August 6, 2025 • 32 mins
What if we eliminated political parties, campaign fundraising, and career politicians from our federal government? Herbie K offers a compelling alternative to our broken system in this thought-provoking exploration of Anti-Politism.
At its core, Anti-Politism proposes replacing congressional elections with a merit-based lottery system that would select representatives from among citizens who have demonstrated they understand how the system works. Qualified participants would be those over 35, in the top third of income earners, without criminal records, who work full-time—creating an elite that's accessible to anyone willing to work hard and achieve.
The current redistricting battles raging in Texas, California, and New York perfectly illustrate why such a radical change is necessary. Our system has devolved into partisan manipulation, with both parties engaging in the same gerrymandering they condemn when the other side does it. Anti-Politism would eliminate this problem entirely by creating simple geographic districts with equal populations—no strange shapes needed when representatives are randomly selected.
Perhaps most revolutionary is how this approach transforms federal service from an ambition to a duty. Representatives would serve a single four-year term and then return to private life, eliminating the career politician problem that has plagued American governance. Since 80-90% of a modern congressperson's time is spent fundraising rather than legislating, Anti-Politism proposes making Congress a part-time position that primarily convenes to pass the annual budget and address national emergencies.
Whether you find yourself nodding in agreement or questioning these ideas, Herbie K's passionate case for a return to true republican governance will make you reconsider fundamental assumptions about how our democracy should function. Explore the full vision in his book "A Radical Reset: The Manifesto of Antipolitism," available now on Amazon.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey everybody, it's me, Herbie K, your host today
and every time on A RadicalReset, the podcast of
anti-politism, which today we'regoing to discuss why.
It just couldn't play more intowhy anti-politism is necessary
than to watch what's going onbetween the parties over
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redistricting both in Texas andCalifornia and New York.
And I'm not going to go intothe details of the redistricting
because it makes absolutely nodifference to me, other than to
say that what they're talkingabout.
Let's just do a quick overviewon what they're talking about
and why this is pertinent to thediscussion of anti-olitism and
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why it would be a much bettersystem.
Quickly, an overview for thoseof you who are unfamiliar with
antipolitism.
And, by the way, if you wouldlike to get a much deeper dive,
go to Amazon and pick up a copyof A Radical Reset, the
Manifesto of Antipolitism by me.
I'm in the business of arevision right now, by the way,
I'm updating it a little bit.
And anti-politism and one ofthe big updates is this
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Anti-politism, is a republic bymerit-based lottery for
selection to the Federal Houseof Representatives, For the
Senate, I advocate repealing the17th Amendment and returning
the selection of senators to thevarious state legislatures.
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Now, in brief overview.
Again, there's much more to itand in the book there's a lot
more into policy prescriptionsand so on and so forth.
But the policy prescriptions inthe book, frankly, are
suggestions, not orders fromabove.
The core of the book isanti-politics in the system, and
what it does is eliminates theneed to have federal parties at
all.
So, in the context of well,here let me go into it just in a
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quick overview for those of youwho are unfamiliar.
It is, instead of doing thesecongressional districts that all
look strange, like, for example, I filed my letter of intent
and I'm now collectingsignatures to be on the ballot
as a Libertarian in next year'selection for the 4th
Congressional District ofArizona.
Now, the 4th CongressionalDistrict of Arizona, like every
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other congressional district, isnot a geometrically explainable
shape.
Let's just put it to you thatway.
It's not a circle, square,trapezoid, octahedron.
It is a octahedron.
What a stupid thing to insertin there.
That's what happens when you'rejust riffing.
But they all have strangeshapes.
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Some of them are very strange.
There's some look likefishhooks, some look like long,
straight strips, but what theyall are.
Some look like fishhooks, Somelook like long, straight strips,
but what they all are are theattempts of state legislatures
from time to time, andtheoretically it's every 10
years, but they've already blownthat.
The Democrats right just quicklyon the current debate, they're
all complaining that theRepublicans are doing something.
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That's you know.
This should only be done every10 years.
The two governors making theloudest noise about it New York
and California both did it, youknow, without waiting for the 10
years.
The two governors making theloudest noise about it New York
and California both did it, youknow, without waiting for the 10
years.
I mean, this is the pot callingthe kettle black, you know.
So, forgetting that part of thedebate and the disgusting
hypocrisy of the whole thing andantipolitism would be
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completely unnecessary.
So the way antipolitism worksis that basically, by email, a
questioner goes out to everyoneover the age of 35 in the state
and ask them some simplequestions, which the first
question is how much did youearn last year, Gross?
And the second question is howold are you?
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And the third question is doyou have any criminal
convictions in your background?
Now, if the answer on theincome turns out that that
income from last year is in thetop third of income earners, you
qualify as well as being overthe age of 35 and not having a
criminal background.
If those three things arepresent, you are qualified for
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the lottery itself.
Now why the top third of incomeearners?
Simply this, regardless ofwhether you in the original
version.
If you went to look at the booknow, just before the revision's
about to take place, you wouldsee I talk a lot about college
education and so on and so forth.
But time has changed my view onthat and I think college
education is as much a negativeas a positive.
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So, rather than trying tofigure out who went to college
and turned into a communist andwho went to college and
understands that a free marketis the only way to provide for
the prosperity of people, Isimply do it by placing.
If you're in the top third ofincome earners, then,
theoretically, you at least knowhow to play the game according
to the rules as it's laid down.
You understand that the freemarket works well because it's
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worked for you.
You have, regardless of whereyou started whether it was at
the very bottom or somewhereabove that you have achieved
your way into the top 33 and athird percent of income earners.
So, regardless of what you dofor a living.
You're good at it and you'reeither on your way up or have
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reached the pinnacle, orwhatever it might be, but you're
in the top third of incomeearners and you're over 35.
The reason for that is isbecause, with life expectancies
as they are, when the foundersset up the original constitution
, one of the things theycouldn't have foreseen is how
long people live, which isreally been a huge contributor
to the problem of professionalpoliticians.
In the first place, they justnever envisioned that someone
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would want to spend their entirelife in politics at a time when
there was an agrarian societyand a much simpler world where
the government wasn't expectedto provide for your happiness,
just for your ability to behappy.
Anyway, people typically woulddie at around the age of 40.
Well, now, the average lifeexpectancy is roughly 80.
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And, by the way, figures lie inliar's figure, I know it's
around 78.
But then if you take out thepeople that die before they're
65, the number one cause ofdeath prior to the age of 65 is
accidents.
And as you get older it's lessand less likely you'll die as an
accident because you take lessand less risks, naturally
because your body's telling youeasy does it?
Big fella big gal.
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You know it's just believe me,it's true.
Consequently, the longer youlive, the longer you're going to
live.
So if you live to be 65, thechances are you're going to live
to be 88, actually Okay.
So these long, longcongressional careers where you
have people like you know a lotof you won't remember this guy,
Strom Thurmond or you havesomeone like today, Nancy Pelosi
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, who's over the you know, orPresident Biden, and these
things wouldn't happen.
They were never envisioned.
That anyone lived that long inthe first place.
I realized that Ben Franklindid, but he was an anachronism
for the time.
There's some statistical stuffabout that too, but we won't go
into that.
That would be a digression withno meaning.
So, anyway, in relation totoday's conversation.
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So back to antipolitism.
So by setting it at the topthird of achievers, you have
people that the originalproperty requirements, I think
is outdated.
Originally, the founders put aproperty requirement.
You couldn't vote unless youowned property, the theory being
that, therefore, you had skinin the game.
And remember that this wasbefore 1913.
There was no income tax, sothat wasn't even a discussion at
the time.
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So consequently, but today weno longer live in an agrarian
society.
We don't grow our own food.
It doesn't take 80% of thepeople to grow 100% of the food.
Therefore, most people own land.
Therefore, it wasn't asrestrictive as it sounds.
But today I just read the otherday that for 30-year-olds, as
an example the next generationcoming up only about 10% of them
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will own a house and havechildren by the time they're 30
years old, which is, by the way,an incredibly troubling finding
, which we'll discuss in anotherpodcast.
But having said that, propertyis less the measure, because
we're not in an agrarian society.
We're in a technologicalsociety where property can take
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the form of Bitcoin, and so,saying that you own property and
it has to be dirt, there has tobe some adjustment for that.
So, instead of trying to figureout how much Bitcoin would be
enough or how much in a 401k, orif you, you know people have,
instead of all of that and theincredible amount of accounting
and messing around that wouldcall for, I'm trying to keep it
simple.
I'm just saying that if you'veachieved an income level, oh,
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and the other requirement is youhave to be working full-time
you can't be a retiree and youcan't be a trust fund baby.
Now, it doesn't, but there's nomaximum age.
So if listen, if you want tospeaking for myself, I intend to
die with my boots on.
I don't really picture myselfsitting in the shade under a
rocking chair there's nothingwrong with that or on a rocking
chair, not under it.
If I was under it, I would bemarried to the wrong woman.
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I'm not married at all rightnow, by the way Slight
digression, but that was a weirdthing.
So anyway, the I was justtrying to find a way that you
would have skidded the game, inthe sense that you would play it
according to the rules of thegame.
So, regardless of whether yourent an apartment in New York
City and you don't own it a lotof them do or you own a home or
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you don't, or you choose to livein an RV, whatever it is, as
long as you've achieved into thetop third of income earners,
then you qualify.
As long as you don't haveearners, then you qualify.
As long as you don't have acriminal background, you qualify
.
As long as you work full-time,you qualify.
You can be 80 and workingfull-time, you still qualify.
But if you decide to retire,then you're not going to be
affected as much by what thegovernment does or doesn't do
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where.
If you're a trust fund baby,then you have not achieved your
way into the upper third ofincome.
Therefore you're excluded.
But remember, in the case ofboth the trust fund baby and the
retiree, that's a choice.
Just because you're born with atrust fund doesn't mean you
can't work for a living.
And if you work for a livingand your earnings are in the top
third of income earners, thenby all means join the lottery.
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If you're a retiree and you gotbored, you want to reenter the
workforce and work full time,and you also earn the upper
third because of your experience, your background, your
profession, whatever it might be, God bless you, You're back in
it too.
This is not ageism or any otherism want an elite.
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The whole idea behind arepublic as opposed to a
democracy is you want a rulingelite to make the decisions
because the masses are asses.
Let's be honest about it.
If you don't have skin in thegame, then you don't have any
reason to vote responsibly.
And in the modern time, ifyou're young, you don't have the
life experience to voteresponsibly.
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And I don't mean to pick onthose of you that are under 35
that are listening.
I know you're perfectlyintelligent and capable of
making decisions, but,regardless, you just haven't had
enough of life's experiencesyet and a lot of what is coming
your way is going to be asurprise and it's going to color
you and it's going to make youinto a better person.
Consequently, what's the rush?
Why do you need to get involved?
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Remember that, in anti-politism,politics is not a career.
By by doing it the way I'msuggesting, we convert being
involved in politics at thefederal level from an ambition
to a duty.
In other words, we're basicallydrafting our congressman as
opposed to allowing them todecide they want to be a
congressperson.
And the other advantage of thatis that in today's environment
where people, when they get inthe public life, you know your
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background is going to be openedup.
And, by the way, inantipolitism, I've written in
protections for those people whochoose to serve.
By the way, when I say chooseto serve, if you're selected by
the lottery to be thecongressperson I'll explain that
in a minute you can decline it.
This is not a draft in thesense of you can go to jail for
saying no, but assuming that yousay yes, then you're going to
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serve and you're going to servein office.
But we'll get to that in aminute.
So, with these screens from thatgroup of people that meet this
elite and the idea it's an elitethat anyone can join, it's an
American elite, In other words,all you have to do is be over 35
, have not committed a crime,and that means I'm excluding
myself, by the way, from thepool.
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But so what?
The cemeteries are full of menthat can't be replaced.
I don't think I'm soirreplaceable, I just have one.
That's really good idea and Iwant to share it and I want to
leave it for you to use.
But it's not important whetherI'm allowed to be involved or
not.
Yes, I'm running for office toget attention to the movement,
to build a movement, but at thevery same time, I'm not doing it
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for my personal aggrandizementand I don't think I'm
irreplaceable.
So, anyway, I've eliminatedmyself from potential future
lotteries and everyone like meyeah, they're, you know like why
try to figure out whichcriminal is reformed and which
one isn't.
Just, there's plenty of otherpeople, so let's just go with
that.
So, assuming that you haven'tcommitted a crime and that
you're over the age of 35 andthat you've earned your way in
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the top third of income earnersand you've done it by working,
not by inheriting, and you'renot living on the laurels of the
past.
Assuming all of that is true,you are eligible for the lottery
, and so is anybody else whoworks themselves into the same
position, which makes it, by theway, true that when every
little boy and girl in Americagrows up, one day they could be
the president of the UnitedStates.
It's actually true.
In antipolitism, you don't haveto belong to the Bush or
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Clinton family.
But anyway, or in the old days,Roosevelt or whatever it might
be, there's going to be no moreelites of elites.
There's no more oligarchicelites.
In anti-politism, it's an eliteof achievement.
And so, from this group, what webasically do is, on election
day, instead of having elections, we have a lottery on TV with a
ping pong ball machine in everycongressional district and
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everyone who answers the emailquestionnaire and, by the way,
no one's going to beinvestigated.
The only person whose answersare going to be checked is the
person who says yes, I'll serveis selected by the system.
Everybody else, there's no need.
There's no need to carry out amillion investigations, or 10
million, or 340.
That's ridiculous.
We only have to double checkthe claims.
It's an honor system untilyou're selected, and then we
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just double check to make sureyou weren't lying on your
application and on we go fromthere.
We don't need to do a deepcriminal background check.
The fact you don't have arecord is good enough.
You know if you're workingfull-time, good enough, you made
that much income, good enough.
But we don't have to check thatfor everybody until that person
is selected.
So let's say that in any givencongressional district.
So instead of them being allkinds of odd shapes, they'll be
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equal geographic areas, justsplit up to make roughly equal
pockets of population, equal tothe number of congressional
districts in each state.
I propose keeping the number ofcongressmen the same at 435.
And yes, populations move andwill have to be adjusted from
time to time.
But based on what thepopulation of your state can
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justify as number of Congressseats, your state is then
divided into equal areas bypopulation of those state can
justify as number of Congressseats.
Your state is then divided intoequal areas by population of
those with no strange shapes,because there's no need for
Democrats or Republicans,because there's not going to be
an election and the personthat's going to be selected is
going to be completely randomfrom the pool.
Consequently, there'sabsolutely no need to worry
about building candidates orbuilding campaigns or raising
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money.
There's no campaign, there's noelection, there's no need to
raise money.
The person that's selected isgoing to be selected based
solely on the random chance fromthe lottery, and I base that
simply on the theory that Icould pretty much walk through
any crowd in America and pointto 435 people at random and get
an average IQ as high or higherthan the Congress of the United
States today.
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The only objection to what I'msuggesting would be and this is
the objection that will be madeis we're going to lose all that
experience, all these peoples,and I would say, based on track
record.
Goodbye to that experience.
I don't see any experience atthe federal level of those
governing us that would justifyhonoring their background and
what they've done.
You know, other thanparliamentary procedure, which
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anyone can learn, and we'll talkabout that either in this
podcast or one down the road,fostering a culture of.
Well, let me talk about it now,what it'll do, since everyone
knows that if they work up intothe top third, they're going to
be eligible for the lottery oneday.
Then things like in high schoolteaching people how the Congress
works becomes more of acultural imperative, since you
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really might be there one day.
Consequently, it'll breed moreinterest, more healthy interest,
and since there will be nopolitical parties, there will be
no, not to say there won't be,programs that cater to the right
and left and people won't havetheir opinions.
But what tends to happen isit's like Winston Churchill used
to say if you're not under 30and a socialist, you have no
heart.
If you're not over 30 and acapitalist, you have no heart.
If you're not over 30 and acapitalist, you have no brain.
I probably ruined that, but Ithink that's pretty much what he
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said.
And as people, as you climb theladder, you start to realize the
foolishness of the idea that agovernment can do anything for
anybody other than basicallyfuck things up.
To the extent the governmentgets out of the way with rare
exception is to the extent thatthe government should even exist
.
And at the federal level, theonly thing the government should
be doing is conducting foreignpolicy, maintaining the military
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and chasing down interstatecriminals and maintaining the
books, the treasury, that's it.
Everything else should bedevolved to the state level.
So again, that's a longerdiscussion, and the reason for
that is simply that the peopleare closer to their governments
at the state level than they areat the federal level.
So if your state, it's not goingto be like, for example, in an
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anti-political state, and anyonewho's earned their way to the
top understands, for example,that the welfare state has
failed and destroyed the nuclearfamily.
Therefore there should be nofederal welfare state.
We keep funding it because it'san entitlement.
We've somehow invented thatword, but it's not only
shouldn't be an entitlement, itshouldn't exist.
It has destroyed the nuclearfamily and is particularly in
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the black community.
But like a cancer it'sspreading throughout the entire
country and the quickest thingto help stem that would be to
cut it off, because then thefamily becomes the primary
source of support.
Therefore it reestablishes theneed for a family in the first
place.
And then we get back to, forexample, if you knock a girl up,
you get married, but I don'twant to go down that road too
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much today.
But you understand the culturaladvantages of getting rid of
free, but young people stillthink that maybe we can find a
way to help people out ofpoverty when, as you get older,
more experienced, you realizethat the reason that the people
are in poverty permanently isbecause they were born into it
and then make spend their entirelives making shitty decisions,
because nobody in theirnon-existent nuclear family ever
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taught them how to makedecisions to climb out of
poverty.
Before 1965, poverty in thiscountry and everywhere else was
temporary.
You'd fall into it and yourfamily would pull together and
you'd pull out of it.
Now it's a lifestyle and it'spervasive and it's made our
cities into war zones andeverything else.
And this is all because itexists.
So anyway, I don't know why Iwent into this.
When I'm trying to just explainanti-politicism, it's because
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I'm passionate guys.
So, anyway, whatever theyselect, there's no requirement
to devolve the federal officestate.
That's a suggestion, but thelegislature will be made up of
people that are selectedstrictly because they've
achieved something, which meansthat there'll be men and women.
There'll be a lot less lawyers,instead of over half the
Congress being lawyers, which,let's be honest, what is a
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lawyer?
But a paid intellectualprostitute who will represent
you in any position.
They're trained to take anyposition and defend it.
What does that tell you abouttheir backbone?
Not that I disrespect lawyers.
You see, they aren't important,God knows.
I've had dear friends.
I've had family members.
I have family members.
It's not that I hate theprofession, it's that we
shouldn't have over 50% of theCongress made up of basically
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paid weasels.
It just makes absolutely nosense at all.
But in an anti-politicalCongress, the Congress, the
House of Representatives, willbe made up of every profession
across the spectrumentrepreneurs, farmers,
engineers, male and female,black and white, brown, Arab,
Asian, it doesn't matter.
We'll have a very much morediverse Congress just because of
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the randomness of selection,but with the commonality that
each and every person selectedhas climbed their way to a level
of success which means theyhave shared values and that's
the most important thing.
Underlying all of this is theslide in the decadence and
depravity that this country ison an accelerating path of, with
AI coming online, and we've gotto do something to stem that
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and and.
That is anti-politicism.
And, by the way, the reason I'vechanged my mind about
anti-politics I used to saylet's do a statewide lottery,
the same way for the Senate, butI've changed my mind to the
senators should be selected bytheir state houses, which means
at the state level there's goingto be politics, but at the
state level they can do muchless harm than at the federal
level, because they can't printmoney.
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And if you can't print money,you can only spend what you
collect.
And if you can only spend whatyou collect, that puts a severe
limit on how stupid governmentcan be.
It's the very the federalgovernment has a printing press
that makes it dangerous, whichmeans also, I believe, in the
end of the Federal Reserve, butthat's another discussion for
another day.
We do not need one, even in amodern economy, but I'm not
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going there today.
So, having said that, it wouldeliminate this entire.
So the reason for that I anywaywent back to have the senators
selected by the states is sothat they're more answerable to
their individual states, and soit's more, we should get a more
experienced and seasoned groupof people in the Senate.
And, by the way, all terms in ananti-political world, including
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the one selected by the one anddone, there's no two-term
serving, it's one term Of fouryears in the House and Senate.
You're done.
Also, the president four years,one and done.
Everything is one and done.
Now there's more details, andthere's details on how the
president is selected, which isnot by direct election, it's by.
Well, it's done by.
You'll understand it when youread a radical reset.
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It's a better system.
It takes not some of the moneyout of politics, it takes all of
the money out of politics, andby taking the political parties
out of the federal governmentaltogether, what it does is it
means that we get people.
We have an elite at the highestlevel of people who are the
people that are pulling the cartand know better than to do
stupid things Now at the statelevel, if they want to
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experiment and see if they caninvent a welfare system that
actually works and one of thestates actually does it and
other states want to copy it, byall means.
Another part of antipolitism isthat we're going to kill the
income tax and repeal the incometax altogether.
It never existed from thebeginning In a much smaller
federal government.
We just won't need it.
There are plenty of other waysfor the federal government to
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raise money for itself and letthe states, if they want to have
an income tax at the state, letthem.
Then the people of the stateknow how much things cost and if
it's worth it to them to havean income tax and to pay a
certain percentage of theirincome for the state to provide
a benefit that's quality in anyparticular state, then God bless
them.
Do it Again.
They can't print money.
Why not?
Okay, as long as you're payingthe bills, go ahead.
But then when you make it, itfucks up, which all central
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control usually does.
Let's just say it always doesup to this point, so let's just
pretend that it continues thatway and all this experimentation
turns for naught.
Well fine, they just haven'tdamaged the whole country doing
it.
But at the same time, it alsoallows laboratories.
All the states becomelaboratories of experimentation
for things like better educationthat other states can copy.
But also remember that ourstates are like 50 little
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countries with differentdemographics.
So even if they do welfareprograms in all 50 states, if
that's what happens, great, butthere will be custom design for
the demographic and populationof that state, which is much
smaller than a whole nation,which means it has a better
chance of working.
Okay, and I could go through allthe different issues and I'm
tempted to do it, but really inrelation to what's going on
today in today's podcast, so wedon't go on forever, what's
going on in Texas simplywouldn't happen.
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There'd be no discussion,There'd be no gerrymandered
districts, There'd be no wastingof the time of state
legislatures who ought to bespending their time doing things
like improving the education ofthe children of their state,
let's say, is just one exampleor doing a better job in the
prison system or with lawenforcement, whatever it might
be.
Wasting their time on politicalcrap like this, Okay, it also
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will get rid of the politicalhacks that are doing it.
Okay Now, yes, at the statelevel, there will still be
politics.
Yes, at the state level, therewill still be elections, but
much less money, much lessinvolved and also much closer to
the people.
So if the guy next door is yourstate representative, as is
commonly the case, and you seesuddenly his lifestyle changing
from the better, that's a prettyclear sign that something
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corrupt is going on and he'sgoing to get caught.
It's much more difficult tohide corruption at the state
level as well, just becauseyou're so much closer to the
people that are voting for youin the first place and your
secrets.
It's like living in a smalltown the smaller the population,
the more likely it is yoursecrets are going to come out.
It's like when you live in asmall town and you're cheating
on your spouse unless you're anidiot, you don't do it in the
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same small town.
Okay, but, by the way, I'm notsuggesting anybody cheat on
their spouse.
I'm just saying that youbasically don't make mischief at
home because it's going to getcaught.
You know, the best suggestionis don't cheat on your spouse.
Let me be very clear about that.
But having said that, even ifyou were a cheater, you wouldn't
do it at home.
And so if you're going to steal, it's very difficult to steal
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at home because the idiot nextdoor knows what's going on.
Okay, so anyway, I think that'swhere I'll stop it.
This is why anti-politism makessense.
This is why we have to get ridof these elections.
This is why we have democracy.
Is mob rule.
Anti-politism is a return to arepublic run by an elite that's
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an elite of merit and open toanybody who wants to work hard
and put their nose to thegrindstone and achieve.
Then they can become part ofthe elite and part of good,
solid, responsible.
And when I say one term, it'sone and done.
You go, you serve and you'redone.
By the way, it's also apart-time job.
Just one last in ananti-political world, going to
the federal Congress would be apart-time job.
Just one last thing In ananti-political world, going to
the federal Congress would be apart-time job, because the
federal government A would bemuch smaller.
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But, most importantly, today infact, check me on this guys,
Look it up, Google it, Be myguest or whatever search engine
you prefer what percentage oftime do Congress people spend
raising money, as opposed tolegislating, and you will find
out that they spend 80 to 90percent of their time raising
money, because to run forCongress today means that you
need to raise around 15 to 20million dollars if you expect to
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win in a major political partyand to run for Senate, you have
to raise that much more,depending on the size of your
state.
And you know what that's justgoing to breed corruption.
All we have now is legalizedcorruption.
That's what federal financelaws are, and if you really
understand them, whenever anyparty's in power and they pass
campaign reform, they alwaysreform it in their favor to
manipulate the system their way.
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I'm saying we get rid of italtogether no money at the
federal level.
So when you go to serve inCongress, since you're not
spending 80 to 90% of your timeraising money, you're only
spending 10% of the timeotherwise, which means you don't
have to make it a full-time job.
You come to Washington to passa budget every year and then you
go home, unless there's anational emergency, and while
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you're in Washington and doingthe budget, which is the primary
responsibility that they neverachieved I don't think it's been
achieved since the 90s, thelast time they actually passed
the budget which is the onething the Congress should do,
their one job.
They can't really do it.
Their one most important job,their one ongoing job.
Yes, they declare war.
That's what I mean by nationalemergencies.
Yes, there might be a hurricaneand we might have to call
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Congress into session to sendsome federal aid to that state,
and so on and so forth.
But apart from theseemergencies, okay, you would
basically be at home doing yourregular job.
So when you go to Washington toserve, you would be paid per
diem, whatever it is that youearned the previous year before
you were selected for Congress.
So if you made $100,000 a year,you'd get roughly $300 a day
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for every day you're serving inCongress, and I just picked that
number out of the air becauseit's a round number.
I don't even know if that's inthe top third anymore, but
whatever it is, you get onethree hundred and sixty fifth of
it per diem for every dayyou're in Washington.
The government will pay yourairfare coach, by the way, to
and from commercial.
Now if you own your own plane,you have to be randomly selected
to fly your own plane, forChrist's sake.
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And if you want to upgrade yourticket, be my guest.
But it's not on the taxpayer'sdime.
Taxpayers done Otherwise.
You're flown, coached toWashington DC.
While you're serving, Whileyou're there, you'll be put up
in.
Basically, I say, take one ofthe federal buildings that will
empty out, convert it and turnit into an apartment complex of
exceptionally high security,which is where everybody stays
when they're in town working inCongress, and they just serve
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their four-year term and they'redone.
And once they're done, they cannever be reselected and that's
the end of it.
It converts ambition to duty.
It becomes a duty.
You might be called upon to doyour duty.
Therefore, you should keep upon events and what's going on in
the world.
People who have achievedsomething do it.
Naturally.
You don't have to tell them todo it.
We want our best and brightestto be the ones who are in charge
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If you're not playing the gameand you're essentially a
parasite collecting from thestate when you don't pay in,
what are you doing?
Voting for how much you take?
You cannot allow a mosquito tovote for how much blood they
suck.
Sorry, I know that's an uglyanalogy, but it's true.
And that's the end of thepodcast.
Today, and I think I've made mypoint.
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We don't need no stinkinggerrymandering.
We don't need no stinkingredrawing of districts.
We just need antipolitism.
Again, let me remind you topick up a copy of A Radical
Reset the Manifesto ofAntipolitism.
It's available to you inpaperback, Kindle and hardcover
at Amazon.
Please share this podcast withfriends, neighbors and the like.
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throw this out there, volunteerand work with me.
There are ways to reach me.
You'll find them wherever it isthat you're listening to this.
Reach out, contact me and getinvolved, because we have a
movement to build and a world tochange and a country to save.
God bless you, God bless yourfamily, God bless America.
Have a beautiful day.
Hey everybody, it's me, Herbie K, your host today
and every time on A RadicalReset, the podcast of
anti-politism, which today we'regoing to discuss why.
It just couldn't play more intowhy anti-politism is necessary
than to watch what's going onbetween the parties over
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redistricting both in Texas andCalifornia and New York.
And I'm not going to go intothe details of the redistricting
because it makes absolutely nodifference to me, other than to
say that what they're talkingabout.
Let's just do a quick overviewon what they're talking about
and why this is pertinent to thediscussion of anti-olitism and
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why it would be a much bettersystem.
Quickly, an overview for thoseof you who are unfamiliar with
antipolitism.
And, by the way, if you wouldlike to get a much deeper dive,
go to Amazon and pick up a copyof A Radical Reset, the
Manifesto of Antipolitism by me.
I'm in the business of arevision right now, by the way,
I'm updating it a little bit.
And anti-politism and one ofthe big updates is this
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Anti-politism, is a republic bymerit-based lottery for
selection to the Federal Houseof Representatives, For the
Senate, I advocate repealing the17th Amendment and returning
the selection of senators to thevarious state legislatures.
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Now, in brief overview.
Again, there's much more to itand in the book there's a lot
more into policy prescriptionsand so on and so forth.
But the policy prescriptions inthe book, frankly, are
suggestions, not orders fromabove.
The core of the book isanti-politics in the system, and
what it does is eliminates theneed to have federal parties at
all.
So, in the context of well,here let me go into it just in a
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quick overview for those of youwho are unfamiliar.
It is, instead of doing thesecongressional districts that all
look strange, like, for example, I filed my letter of intent
and I'm now collectingsignatures to be on the ballot
as a Libertarian in next year'selection for the 4th
Congressional District ofArizona.
Now, the 4th CongressionalDistrict of Arizona, like every
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other congressional district, isnot a geometrically explainable
shape.
Let's just put it to you thatway.
It's not a circle, square,trapezoid, octahedron.
It is a octahedron.
What a stupid thing to insertin there.
That's what happens when you'rejust riffing.
But they all have strangeshapes.
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Some of them are very strange.
There's some look likefishhooks, some look like long,
straight strips, but what theyall are.
Some look like fishhooks, Somelook like long, straight strips,
but what they all are are theattempts of state legislatures
from time to time, andtheoretically it's every 10
years, but they've already blownthat.
The Democrats right just quicklyon the current debate, they're
all complaining that theRepublicans are doing something.
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That's you know.
This should only be done every10 years.
The two governors making theloudest noise about it New York
and California both did it, youknow, without waiting for the 10
years.
The two governors making theloudest noise about it New York
and California both did it, youknow, without waiting for the 10
years.
I mean, this is the pot callingthe kettle black, you know.
So, forgetting that part of thedebate and the disgusting
hypocrisy of the whole thing andantipolitism would be
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completely unnecessary.
So the way antipolitism worksis that basically, by email, a
questioner goes out to everyoneover the age of 35 in the state
and ask them some simplequestions, which the first
question is how much did youearn last year, Gross?
And the second question is howold are you?
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And the third question is doyou have any criminal
convictions in your background?
Now, if the answer on theincome turns out that that
income from last year is in thetop third of income earners, you
qualify as well as being overthe age of 35 and not having a
criminal background.
If those three things arepresent, you are qualified for
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the lottery itself.
Now why the top third of incomeearners?
Simply this, regardless ofwhether you in the original
version.
If you went to look at the booknow, just before the revision's
about to take place, you wouldsee I talk a lot about college
education and so on and so forth.
But time has changed my view onthat and I think college
education is as much a negativeas a positive.
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So, rather than trying tofigure out who went to college
and turned into a communist andwho went to college and
understands that a free marketis the only way to provide for
the prosperity of people, Isimply do it by placing.
If you're in the top third ofincome earners, then,
theoretically, you at least knowhow to play the game according
to the rules as it's laid down.
You understand that the freemarket works well because it's
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worked for you.
You have, regardless of whereyou started whether it was at
the very bottom or somewhereabove that you have achieved
your way into the top 33 and athird percent of income earners.
So, regardless of what you dofor a living.
You're good at it and you'reeither on your way up or have
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reached the pinnacle, orwhatever it might be, but you're
in the top third of incomeearners and you're over 35.
The reason for that is isbecause, with life expectancies
as they are, when the foundersset up the original constitution
, one of the things theycouldn't have foreseen is how
long people live, which isreally been a huge contributor
to the problem of professionalpoliticians.
In the first place, they justnever envisioned that someone
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would want to spend their entirelife in politics at a time when
there was an agrarian societyand a much simpler world where
the government wasn't expectedto provide for your happiness,
just for your ability to behappy.
Anyway, people typically woulddie at around the age of 40.
Well, now, the average lifeexpectancy is roughly 80.
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And, by the way, figures lie inliar's figure, I know it's
around 78.
But then if you take out thepeople that die before they're
65, the number one cause ofdeath prior to the age of 65 is
accidents.
And as you get older it's lessand less likely you'll die as an
accident because you take lessand less risks, naturally
because your body's telling youeasy does it?
Big fella big gal.
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You know it's just believe me,it's true.
Consequently, the longer youlive, the longer you're going to
live.
So if you live to be 65, thechances are you're going to live
to be 88, actually Okay.
So these long, longcongressional careers where you
have people like you know a lotof you won't remember this guy,
Strom Thurmond or you havesomeone like today, Nancy Pelosi
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, who's over the you know, orPresident Biden, and these
things wouldn't happen.
They were never envisioned.
That anyone lived that long inthe first place.
I realized that Ben Franklindid, but he was an anachronism
for the time.
There's some statistical stuffabout that too, but we won't go
into that.
That would be a digression withno meaning.
So, anyway, in relation totoday's conversation.
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So back to antipolitism.
So by setting it at the topthird of achievers, you have
people that the originalproperty requirements, I think
is outdated.
Originally, the founders put aproperty requirement.
You couldn't vote unless youowned property, the theory being
that, therefore, you had skinin the game.
And remember that this wasbefore 1913.
There was no income tax, sothat wasn't even a discussion at
the time.
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So consequently, but today weno longer live in an agrarian
society.
We don't grow our own food.
It doesn't take 80% of thepeople to grow 100% of the food.
Therefore, most people own land.
Therefore, it wasn't asrestrictive as it sounds.
But today I just read the otherday that for 30-year-olds, as
an example the next generationcoming up only about 10% of them
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will own a house and havechildren by the time they're 30
years old, which is, by the way,an incredibly troubling finding
, which we'll discuss in anotherpodcast.
But having said that, propertyis less the measure, because
we're not in an agrarian society.
We're in a technologicalsociety where property can take
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the form of Bitcoin, and so,saying that you own property and
it has to be dirt, there has tobe some adjustment for that.
So, instead of trying to figureout how much Bitcoin would be
enough or how much in a 401k, orif you, you know people have,
instead of all of that and theincredible amount of accounting
and messing around that wouldcall for, I'm trying to keep it
simple.
I'm just saying that if you'veachieved an income level, oh,
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and the other requirement is youhave to be working full-time
you can't be a retiree and youcan't be a trust fund baby.
Now, it doesn't, but there's nomaximum age.
So if listen, if you want tospeaking for myself, I intend to
die with my boots on.
I don't really picture myselfsitting in the shade under a
rocking chair there's nothingwrong with that or on a rocking
chair, not under it.
If I was under it, I would bemarried to the wrong woman.
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I'm not married at all rightnow, by the way Slight
digression, but that was a weirdthing.
So anyway, the I was justtrying to find a way that you
would have skidded the game, inthe sense that you would play it
according to the rules of thegame.
So, regardless of whether yourent an apartment in New York
City and you don't own it a lotof them do or you own a home or
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you don't, or you choose to livein an RV, whatever it is, as
long as you've achieved into thetop third of income earners,
then you qualify.
As long as you don't haveearners, then you qualify.
As long as you don't have acriminal background, you qualify
.
As long as you work full-time,you qualify.
You can be 80 and workingfull-time, you still qualify.
But if you decide to retire,then you're not going to be
affected as much by what thegovernment does or doesn't do
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where.
If you're a trust fund baby,then you have not achieved your
way into the upper third ofincome.
Therefore you're excluded.
But remember, in the case ofboth the trust fund baby and the
retiree, that's a choice.
Just because you're born with atrust fund doesn't mean you
can't work for a living.
And if you work for a livingand your earnings are in the top
third of income earners, thenby all means join the lottery.
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If you're a retiree and you gotbored, you want to reenter the
workforce and work full time,and you also earn the upper
third because of your experience, your background, your
profession, whatever it might be, God bless you, You're back in
it too.
This is not ageism or any otherism want an elite.
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The whole idea behind arepublic as opposed to a
democracy is you want a rulingelite to make the decisions
because the masses are asses.
Let's be honest about it.
If you don't have skin in thegame, then you don't have any
reason to vote responsibly.
And in the modern time, ifyou're young, you don't have the
life experience to voteresponsibly.
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And I don't mean to pick onthose of you that are under 35
that are listening.
I know you're perfectlyintelligent and capable of
making decisions, but,regardless, you just haven't had
enough of life's experiencesyet and a lot of what is coming
your way is going to be asurprise and it's going to color
you and it's going to make youinto a better person.
Consequently, what's the rush?
Why do you need to get involved?
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Remember that, in anti-politism,politics is not a career.
By by doing it the way I'msuggesting, we convert being
involved in politics at thefederal level from an ambition
to a duty.
In other words, we're basicallydrafting our congressman as
opposed to allowing them todecide they want to be a
congressperson.
And the other advantage of thatis that in today's environment
where people, when they get inthe public life, you know your
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background is going to be openedup.
And, by the way, inantipolitism, I've written in
protections for those people whochoose to serve.
By the way, when I say chooseto serve, if you're selected by
the lottery to be thecongressperson I'll explain that
in a minute you can decline it.
This is not a draft in thesense of you can go to jail for
saying no, but assuming that yousay yes, then you're going to
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serve and you're going to servein office.
But we'll get to that in aminute.
So, with these screens from thatgroup of people that meet this
elite and the idea it's an elitethat anyone can join, it's an
American elite, In other words,all you have to do is be over 35
, have not committed a crime,and that means I'm excluding
myself, by the way, from thepool.
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But so what?
The cemeteries are full of menthat can't be replaced.
I don't think I'm soirreplaceable, I just have one.
That's really good idea and Iwant to share it and I want to
leave it for you to use.
But it's not important whetherI'm allowed to be involved or
not.
Yes, I'm running for office toget attention to the movement,
to build a movement, but at thevery same time, I'm not doing it
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for my personal aggrandizementand I don't think I'm
irreplaceable.
So, anyway, I've eliminatedmyself from potential future
lotteries and everyone like meyeah, they're, you know like why
try to figure out whichcriminal is reformed and which
one isn't.
Just, there's plenty of otherpeople, so let's just go with
that.
So, assuming that you haven'tcommitted a crime and that
you're over the age of 35 andthat you've earned your way in
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the top third of income earnersand you've done it by working,
not by inheriting, and you'renot living on the laurels of the
past.
Assuming all of that is true,you are eligible for the lottery
, and so is anybody else whoworks themselves into the same
position, which makes it, by theway, true that when every
little boy and girl in Americagrows up, one day they could be
the president of the UnitedStates.
It's actually true.
In antipolitism, you don't haveto belong to the Bush or
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Clinton family.
But anyway, or in the old days,Roosevelt or whatever it might
be, there's going to be no moreelites of elites.
There's no more oligarchicelites.
In anti-politism, it's an eliteof achievement.
And so, from this group, what webasically do is, on election
day, instead of having elections, we have a lottery on TV with a
ping pong ball machine in everycongressional district and
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everyone who answers the emailquestionnaire and, by the way,
no one's going to beinvestigated.
The only person whose answersare going to be checked is the
person who says yes, I'll serveis selected by the system.
Everybody else, there's no need.
There's no need to carry out amillion investigations, or 10
million, or 340.
That's ridiculous.
We only have to double checkthe claims.
It's an honor system untilyou're selected, and then we
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just double check to make sureyou weren't lying on your
application and on we go fromthere.
We don't need to do a deepcriminal background check.
The fact you don't have arecord is good enough.
You know if you're workingfull-time, good enough, you made
that much income, good enough.
But we don't have to check thatfor everybody until that person
is selected.
So let's say that in any givencongressional district.
So instead of them being allkinds of odd shapes, they'll be
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equal geographic areas, justsplit up to make roughly equal
pockets of population, equal tothe number of congressional
districts in each state.
I propose keeping the number ofcongressmen the same at 435.
And yes, populations move andwill have to be adjusted from
time to time.
But based on what thepopulation of your state can
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justify as number of Congressseats, your state is then
divided into equal areas bypopulation of those state can
justify as number of Congressseats.
Your state is then divided intoequal areas by population of
those with no strange shapes,because there's no need for
Democrats or Republicans,because there's not going to be
an election and the personthat's going to be selected is
going to be completely randomfrom the pool.
Consequently, there'sabsolutely no need to worry
about building candidates orbuilding campaigns or raising
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money.
There's no campaign, there's noelection, there's no need to
raise money.
The person that's selected isgoing to be selected based
solely on the random chance fromthe lottery, and I base that
simply on the theory that Icould pretty much walk through
any crowd in America and pointto 435 people at random and get
an average IQ as high or higherthan the Congress of the United
States today.
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The only objection to what I'msuggesting would be and this is
the objection that will be madeis we're going to lose all that
experience, all these peoples,and I would say, based on track
record.
Goodbye to that experience.
I don't see any experience atthe federal level of those
governing us that would justifyhonoring their background and
what they've done.
You know, other thanparliamentary procedure, which
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anyone can learn, and we'll talkabout that either in this
podcast or one down the road,fostering a culture of.
Well, let me talk about it now,what it'll do, since everyone
knows that if they work up intothe top third, they're going to
be eligible for the lottery oneday.
Then things like in high schoolteaching people how the Congress
works becomes more of acultural imperative, since you
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really might be there one day.
Consequently, it'll breed moreinterest, more healthy interest,
and since there will be nopolitical parties, there will be
no, not to say there won't be,programs that cater to the right
and left and people won't havetheir opinions.
But what tends to happen isit's like Winston Churchill used
to say if you're not under 30and a socialist, you have no
heart.
If you're not over 30 and acapitalist, you have no heart.
If you're not over 30 and acapitalist, you have no brain.
I probably ruined that, but Ithink that's pretty much what he
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said.
And as people, as you climb theladder, you start to realize the
foolishness of the idea that agovernment can do anything for
anybody other than basicallyfuck things up.
To the extent the governmentgets out of the way with rare
exception is to the extent thatthe government should even exist
.
And at the federal level, theonly thing the government should
be doing is conducting foreignpolicy, maintaining the military
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and chasing down interstatecriminals and maintaining the
books, the treasury, that's it.
Everything else should bedevolved to the state level.
So again, that's a longerdiscussion, and the reason for
that is simply that the peopleare closer to their governments
at the state level than they areat the federal level.
So if your state, it's not goingto be like, for example, in an
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anti-political state, and anyonewho's earned their way to the
top understands, for example,that the welfare state has
failed and destroyed the nuclearfamily.
Therefore there should be nofederal welfare state.
We keep funding it because it'san entitlement.
We've somehow invented thatword, but it's not only
shouldn't be an entitlement, itshouldn't exist.
It has destroyed the nuclearfamily and is particularly in
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the black community.
But like a cancer it'sspreading throughout the entire
country and the quickest thingto help stem that would be to
cut it off, because then thefamily becomes the primary
source of support.
Therefore it reestablishes theneed for a family in the first
place.
And then we get back to, forexample, if you knock a girl up,
you get married, but I don'twant to go down that road too
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much today.
But you understand the culturaladvantages of getting rid of
free, but young people stillthink that maybe we can find a
way to help people out ofpoverty when, as you get older,
more experienced, you realizethat the reason that the people
are in poverty permanently isbecause they were born into it
and then make spend their entirelives making shitty decisions,
because nobody in theirnon-existent nuclear family ever
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taught them how to makedecisions to climb out of
poverty.
Before 1965, poverty in thiscountry and everywhere else was
temporary.
You'd fall into it and yourfamily would pull together and
you'd pull out of it.
Now it's a lifestyle and it'spervasive and it's made our
cities into war zones andeverything else.
And this is all because itexists.
So anyway, I don't know why Iwent into this.
When I'm trying to just explainanti-politicism, it's because
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I'm passionate guys.
So, anyway, whatever theyselect, there's no requirement
to devolve the federal officestate.
That's a suggestion, but thelegislature will be made up of
people that are selectedstrictly because they've
achieved something, which meansthat there'll be men and women.
There'll be a lot less lawyers,instead of over half the
Congress being lawyers, which,let's be honest, what is a
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lawyer?
But a paid intellectualprostitute who will represent
you in any position.
They're trained to take anyposition and defend it.
What does that tell you abouttheir backbone?
Not that I disrespect lawyers.
You see, they aren't important,God knows.
I've had dear friends.
I've had family members.
I have family members.
It's not that I hate theprofession, it's that we
shouldn't have over 50% of theCongress made up of basically
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paid weasels.
It just makes absolutely nosense at all.
But in an anti-politicalCongress, the Congress, the
House of Representatives, willbe made up of every profession
across the spectrumentrepreneurs, farmers,
engineers, male and female,black and white, brown, Arab,
Asian, it doesn't matter.
We'll have a very much morediverse Congress just because of
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the randomness of selection,but with the commonality that
each and every person selectedhas climbed their way to a level
of success which means theyhave shared values and that's
the most important thing.
Underlying all of this is theslide in the decadence and
depravity that this country ison an accelerating path of, with
AI coming online, and we've gotto do something to stem that
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and and.
That is anti-politicism.
And, by the way, the reason I'vechanged my mind about
anti-politics I used to saylet's do a statewide lottery,
the same way for the Senate, butI've changed my mind to the
senators should be selected bytheir state houses, which means
at the state level there's goingto be politics, but at the
state level they can do muchless harm than at the federal
level, because they can't printmoney.
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And if you can't print money,you can only spend what you
collect.
And if you can only spend whatyou collect, that puts a severe
limit on how stupid governmentcan be.
It's the very the federalgovernment has a printing press
that makes it dangerous, whichmeans also, I believe, in the
end of the Federal Reserve, butthat's another discussion for
another day.
We do not need one, even in amodern economy, but I'm not
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going there today.
So, having said that, it wouldeliminate this entire.
So the reason for that I anywaywent back to have the senators
selected by the states is sothat they're more answerable to
their individual states, and soit's more, we should get a more
experienced and seasoned groupof people in the Senate.
And, by the way, all terms in ananti-political world, including
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the one selected by the one anddone, there's no two-term
serving, it's one term Of fouryears in the House and Senate.
You're done.
Also, the president four years,one and done.
Everything is one and done.
Now there's more details, andthere's details on how the
president is selected, which isnot by direct election, it's by.
Well, it's done by.
You'll understand it when youread a radical reset.
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It's a better system.
It takes not some of the moneyout of politics, it takes all of
the money out of politics, andby taking the political parties
out of the federal governmentaltogether, what it does is it
means that we get people.
We have an elite at the highestlevel of people who are the
people that are pulling the cartand know better than to do
stupid things Now at the statelevel, if they want to
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experiment and see if they caninvent a welfare system that
actually works and one of thestates actually does it and
other states want to copy it, byall means.
Another part of antipolitism isthat we're going to kill the
income tax and repeal the incometax altogether.
It never existed from thebeginning In a much smaller
federal government.
We just won't need it.
There are plenty of other waysfor the federal government to
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raise money for itself and letthe states, if they want to have
an income tax at the state, letthem.
Then the people of the stateknow how much things cost and if
it's worth it to them to havean income tax and to pay a
certain percentage of theirincome for the state to provide
a benefit that's quality in anyparticular state, then God bless
them.
Do it Again.
They can't print money.
Why not?
Okay, as long as you're payingthe bills, go ahead.
But then when you make it, itfucks up, which all central
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control usually does.
Let's just say it always doesup to this point, so let's just
pretend that it continues thatway and all this experimentation
turns for naught.
Well fine, they just haven'tdamaged the whole country doing
it.
But at the same time, it alsoallows laboratories.
All the states becomelaboratories of experimentation
for things like better educationthat other states can copy.
But also remember that ourstates are like 50 little
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countries with differentdemographics.
So even if they do welfareprograms in all 50 states, if
that's what happens, great, butthere will be custom design for
the demographic and populationof that state, which is much
smaller than a whole nation,which means it has a better
chance of working.
Okay, and I could go through allthe different issues and I'm
tempted to do it, but really inrelation to what's going on
today in today's podcast, so wedon't go on forever, what's
going on in Texas simplywouldn't happen.
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There'd be no discussion,There'd be no gerrymandered
districts, There'd be no wastingof the time of state
legislatures who ought to bespending their time doing things
like improving the education ofthe children of their state,
let's say, is just one exampleor doing a better job in the
prison system or with lawenforcement, whatever it might
be.
Wasting their time on politicalcrap like this, Okay, it also
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will get rid of the politicalhacks that are doing it.
Okay Now, yes, at the statelevel, there will still be
politics.
Yes, at the state level, therewill still be elections, but
much less money, much lessinvolved and also much closer to
the people.
So if the guy next door is yourstate representative, as is
commonly the case, and you seesuddenly his lifestyle changing
from the better, that's a prettyclear sign that something
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corrupt is going on and he'sgoing to get caught.
It's much more difficult tohide corruption at the state
level as well, just becauseyou're so much closer to the
people that are voting for youin the first place and your
secrets.
It's like living in a smalltown the smaller the population,
the more likely it is yoursecrets are going to come out.
It's like when you live in asmall town and you're cheating
on your spouse unless you're anidiot, you don't do it in the
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same small town.
Okay, but, by the way, I'm notsuggesting anybody cheat on
their spouse.
I'm just saying that youbasically don't make mischief at
home because it's going to getcaught.
You know, the best suggestionis don't cheat on your spouse.
Let me be very clear about that.
But having said that, even ifyou were a cheater, you wouldn't
do it at home.
And so if you're going to steal, it's very difficult to steal
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at home because the idiot nextdoor knows what's going on.
Okay, so anyway, I think that'swhere I'll stop it.
This is why anti-politism makessense.
This is why we have to get ridof these elections.
This is why we have democracy.
Is mob rule.
Anti-politism is a return to arepublic run by an elite that's
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an elite of merit and open toanybody who wants to work hard
and put their nose to thegrindstone and achieve.
Then they can become part ofthe elite and part of good,
solid, responsible.
And when I say one term, it'sone and done.
You go, you serve and you'redone.
By the way, it's also apart-time job.
Just one last in ananti-political world, going to
the federal Congress would be apart-time job.
Just one last thing In ananti-political world, going to
the federal Congress would be apart-time job, because the
federal government A would bemuch smaller.
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But, most importantly, today infact, check me on this guys,
Look it up, Google it, Be myguest or whatever search engine
you prefer what percentage oftime do Congress people spend
raising money, as opposed tolegislating, and you will find
out that they spend 80 to 90percent of their time raising
money, because to run forCongress today means that you
need to raise around 15 to 20million dollars if you expect to
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win in a major political partyand to run for Senate, you have
to raise that much more,depending on the size of your
state.
And you know what that's justgoing to breed corruption.
All we have now is legalizedcorruption.
That's what federal financelaws are, and if you really
understand them, whenever anyparty's in power and they pass
campaign reform, they alwaysreform it in their favor to
manipulate the system their way.
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I'm saying we get rid of italtogether no money at the
federal level.
So when you go to serve inCongress, since you're not
spending 80 to 90% of your timeraising money, you're only
spending 10% of the timeotherwise, which means you don't
have to make it a full-time job.
You come to Washington to passa budget every year and then you
go home, unless there's anational emergency, and while
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you're in Washington and doingthe budget, which is the primary
responsibility that they neverachieved I don't think it's been
achieved since the 90s, thelast time they actually passed
the budget which is the onething the Congress should do,
their one job.
They can't really do it.
Their one most important job,their one ongoing job.
Yes, they declare war.
That's what I mean by nationalemergencies.
Yes, there might be a hurricaneand we might have to call
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Congress into session to sendsome federal aid to that state,
and so on and so forth.
But apart from theseemergencies, okay, you would
basically be at home doing yourregular job.
So when you go to Washington toserve, you would be paid per
diem, whatever it is that youearned the previous year before
you were selected for Congress.
So if you made $100,000 a year,you'd get roughly $300 a day
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for every day you're serving inCongress, and I just picked that
number out of the air becauseit's a round number.
I don't even know if that's inthe top third anymore, but
whatever it is, you get onethree hundred and sixty fifth of
it per diem for every dayyou're in Washington.
The government will pay yourairfare coach, by the way, to
and from commercial.
Now if you own your own plane,you have to be randomly selected
to fly your own plane, forChrist's sake.
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And if you want to upgrade yourticket, be my guest.
But it's not on the taxpayer'sdime.
Taxpayers done Otherwise.
You're flown, coached toWashington DC.
While you're serving, Whileyou're there, you'll be put up
in.
Basically, I say, take one ofthe federal buildings that will
empty out, convert it and turnit into an apartment complex of
exceptionally high security,which is where everybody stays
when they're in town working inCongress, and they just serve
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their four-year term and they'redone.
And once they're done, they cannever be reselected and that's
the end of it.
It converts ambition to duty.
It becomes a duty.
You might be called upon to doyour duty.
Therefore, you should keep upon events and what's going on in
the world.
People who have achievedsomething do it.
Naturally.
You don't have to tell them todo it.
We want our best and brightestto be the ones who are in charge
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If you're not playing the gameand you're essentially a
parasite collecting from thestate when you don't pay in,
what are you doing?
Voting for how much you take?
You cannot allow a mosquito tovote for how much blood they
suck.
Sorry, I know that's an uglyanalogy, but it's true.
And that's the end of thepodcast.
Today, and I think I've made mypoint.
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We don't need no stinkinggerrymandering.
We don't need no stinkingredrawing of districts.
We just need antipolitism.
Again, let me remind you topick up a copy of A Radical
Reset the Manifesto ofAntipolitism.
It's available to you inpaperback, Kindle and hardcover
at Amazon.
Please share this podcast withfriends, neighbors and the like.
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Please get interested and, ifyou would like to let me just
throw this out there, volunteerand work with me.
There are ways to reach me.
You'll find them wherever it isthat you're listening to this.
Reach out, contact me and getinvolved, because we have a
movement to build and a world tochange and a country to save.
God bless you, God bless yourfamily, God bless America.
Have a beautiful day.
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