A platform of ideas — not a campaign
What if we actually fixed the problem?
Most political platforms argue about who pays for broken systems. This one asks why the systems broke — and fixes that instead. These are ideas built over decades, grounded in evidence, and designed to make people on both sides uncomfortable. That’s usually a sign something is worth saying.
Before we get to the platform
I asked you to humor me for just a moment. What if it’s the fact that you’re working so hard and spending so little time with your family and friends just to pay the bills that has you frustrated and some of you downright angry. It’s not immigrants you’re angry at — if you were making enough to feed your family and work a decent week, you couldn’t care less about illegal immigration. But you’re not, and there’s a party out there that wants you to blame them. What if I told you another party wants you to blame billionaires. But again, if you or the ones you love weren’t struggling, then you couldn’t care less about a billionaire. What if I told you institutional investors makes up less than 1% of the market, and those who want to engage you in anger at them are just creating anxiety so you will elect them. If you stop and think about it, you’re not angry because two men you don’t know are getting married. You’re angry because you’ve sent your kids to schools so they can get an education in the classics of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Many of them are failing that and coming home with their heads filled with a tribal philosophy that doesn’t match your own family and experience. Worse, you’re angry to see so many kids depressed, unmotivated, unruly, and/or disrespectful. Including possibly your own.
If you’re an American who grew up middle class, you remember a time when there were highs and lows, but on average your family did all right. You’re now frustrated that everything costs too much for you to provide your family or even yourself with that basic Americana that used to be framed as the American dream. You are frustrated with injustice and a lack of people who understand you. What you keep getting with leaders is just a selection between two bad people who you fear one more than the other. People you’re voting against rather than somebody you’re voting for. And the person who gets into office when you look backwards ended up not doing anything to improve the system. You celebrate hollow victories, and politics that are about as important as last year’s fourth game of the season. You won, but what exactly did you win?
I’m going to say something that’ll probably resonate with a majority of you. Some of the most devastating things that’ve happened to you in life have to do with relationships breaking up. If not your own, then possibly your parents. The financial impact on you and your kids when somebody breaks that contract, destroys your trust, and throws your entire plan out the window is measurable. That’s a problem. And I don’t know any politicians who are willing to confront it head on. In a just and free society, we can’t force an individual’s behavior. No policy in the world can fix stupidity or malice. But we can change the environment and make certain choices more appealing and choices that are disruptive to the community and the family less appealing.
If you are here and still reading this, I am going to go out on a limb and say that you see what I see. An awful lot of people are angry and shouting at each other over things that just don’t affect them. Meanwhile, you are worried about your aging parents and how you’re going to balance being the meat of a sandwich generation. Or you are an aging parent, wondering what happened to those wonderful kids you brought into this world, now sitting in a nursing home alone. You are a recent graduate staring at a field of opportunities trying to figure out which ones AI will automate and which ones will provide you access to that comfort of the American Dream. Or you have noticed that Americans have become so self-absorbed that you can’t even travel a local road without somebody not paying attention nearly causing an accident. These are real issues that we all deal with daily. And let’s face it, you’re not worried and intimidated by an overreach of the people who carry guns in our communities using Flock cameras to…. You know what, that one’s appropriate. That is what you’re angry about. Me too. We’ll get to that too.
The 90-second version
We don’t need better insurance. We need more doctors.
Build a Healthcore — train medical staff the way we train soldiers, pay them to learn, deploy them to serve, and watch costs fall from the supply side.
Tie the floor to the ceiling.
Make the CEO’s raise the worker’s raise. One number. No bureaucracy. When the top rises, the bottom rises with it.
We burned their house down. They ran into ours.
Immigration is a symptom. US trade and drug policy created the conditions. Fix the cause or keep treating the symptom forever.
Reward the foundation before the family.
Reward young adults for building stability first. Let them choose what that reward looks like — cash, education, or healthcare.
Good cops follow better conditions. Fix the conditions.
The ethics drain is a labor market problem. Fix the incentive structure and the demographic outcomes correct themselves without mandates.
We don’t need to make bad choices illegal.
We need to make good choices more appealing. Change the environment. Change the world.
Browse by topic
Nine areas. One operating principle.
Every topic on this platform asks the same question: what environment produces this problem, and how do we change it?
The Operating System
Why empiricism beats faith as a governing standard.
Big System Reforms
Wage policy, family incentives, immigration, law enforcement.
Courts & Justice
Juries, warrants, forensic science, SCOTUS restructuring.
How We Choose Leaders
Debates, attendance, voting competency standards.
Lead by Example
Nuclear posture, AI warfare governance, consistent standards.
Species-Level Thinking
Space, AI, artificial womb technology, long-game investment.
Paradise for a Parking Lot
Plastic, sprawl, and the cost we defer to tomorrow..
The Healthcore
Supply-side fix for the healthcare crisis. Train doctors like soldiers. Deploy them to serve.
The core argument
“We haven’t separated church and state. We’ve institutionalized a civic religion.”
American patriotism meets the functional definition of religion — sacred texts, interpretive clergy, and majority-rule dogma. Argumentum ad populum is the foundational logical fallacy of democracy. Popular doesn’t mean correct. It never has. The question isn’t left or right. It’s whether we’re willing to govern by evidence or by faith. This platform chooses evidence.
About this platform
You said I should run. Here’s what that would actually mean.
These ideas have been developing for over twenty years — in blog posts, conversations, and arguments with people across the political spectrum. The consistent response: “I don’t always agree with you, but you make me think about the issues differently.”
This isn’t a campaign. It’s a platform of ideas that don’t fit neatly into either party. Some will make conservatives uncomfortable. Some will make progressives uncomfortable. That’s usually a sign something honest is being said.
The slogan is “Change the environment, change the world.” That’s not a bumper sticker. It’s the operating principle behind every idea on this site. Human behavior is a function of environment. Change the environment and you change the behavior — without mandates, without prohibition, without pretending people are different than they are.