What we have now isn’t working. Citizens have long abandoned civic participation in droves. We’ve left power-thirsty hegemons alone to vie for power in Washington, and they’ve sufficed to continually harm the American people for their own gain. We have a class of greedy elite outside the power of law, using the democracy nobody’s happy with as justification for tightening their stranglehold. And this is supposed to be normal?

We need a complete restart. With power comes responsibility. There needs to be a sensible party whose ethos reflects the care which such power requires. The old two parties need to be recognized for the public threats that they are. Third party solutions need to be more than one-issue backwater affairs that recycle each other’s voter base. We need to overcome harmful ideologue zealotry as a country, from both sides, and come together to espouse political realism. We need to use philosophy – long pushed out of American politics – to understand how to govern well, just as business school had business ethics.

All in all, what we’ve been trying hasn’t worked at all. No one disagrees. America continues to spiral out of control, and extremists are seizing the helm. It’s time for a new solution, a radical form of propriety, an extreme moderation to get the job done. The writing on the wall is clear: we need something drastically new to bring about the old ways that work. The only thing left to ask is, are you daring enough to be a trailblazer?

The numbers are on our side. The only thing that will stop us is ourselves.