Conservatives used to claim that the closer government is to you, the better it represented you, but that is not my experience. 

Marjorie Taylor Greene says, correctly, that you cannot go against a party position or they will come after you.  In other words, leadership within the parties to bring change cannot arise.  The money interests that finance the elections are the ones that benefit from government. https://reason.com/podcast/2026/06/29/marjorie-taylor-greene-youre-not-being-represented/?mc_eid=b0a2efcaec&utm_source=Reason+Magazine&utm_campaign=20a7ecd1ea-reason_brand|new_at_reason|2026_06_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_31d7ef7f57-20a7ecd1ea-589981256 

She says it would be possible to beat the system, but it "requires the American people fully getting engaged. And the American people just aren't fully engaged."

She is correct.  I have been trying since 1975 when I entered the Congressional staff to get Americans involved before the net closed over them.  I have not been very successful.  

My main success was as Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury getting the Reagan reduction in tax rates passed and the income tax brackets adjusted for inflation in order to prevent inflation from pushing nominal incomes into higher tax brackets.  I was able to do this because this was the task I was assigned by President Reagan, and I had tremendous support from President Reagan and Treasury Secretary Don Reagan, from members of both parties in the House and Senate, and from Bob Bartley, the editor of the Wall Street Journal. If I had not succeeded, every American taxpayer today would be in the top 50% bracket financing with their work and income America's wars for the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel and the Democrats' agenda of a multicultural America.

I went into a powerful presidential appointment after serving in House and Senate, both committee and personal staffs, after being an editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, after having been educated at Georgia Tech, University of Virginia, University of California, Berkeley, and Oxford University where I experienced every view of politics and economics. Additionally, my agenda was change, not a government career, and therefore I was willing to fight.

The establishment, of course, has done everything possible to belittle the achievement in order to prevent wildcat operators again disturbing the status quo.