishes the need for a family in the first place.
Speaker 1:And then we get back to, for example, if you knock a girl up, you get married, but I don't want to go down that road too much today. But you understand the cultural advantages of getting rid of free, but young people still think that maybe we can find a way to help people out of poverty when, as you get older, more experienced, you realize that the reason that the people are in poverty permanently is because they were born into it and then make spend their entire lives making shitty decisions, because nobody in their non-existent nuclear family ever taught them how to make decisions to climb out of poverty. Before 1965, poverty in this country and everywhere else was temporary. You'd fall into it and your family would pull together and you'd pull out of it. Now it's a lifestyle and it's pervasive and it's made our cities into war zones and everything else. And this is all because it exists.
Speaker 1:So anyway, I don't know why I went into this. When I'm trying to just explain anti-politicism, it's because I'm passionate guys. So, anyway, whatever they select, there's no requirement to devolve the federal office state. That's a suggestion, but the legislature will be made up of people that are selected strictly because they've achieved something, which means that there'll be men and women. There'll be a lot less lawyers, instead of over half the Congress being lawyers, which, let's be honest, what is a lawyer? But a paid intellectual prostitute who will represent you in any position. They're trained to take any position and defend it. What does that tell you about their backbone? Not that I disrespect lawyers. You see, they aren't important, God knows. I've had dear friends. I've had family members. I have family members.
Speaker 1:It's not that I hate the profession, it's that we shouldn't have over 50% of the Congress made up of basically paid weasels. It just makes absolutely no sense at all. But in an anti-political Congress, the Congress, the House of Representatives, will be made up of every profession across the spectrum entrepreneurs, farmers, engineers, male and female, black and white, brown, Arab, Asian, it doesn't matter. We'll have a very much more diverse Congress just because of the randomness of selection, but with the commonality that each and every person selected has climbed their way to a level of success which means they have shared values and that's the most important thing. Underlying all of this is the slide in the decadence and depravity that this country is on an accelerating path of, with AI coming online, and we've got to do something to stem that and and. That is anti-politicism.
Speaker 1:And, by the way, the reason I've changed my mind about anti-politics I used to say let's do a statewide lottery, the same way for the Senate, but I've changed my mind to the senators should be selected by their state houses, which means at the state level there's going to be politics, but at the state level they can do much less harm than at the federal level, because they can't print money. And if you can't print money, you can only spend what you collect. And if you can only spend what you collect, that puts a severe limit on how stupid government can be. It's the very the federal government has a printing press that makes it dangerous, which means also, I believe, in the end of the Federal Reserve, but that's another discussion for another day. We do not need one, even in a modern economy, but I'm not going there today. So, having said that, it would eliminate this entire. So the reason for that I anyway went back to have the senators selected by the states is so that they're more answerable to their individual states, and so it's more, we should get a more experienced and seasoned group of people in the Senate.
Speaker 1:And, by the way, all terms in an anti-political world, including the one selected by the one and done, there's no two-term serving, it's one term Of four years in the House and Senate. You're done. Also, the president four years, one and done. Everything is one and done. Now there's more details, and there's details on how the president is selected, which is not by direct election, it's by. Well, it's done by. You'll understand it when you read a radical reset. It's a better system. It takes not some of the money out of politics, it takes all of the money out of politics, and by taking the political parties out of the federal government altogether, what it does is it means that we get people. We have an elite at the highest level of people who are the people that are pulling the cart and know better than to do stupid things Now at the state level, if they want to experiment and see if they can invent a welfare system that actually works and one of the states actually does it and other states want to copy it, by all means.
Speaker 1:Another part of antipolitism is that we're going to kill the income tax and repeal the income tax altogether. It never existed from the beginning In a much smaller federal government. We just won't need it. There are plenty of other ways for the federal government to raise money for itself and let the states, if they want to have an income tax at the state, let them. Then the people of the state know how much things cost and if it's worth it to them to have an income tax and to pay a certain percentage of their income for the state to provide a benefit that's quality in any particular state, then God bless them.
Speaker 1:Do it Again. They can't print money. Why not? Okay, as long as you're paying the bills, go ahead. But then when you make it, it fucks up, which all central control usually does. Let's just say it always does up to this point, so let's just pretend that it continues that way and all this experimentation turns for naught. Well fine, they just haven't damaged the whole country doing it. But at the same time, it also allows laboratories. All the states become laboratories of experimentation for things like better education that other states can copy. But also remember that our states are like 50 little countries with different demographics. So even if they do welfare programs in all 50 states, if that's what happens, great, but there will be custom design for the demographic and population of that state, which is much smaller than a whole nation, which means it has a better chance of working.
Speaker 1:Okay, and I could go through all the different issues and I'm tempted to do it, but really in relation to what's going on today in today's podcast, so we don't go on forever, what's going on in Texas simply wouldn't happen. There'd be no discussion, There'd be no gerrymandered districts, There'd be no wasting of the time of state legislatures who ought to be spending their time doing things like improving the education of the children of their state, let's say, is just one example or doing a better job in the prison system or with law enforcement, whatever it might be. Wasting their time on political crap like this, Okay, it also will get rid of the political hacks that are doing it. Okay Now, yes, at the state level, there will still be politics. Yes, at the state level, there will still be elections, but much less money, much less involved and also much closer to the people.
Speaker 1:So if the guy next door is your state representative, as is commonly the case, and you see suddenly his lifestyle changing from the better, that's a pretty clear sign that something corrupt is going on and he's going to get caught. It's much more difficult to hide corruption at the state level as well, just because you're so much closer to the people that are voting for you in the first place and your secrets. It's like living in a small town the smaller the population, the more likely it is your secrets are going to come out. It's like when you live in a small town and you're cheating on your spouse unless you're an idiot, you don't do it in the same small town. Okay, but, by the way, I'm not suggesting anybody cheat on their spouse. I'm just saying that you basically don't make mischief at home because it's going to get caught. You know, the best suggestion is don't cheat on your spouse. Let me be very clear about that. But having said that, even if you were a cheater, you wouldn't do it at home. And so if you're going to steal, it's very difficult to steal at home because the idiot next door knows what's going on. Okay, so anyway, I think that's where I'll stop it.
Speaker 1:This is why anti-politism makes sense. This is why we have to get rid of these elections. This is why we have democracy. Is mob rule. Anti-politism is a return to a republic run by an elite that's an elite of merit and open to anybody who wants to work hard and put their nose to the grindstone and achieve. Then they can become part of the elite and part of good, solid, responsible.
Speaker 1:And when I say one term, it's one and done. You go, you serve and you're done. By the way, it's also a part-time job. Just one last in an anti-political world, going to the federal Congress would be a part-time job. Just one last thing In an anti-political world, going to the federal Congress would be a part-time job, because the federal government A would be much smaller.
Speaker 1:But, most importantly, today in fact, check me on this guys, Look it up, Google it, Be my guest or whatever search engine you prefer what percentage of time do Congress people spend raising money, as opposed to legislating, and you will find out that they spend 80 to 90 percent of their time raising money, because to run for Congress today means that you need to raise around 15 to 20 million dollars if you expect to win in a major political party and to run for Senate, you have to raise that much more, depending on the size of your state. And you know what that's just going to breed corruption. All we have now is legalized corruption. That's what federal finance laws are, and if you really understand them, whenever any party's in power and they pass campaign reform, they always reform it in their favor to manipulate the system their way. I'm saying we get rid of it altogether no money at the federal level.
Speaker 1:So when you go to serve in Congress, since you're not spending 80 to 90% of your time raising money, you're only spending 10% of the time otherwise, which means you don't have to make it a full-time job. You come to Washington to pass a budget every year and then you go home, unless there's a national emergency, and while you're in Washington and doing the budget, which is the primary responsibility that they never achieved I don't think it's been achieved since the 90s, the last time they actually passed the budget which is the one thing the Congress should do, their one job. They can't really do it. Their one most important job, their one ongoing job. Yes, they declare war. That's what I mean by national emergencies. Yes, there might be a hurricane and we might have to call Congress into session to send some federal aid to that state, and so on and so forth. But apart from these emergencies, okay, you would basically be at home doing your regular job.
Speaker 1:So when you go to Washington to serve, you would be paid per diem, whatever it is that you earned the previous year before you were selected for Congress. So if you made $100,000 a year, you'd get roughly $300 a day for every day you're serving in Congress, and I just picked that number out of the air because it's a round number. I don't even know if that's in the top third anymore, but whatever it is, you get one three hundred and sixty fifth of it per diem for every day you're in Washington. The government will pay your airfare coach, by the way, to and from commercial. Now if you own your own plane, you have to be randomly selected to fly your own plane, for Christ's sake. And if you want to upgrade your ticket, be my guest. But it's not on the taxpayer's dime. Taxpayers done Otherwise. You're flown, coached to Washington DC.
Speaker 1:While you're serving, While you're there, you'll be put up in. Basically, I say, take one of the federal buildings that will empty out, convert it and turn it into an apartment complex of exceptionally high security, which is where everybody stays when they're in town working in Congress, and they just serve their four-year term and they're done. And once they're done, they can never be reselected and that's the end of it. It converts ambition to duty. It becomes a duty. You might be called upon to do your duty. Therefore, you should keep up on events and what's going on in the world. People who have achieved something do it. Naturally. You don't have to tell them to do it. We want our best and brightest to be the ones who are in charge If you're not playing the game and you're essentially a parasite collecting from the state when you don't pay in, what are you doing? Voting for how much you take? You cannot allow a mosquito to vote for how much blood they suck. Sorry, I know that's an ugly analogy, but it's true. And that's the end of the podcast.
Speaker 1:Today, and I think I've made my point. We don't need no stinking gerrymandering. We don't need no stinking redrawing of districts. We just need antipolitism. Again, let me remind you to pick up a copy of A Radical Reset the Manifesto of Antipolitism. It's available to you in paperback, Kindle and hardcover at Amazon. Please share this podcast with friends, neighbors and the like. Please get interested and, if you would like to let me just throw this out there, volunteer and work with me. There are ways to reach me. You'll find them wherever it is that you're listening to this. Reach out, contact me and get involved, because we have a movement to build and a world to change and a country to save. God bless you, God bless your family, God bless America. Have a beautiful day.