Reclaiming the Political Process in a Constitutional Republic Liberty Enforcement Podcast

The problem we're facing is not so much corruption as much as really bad  decision-making that's driven heavily by people's pet projects rather  than citizen needs.

Because what we have is we have three  distinct entities in our political process. We have the citizens, we  have our elected representatives, and then we have the people who are  hired to do the actual tasks. So the elected representatives are  supposed to oversee the staff, and kind of, by representing the will of  the people.

So the question becomes who sets the agenda for what  governments should be doing? And right now we have our elected  representatives, because there is no real oversight over them. Because  people are not showing up to the meetings, they're not really engaged in  the political process.

Our representatives who are not meant to  be leaders, they are meant to be representatives in a republican form  of government, the constitutional republic that we are, they're supposed  to be representative not leaders. And what they're doing right now is  because there is no pressure on them, they are essentially creating  their own agenda based on their own pet projects, ideologies and so on.

So,  once we've identified the problem that the issue is that who sets the  agenda, the answer becomes really simple. the people have to start  driving the agenda. And the way that we start driving the agenda is by  actually engaging our elected representatives at the meetings, by email,  by phone, and driving them towards solving the problems that we see as  the real problems in our counties, and our cities and our school  districts, rather than whatever they imagine the problems to be.