And I don’t think it’s as simple as America moving left or America moving right.
Look at Minnesota.
Peggy Flanagan just won the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate. She beat Angie Craig, who had considerably more financial resources and represented the more traditional Democratic establishment.
And what did Flanagan run on?
Universal healthcare. A higher minimum wage. Challenging the Democratic establishment. Reconsidering unconditional American aid to Israel.
Those are progressive ideas.
But here’s the fascinating part: she didn’t run around screaming, “I’m a democratic socialist!”
Maybe Americans are finally getting tired of the labels.
Because we’ve spent decades arguing about words.
Socialist!
Capitalist!
Liberal!
Conservative!
MAGA!
Progressive!
Meanwhile, somebody’s sitting at the kitchen table wondering how the hell they’re going to pay the electric bill.
They don’t need an “-ism.”
They need an answer.
Healthcare shouldn’t be a left-wing idea.
Good schools shouldn’t be a right-wing idea.
Roads and bridges aren’t Democratic.
A strong military isn’t Republican.
A living wage isn’t socialist.
And fiscal responsibility sure as hell shouldn’t belong to anybody exclusively.
These are things a functioning country does.
And that’s where I think we’re missing the bigger story.
Maybe the political revolution coming to America isn’t about moving everybody farther left.
Maybe it isn’t about moving everybody farther right.
Maybe it’s about moving everybody off the couch.
That’s the idea behind the Truth Party.
We’re not interested in becoming the tenth political tribe fighting with the other nine.
We want to be the meeting place.
You can be Republican.
You can be Democrat.
You can be progressive.
You can be conservative.
You can be independent.
I don’t care.
But there’s one choice every American eventually has to make:
Are you going to be a spectator—or are you going to be a citizen?
Because spectators complain about the government.
Citizens participate in it.
Spectators scream at the television.
Citizens show up.
Spectators blame Washington.
Citizens vote, organize, volunteer, ask questions and demand accountability.
And maybe that’s what elections like Minnesota are beginning to tell us.
People aren’t necessarily looking for another ideology.
They’re looking for something that works.
So forget the labels for a minute.
Forget left versus right.
Forget red versus blue.
Let’s start asking a much simpler question:
What would actually make life better for the most Americans?
Then let’s argue about it.
Let’s debate it.
Let’s vote on it.
And then let’s get to work.
Because democracy was never supposed to be a television show.
It’s a participation sport.
The Truth Party exists to turn spectators into citizens.
And before we change America—
first, we show up.
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