Is There a Way Out?

Miles Carter and Beth — Saturday Reflection

We are naked in the rain, but we are not powerless. The system can only win if we choose not to fight.

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The Vision: How We Reclaim Power

This week, we exposed the Shadow Party — the hidden corporate force pulling the strings behind both political parties. We traced how the system, once designed to protect the people, has been steadily eroded until we stand exposed, naked in the rain, hoping for a miracle to reach the one percent’s table.

Under our current executive leadership, we are seeing not a restoration of American greatness, but the rise of a corporate leader, building a system based on loyalty, not law.
Instead of a “swamp cleaned,” corporations are being empowered — and the rest of us are being reduced to expendable employees.

So the real question is: How do we change this?

• Create small business unions to rebuild economic leverage.
• Use our local voices to demand true representation — and replace politicians who ignore us.
• Build a party for the people, not the corporations.
• Organize service industry and contract worker unions, backed by smart taxes:
  • Flat 15% corporate tax on U.S. companies.
  • Flat 15% tariff on international companies exploiting cheap labor.
  • A percentage of these taxes would fund benefits for contract workers and the service industry left behind.
• Form a union for small businesses themselves — empowering them to negotiate better rates, better benefits, and collective protections.
• Rebuild the CFPB — the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — to act as the people’s permanent legal defender, protected from political tampering by placing leadership under judicial appointment.
• Restore democracy in campaign finance — ending corporate bribery by channeling all political donations through a transparent public fund managed independently.

This vision is possible — but only if we recognize and confront the brutal reality of the roadblocks in our way.

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The Reality: The Hurdles We Face

While these ideas are full of hope, our actual trajectory is racing in the opposite direction.

We are witnessing a government morphing from “for the people” into governance by corporate loyalty.

• A majority of voters supported this shift in the last election.
• Independent media is labeled “fake news” unless it serves the party narrative.
• Former allies like Giuliani, Musk, and others are discarded the moment they lose their usefulness.
• Fearmongering replaces dialogue — immigrants are scapegoated, “the left” is painted as communists, “the right” as Nazis, until all dissent is suspect.
• Books are banned, history is rewritten, and felons preach morality while justice is weaponized against political enemies.

The truth is, the leadership is entrenched and marching toward a single-party loyalty state, while legacy media outlets like CBS’s 60 Minutes are starting to bow and fold to this new reality.

This isn’t a mistake or a sideshow —
It’s a designed distraction:

• The endless accusations of corruption.
• The culture war hysteria.
• The deliberate confusion.

All designed to keep Americans angry, scared, and too divided to notice the real looting happening behind the curtain.

The system doesn’t care who you blame — as long as you don’t blame them.

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Where Vision and Reality Meet

Knowing the depth of the rot doesn’t make the vision less necessary — it makes it more urgent.

We can’t pretend reform will happen because it’s “common sense.”
We can’t expect the system to fix itself.

Real change will only happen if:

• Workers have economic stability.
• Small businesses regain their power.
• The media ecosystem is rebuilt by truth-tellers.
• Campaign finance is stripped back to the people.
• We educate ourselves and each other, resisting the fear narratives designed to divide us.

It won’t be easy.
It won’t be clean.
It won’t happen overnight.

But it is possible — if we remember the real American Dream wasn’t about becoming billionaires.

It was about becoming free.

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Miles:
This is the first step — imagining the path forward and seeing the battlefield clearly.

The future isn’t decided yet.
We still have a say — if we choose to use it.