Why are we organizing?

We are organizing because there is no alternative. We no longer live in a representative democracy, we live in a representative oligarchy and corporatocracy. This is hard for people to believe because we think our representatives listen to us and represent us, we believe we live in a nation based on the ideas of consent of the governed, rule of law, equal justice under the law, checks and balances, and etcetera, but the evidence shows that 95% of Americans have zero impact on what becomes law. All the power rests with the donor class who view us, those who earn a living, as subjects with no say in how things are run.

Decision making is left to them, and we, the “little” people are spectators, but it is worse than this. The current administration, filled with billionaires and corporate insiders, is dismantling all consumer protections from fraud, waste, and abuse, deregulating to make America polluted again, allowing DOGE to access our personal information and terminate government investigations of Musk, violating due process, extrajudicially killing people, attacking free speech, undermining institutional independence, and using public office for private gain at a level not seen in US history.

Yet, as one mainstream media (MSM) executive said, “He, (the current occupant of the white house), is good for ratings.” Indeed, if it wasn’t for MSM covering his every step, he would never have become so popular, and we the people would have been left to vote for other less mediocre candidates served up by the parties establishments and the donor class they are beholden to, but there is even a more insidious reason this individual dodged consequences for his unlawful activity, not discounting the immunity gifted him by the venal and radical right controlled supreme court or the Citizen’s United decision that legalized bribery, and that is he is one of them.

He is a member of the donor class, better understood as the ruling class and the corporate elite that is in the Epstein files, the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, the WTO agreements that violates local and national sovereignty, Project 2025 (the corporate and special interest play book he is dutifully implimenting), etcetera. They protect each other and look upon us with contempt. With their lobbyists basically writing regulatory, tax, and all legislation behind closed doors and beyond public scrutiny, they have, for example, rigged the tax code to punish wage earners and lowered it to an effective rate on themselves, the 1%, of 3.4%. They have also basically eliminated what used to be called the inheritance tax and which their MSM and “think” tanks now call the “death” tax, and through their philantrophy scam so skewed the tax code that they the morbidly wealthy pay a lower effective tax rate than janitors.

There is no evidence showing that the current occupant of the white house or any member of his class care about the working and middle class. Of course, we can build their homes and yachts, clean their houses, fly their planes, service their desires, and grovel before them, or as many millionaires waiting to happen do, sit on the edge of their seat waiting for the next glorious word to come out of their divine mouths. Such obsequiousness should be a thing of the past, but here we are. They hold onto power with the help of the current predominate debunked economic model called neo-liberalism that couldn’t predict rain in a rainstorm and has zero predictive reliability as proven when not one of their esteemed devotees at the elite universities or think tanks predicted the 2008 crash. Its only good use is, like divine right of the past, to protect the ruling class.

The reader might be asking, since our nation has been controlled by these geniuses, the 1% over the past 50 years, how have they done?

They told us through their MSM, “think” tanks, and economic departments they finance, that the deindustrialization of the nation; the closure of 60k factories and the loss of 20 million manufacturing jobs, was a good thing. They said it will stimulate economic activity and through “creative” destruction create good paying service jobs. They told us to trust them, that government needed to deregulate financial markets. “Let us unleash finance!” was the motto. This led to the 2008 crash and the ensuing period of bailouts for the banks and QE for financial markets. While Wall Street was getting buried with money, millions of Americans were losing their homes and livelihoods and getting buried in debt. Less we forget, their MSM from CNN to Fox also ignored all evidence and beat the drums of the unconstitutional war in Iraq. Taken together all these decisions were made at ruling class’s behest, and we have left out many other catastrophic decisions like how ExxonMobil disavowed the conclusions of its own scientists about the dangers of CO2 emissions. Instead of having a conscience and responding maturely, ExxonMobil and the rest of the fossil fuel industry highered the same merchants of doubt–conservative think tanks and the MSM, who created confusion and doubt about the dangers of smoking, to seed doubt in the public about the dangers of climate change.

These decisions, or better put, lies, that led to the wars in the Middle East and the bailout of banks and backstopping of financial markets cost the American people 20 trillion dollars, not to mention how these wars led to the needless death and injuries of thousands of Americans and millions of Middle Easterners.

How could the money have been spent?

If this 20 trillion had not been squandered away for wars that had no strategic benefit or given to bankers that didn’t deserve bailouts, or markets that didn’t deserve to be shored up, we could have, for 4.5 trillion dollars transitioned from our reliance on fossil fuels to renewable energy. That would mean we would not have to rely on Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern states for our energy needs. This would save our military from being the private army of big oil and Middle Eastern dictators. It would also make Americans more independent by lowering utility costs and automobile maintenance costs as EVs are cheaper to maintain. With more EVs on the road and solar panels on roofs, air and water quality would improve and deaths from chronic diseases and cancer would decrease. It would stimulate the economy. With 4.5 trillion spent, we would still have money left over. With what is left we could fund Medicare for all for 13 trillion dollars for ten years, giving all Americans health coverage would lower the cost for businesses and Americans by eliminating the private insurance companies that add no value to health care. Although the total cost would increase by one trillion per year, the savings in administrative and health care costs as well as the benefits for businesses and individuals would far outweigh the increase in cost. And we would still have money left over. For another three trillion dollars, along with lifting the cap on Social Security withholdings for those making above 160k per year, we could make Social Security solvent for the next 75 years!

Should we be angry with the ruling class?

We, the American people, must not be afraid or embarrassed. We need to look at the big picture and yes, we need to be angry because we have suffered these fools, these sociopaths in high places for too long. They have squandered our blood and treasure. They have destroyed our ability to manufacture the goods we need. For it was they who chose to deindustrialize our nation and deregulate financial markets for their benefit. By closing factories here and opening up slave shops in places like China, they got a threefor, they increased profits, pacified American labor, and financed the rise of China, rationalizing further our need to increase defense spending. All along, they told us to trust them. They told us they knew what they were doing. They told us wealth would trickle down; it didn’t, it tinkled down as what little we had flooded up. They have indebted us, pacified us, divided us, sent our sons and daughters to fight wars we had no business being in, and driven the country into the ground—for what?

Now it is the time for us, the people, to restore power to the rightful sovereign, We the People. It is time for us to remember that we are the progeny of our founders who put their lives on the line when they wrote the Declaration of Independence:

“…to secure these rights (life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness), Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

The object of their design has reduced half of us to a precariat existence one emergency away from being homeless under a tyrannical regime that is normalizing cruel and arbitrary rule and violating our rights, from due process, privacy, and voting, to speech, assembly and redress of grievances. Leaving us with no other alternative than to reassert what is our sovereign right and duty, to change our government to one that represents us and secures our rights.

We stand on the precipice of a new age where the intelligence, the restraint, the ability to live within one’s means, or as Benjamin Franklin called us, the “middling sort”, those who don’t pursue great wealth or power, but are the rock upon which our great nation was built, will be heard. This idea that we are not merely individuals pursuing self-interest, but citizens, equals, endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights living within a greater nature where the highest form of service is public service for the betterment of all people, our progeny, and the planet we are dependent upon for survival.

Is the Democratic Party the solution?

Let us preface this by saying, the progressive wing of the democratic party is the only group of congress people who have tried to push forth bills the majority of American people want such as Medicare for all, ending arms shipments to Israel, paying for family and medical leave, raising the minimum wage, and more, but their bills go nowhere because the democratic party is controlled by the corporate democrats and the republican party is wholly owned by the donor class, so if we look at the democratic party as a whole, and ask are they a functioning opposition party, we will answer no. If they were a true opposition that reflected the will of the people, they would support getting money out of politics, ending the endless wars, fighting more aggressively against the blatant violations of our civil liberties and constitutional rights, and be for definancializing the economy by returning to industrial capitalism where the government supports the productive economy.

If the Democratic Party was a true opposition party and had a VISION and did not follow the dictates of the party establishment and their high paid consultants and donor class they are beholden to, we could depend on the usual methods of influencing the political process i.e., voting, showing up for town hall meetings, protesting, writing letters or emails, joining the local party chapter, etcetera, but that is not the case.

Lest we forget, it is the Democratic Party that refused to back New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and sabotaged Bernie Sander’s campaign in 2016 and 2020. Let’s also not forget that Barack Obama did not keep his promise to add a public health care option, refused to hold the banks accountable, and did not significantly aid homeowners devastated by the 2008 financial crisis.

On the republican side, the current adminstration has not reduced inflation, it is arguably the most corrupt administration in US history with clear fascist tendencies, it has not diminished American imperial ambitions or ended our support of rogue nations, it has engaged in extra judicial killings, and it has lied about not supporting Project 2025, a corporate, Christian nationalist, and billioanaire wishlist destroying government protection from waste, fraud, and abuse, firing essential government employees, undermining the social safety net, and defunding programs that our good for the American people.

Why protesting is not the solution.

Just consider the act of protesting which we have done with Indivisible, we spend four or five hours parading up and down the street waving our placards, but what have we accomplished? We have let the current administration know that we don’t want a king and we get some transitory coverage by the MSM, but without a demand, we have accomplished nothing, as Frederick Douglas stated, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will.”

We must understand that groups like Indivisible are NOT the solution. When we proposed people driven, bottom up ideas to leadership such as pushing our democratic representatives to openly discuss the pervasive republican voter suppression tactics of the 2024 election; tactics that if fully implimented in the 2026 midterms will stymie a blue wave, they dismissed us.

Indivisible is not going to back a people driven agenda. They are a top-down organization protesting without demands. Add to that the Democratic Party’s miserable approval rating of 28%, because they have no vision and are controlled by the donor class, and it makes it even more urgent for us to leverage our voices, votes, and vision and make a list of prioritized demands. We can begin by asking ourselves a simple question:

What agenda would we like the government to pass for the betterment of the nation?

We are asking people to form groups of from 4000 to 8000 people in every one of the 435 congressional districts, which is 1 to 2% of the population. Once our groups are formed, we meet like jurors in deliberation or townspeople during the colonial period when they instructed their representatives on what policies to push forward and what bills to support. At that time, if the representative didn’t follow their instructions, he could be recalled.

In other words, we are not talking about a party platform written by political consultants and the donor class, we are talking about a bottom up organization not unlike jury duty when twelve citizens analyze the evidence and the law and try to come to an anonymous conclusion.

This is the beauty of what we are trying to do. We are not beholden to party establishments or high paid political consultants steeped in the depravity of the donor class, we are grounded in the values of the middle and working class; those who earn their living. People who understand restraint, living within one’s means, the importance of education, give and take, and knowing that public service is not for private gain.

We are told that Americans from across the political spectrum can not get along with each other, but in our experience as jurors we discovered that when twelve Americans deliberate together on evidence within the parameters of the law, that we look beyond our differences and find common ground.

Once we have agreed upon our demands and set the priorities, we will demand a citizen’s summons with our representative or those vying for the seat. We then present them with our list of prioritized demands, telling them if they want our votes, they must agree to support them. In the following pages, we share our list of demands, but these must be agreed upon, democratically and consensually by the whole group, and then prioritized. 

Our votes will no longer be given to either party for free. Our vision will no longer be ignored. If they want our votes, they must serve us by supporting the people’s agenda. It is that simple. For the number of hours anyone one of us can spend on a day of protesting, we can accomplish more by working together and coming up with concrete demands.

That is why We the People Lead must get actively involved in the political process, leverage our voices and votes, and push the People’s platform onto one or BOTH political parties. Surveys show most democrats, independents, and even many republicans agree on, for example, getting money out of politics, ending the endless wars, and returning to a form of the industrial, regulated capitalism that existed in the United States between 1945 and 1975. It is time for the People to Lead! 

Our job at We the People Lead is to put people from their respective congressional districts in contact with others nearby, so they can organize. In other words, we are a communication hub connecting people together. We ask people to write in their state and congressional district in the subject line of their email.