A Modest Proposal For Fixing America’s Broken Election System

In his “A Modest Proposal,” Jonathan Swift sarcastically proposed that Ireland swallow its children to solve its most pressing problem.

Here I sincerely propose the United States swallow its elections to solve its most pressing problem.

I’m a results-oriented guy. Which means at some point? The fetishization of process should be ended — if the results of the process are awful.

And so it is with the process of governance in the United States.

The U.S. has long had varyingly-tainted-but-basically-free elections. And those elected officials have for long enacted laws and policies.

Well, how’s it going?

If you respond with anything other than “awful?” You are either not paying attention — or are allowing the process of patriotism to get in the way of your recognition of reality.

If you’re honest (with yourself)? You can’t come to any other conclusion than the U..S is broke and broken.

Here’s the chief reason why: Our governments are HUGE. Federal, state and local — all MUCH larger than they need be.

And here’s the kicker: Big Business owns and operates ALL of them. They are ALL corrupt puppets of Big Biz.

And we’ve had elections and voted for all of this.

Doubt me about the states and local governments? Check out the surveillance regimes and attending data center deployments being jammed down our throats all over the country.

Now let’s peruse Q2 2026 federal lobbying numbers. Graciously compiled last Tuesday by the folks at Politico Influence.

The numbers are, as always, staggering. The top 20 lobby shops in Q2 2026 took in $252.4 million. A QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLARS.

Just for straight lobbying. Just for the top 20 straight lobbying shops. Just for three months.