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?