Our agenda for reform and renewal is comprehensive, ambitious, but doable.

But first America’s electoral system has to get out of jail and pass ‘Go’.

We believe that setting a new standard across the board using the candidate contract is a game-changer.  It eliminates confusion, obfuscation, ambiguity, manipulation, and outright deceit.  Actually, it doesn’t eliminate deceit but puts a giant TOXIC WASTE sign over it.  Voters can decide for themselves if they want to swallow the poison.

We have our differences with Bernie Sanders on some important issues, all revolving around America’s militarism and support for terrorism.  But credit where credit is due:  This courageous man has fingered the toxicity and moral bankruptcy of an economy and political system which serves the rich and powerful elite at the expense of everyone else.

Bernie’s bold and no-nonsense campaign has excited millions of people and woken up America to the economic injustice and crass exploitation it is being subjected to.

His patriotism and honesty has been rewarded with media vilification and a ruthless sabotage of his campaign by the press in a sinister alliance with the Democratic Party.

No one knows yet how it will end.  But one thing we do know is that Bernie’s hard work and the momentum he has generated cannot go to waste.

We at NEAR Foundation and our partners at CFAR 2018 and CFAR 2020 have been making a simple but critical point all along.  It’s not some new discovery, or some dark secret which has been unearthed from the national archives.  In fact, the point we have been making is prominently featured in every high school civics book as long as America has had civics texts.

The laws of the United States of America are made by Congress!

To get right to the point, if whatever Bernie has created, whether it be a revolution or just some timely consciousness raising, if the energy and insights he has generated are to continue and be manifested in any constructive fashion, regardless of how the presidential election turns out, we should focus all that “Feel the Bern” enthusiasm on getting the corporate lackeys and puppets of the plutocracy out of Congress, replacing them with some truly independent-minded, progressive candidates who are committed to representing the needs of all Americans, not just the privileged few.

The custom version of the candidate contract we’ve been pushing all along, in the form of the Contract For American Renewal which is being promoted at this site, is the perfect instrument for some game-changing electoral politics.

Are the campaigners for true representative democracy up to the task?

What hope is there?

Regime change in Congress!  Without congressional leadership, there’s no hope for turning things around.

Back in 2016, Bernie Sanders lit a fire under the American people.  They’re tired of getting screwed and they were finally trying to do something about it.

But nothing has changed, except to get worse.  We’ve saw it and still see it unfold in poll after poll.  People are mad as hell!

Of course, it’s a whole new game now.  Bernie has sold out.  So we’re looking at mavericks like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Cornell West to provide some real leadership.

But like it says again on this excellent site — thanks, John, for your hard work — nothing will get done without regime change in Congress.  We’ve been saying it all along for some time.  Until we get the crooks and liars out of the House and Senate, we can expect nothing but more gridlock, cage fighting, government shutdowns, bickering, and dysfunction.  And I’ll tell you what . . .

If either RFK Jr or Dr. West gets elected with this current bunch in Congress, it’ll be worse than ever!

So, you wonderful activists out there.  If you want to really do something for either Cornell, Bobby, or Tulsi (if she runs), and more importantly for this country, get behind this strategy.

No contract!  No vote!

Let’s flush the whole bunch out in November 2024.  Hopefully the stench will clear by the time some progressives arrive and get to work representing every American citizen, and making a genuine “people’s agenda” the law of the land.