An education system that values conformity over creativity will not change in two years. A health-care system that is populated by a whole class of people whose job is to say “no” (insurance companies) will not become more patient oriented in two years. A foreign policy that is based on the false premise that America has never lost a war will not address reality overnight.
Fixing our political system so that it is capable of providing us with better government requires changes in five essential areas:
•We need candidates for public office who are much more thoughtful and committed to the public good than we currently have.
•We need a media that accurately portrays who our candidates are and gives equal attention to candidates who do not come from dynasties, wealth, or entrenched bases of power.
•We need schools that value the common good; that recognize that our country can be governed much better; that see that their primary role is to help students learn critical thinking skills and apply them for the benefit of society as a whole.
•We need to improve the current body politic. Citizens need to see meaningful reasons to vote. They need to learn how to engage in thoughtful dialogue with politicians, asking pertinent questions and not accepting simple slogans as the basis for policy.
•We need structural change in our government.
I will expand on these topics in depth in Part 2, but first I want to talk about how I came to run for Congress in Missouri’s Second District, and how my experience opened my eyes to what we need to do to fix our political system.
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