How We Evaluate Every Policy

What it is:
A governing lens applied to every policy decision.

The test asks:

• Does this respect people’s time?

• Does this reduce unnecessary friction?

• Does this preserve dignity without requiring expertise, money, or stamina?

• Who absorbs the cost when systems fail?

Why it matters:
Time is the hidden tax. Dignity is the invisible casualty.

Applies to:
Housing, healthcare, childcare, violence prevention, bureaucracy, labor, licensing, public benefits.

Why the Economy Feels Fake — and Who Pays for That

What it is:
A critique of how modern systems privilege people who never have to manage cash flow, paperwork, or timing risk.

• Imaginary money world: abstraction, buffers, flexibility, financial instruments

• Bill money world: cash flow, due dates, penalties, rigid systems, real consequences

Why it matters:
Most policy is designed by and for people who don’t live in the bill-money world.

Connects directly to:

• Tax systems

• Social safety nets

• Small business failure

• Gig work

• Bureaucratic overload

• Executive dysfunction

Stop Pathologizing People for Broken Design

What it is:
A reframing of burnout, overwhelm, ADHD, and “incompetence” as rational responses to hostile systems.

Core claim:
We have built a society that makes functioning impossible — then blame individuals when they struggle.

Why it matters politically:

• It explains paralysis in government

• It explains public distrust

• It explains stalled progress

• It explains why “competent leadership” still fails to act

Bridge to leadership:
We keep choosing leaders insulated from friction — not those capable of redesigning systems.

Why Urgency Disappears After Election Day

What it is:
A critique of how elected officials increasingly behave like process managers instead of accountable leaders.

Key distinctions:

• Civil servants administer systems

• Elected officials are supposed to change them

The problem:
Listening tours, task forces, process, and delay substitute for action — even when authority exists.

Why this matters:
It explains the gap voters feel between:

• Campaign promises

• Actual outcomes

• Lived urgency

I am not anti-government. I am pro-accountability.

Why Worth Shouldn’t Depend on Productivity

What it is:
A moral and economic critique of tying human value to market output.

Shows up in:

• Care work

• Parenting

• Disability

• Aging

• Gig labor

• Low-wage work

Why it matters:
Policy built on market worth produces shame, scarcity, and exclusion — not efficiency.

And We’re Treating It Like a Culture War

What it is:
A reframing of violence — including gun violence — as a public health problem, not just a criminal or rights-based one.

Core ideas:

• Prevention works

• Early intervention works

• Data-driven approaches save lives

Why this matters:
It allows progress without pretending guns will disappear — and shifts focus to root causes.

What Happens When Politics, Markets, and Regulation Collide

What it is:
A concrete example of everything in the first six pillars.

Cannabis illustrates:

• Regulatory overreach

• Capital mismatch

• Informal vs. formal economies

• Market collapse due to political design

• Lost public revenue

• Broken promises

Why it matters:
I have lived this dysfunction, at scale, for over a decade. (Reality check: so have most of you, dear readers.)

Why This Campaign Exists at All

What it is:
A rejection of the idea that leadership requires:

• permission

• insulation

• consultants

• donor class approval

Core message:
My life prepared me for leadership — just not the version politics expects.

Why it matters:
Everyone can and should get involved where and how they are. Politics needs participation, not spectatorship.

What it is:

Politics feels inaccessible not because people are apathetic or unintelligent, but because access has been deliberately professionalized.

Why this matters:

Democracy only works when access to it isn’t gated by money, time, or insider knowledge.

The form of this campaign is intentional.

It’s designed to surface contradictions, invite participation, and lower the barrier to engagement — without flattening complexity.

Why this matters:

Traditional campaigns assume attention, trust, and shared language. Most people have none of those luxuries.

Art creates entry points where institutions have failed. It allows people to engage without mastery, to reflect before agreeing, and to see themselves inside political conversations instead of talked about from above.

If democracy is going to survive this moment, it needs new infrastructure — not just better messaging. Art is part of how we build it.