People Power

You know, I had a major breakthrough about the Truth Party this week.

And that’s good, because when you’re starting a political movement at 69 years old, breakthroughs are really all you’ve got.

Because I started thinking… do we really need another political party?

Honestly? We already have Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Libertarians, Greens, Constitutionalists… at this point America has so many political parties, we’re basically Coachella for disappointment.

Every four years they all come out with booths.

“Try our candidate!”

“No, try ours!”

And by November everybody’s standing in a parking lot eating a $19 hot dog wondering what happened.

I realized the problem isn’t that we don’t have enough parties.

The problem is we don’t have enough people participating.

Think about it.

Americans love complaining about politics.

Oh, we are world champions at complaining.

We’ll spend three hours explaining why the country is falling apart…

…to someone we’ve never met…

…on Facebook…

…while sitting on a toilet.

But then Election Day comes around and suddenly everybody’s got plans.

“I was gonna vote, but, you know… traffic.”

Traffic?!

The Founding Fathers crossed the Delaware River in winter!

You can’t cross town in an air-conditioned Honda?

And then we act shocked.

“How did these people get elected?”

Well, mathematically speaking, by the people who actually got off the couch.

That’s how.

I think we’ve become spectators instead of citizens.

We’ve turned democracy into Netflix.

We sit there with snacks.

We critique the characters.

We yell at the screen.

“This season is terrible!”

Well, yeah. Because you didn’t participate in the writing room.

That’s what the Truth Party is really about.

It’s not about me running for office.

Trust me, the last thing America needs is another 69-year-old guy standing behind a podium yelling, “I’ve got a plan!”

America already has plenty of those.

No.

The Truth Party is about four things:

Wake up.

Get engaged.

Increase participation.

Demand accountability.

That’s it.

Because here’s the truth:

Politicians don’t actually have the power.

We do.

We’ve just been outsourcing it for so long we’ve forgotten where we left it.

And maybe that’s the mission.

Not to build another political party.

To remind people that democracy isn’t a spectator sport.

You have to get off your ass and play.