Not left.
Not right.
Just done waiting.

A monthly supply of insulin that costs $98 in Canada costs $326 in the United States. The same brand. The same dosage. The same manufacturer. The difference is that in most countries, governments negotiate drug prices. In the US, federal law has historically prohibited Medicare from negotiating drug prices — a policy that costs Americans hundreds of billions of dollars per year.

This is not a partisan issue. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have both railed against pharmaceutical pricing. Voters on both sides consistently rank drug costs as a top concern. What's missing is the transparency to understand exactly who is benefiting from the current system — and why it hasn't changed.

In 2023, a decorated military whistleblower testified under oath before Congress that the U.S. government possesses non-human craft and biological remains. In 2024, the Pentagon released videos of unidentified objects performing maneuvers that defy known physics. Congress has passed multiple bipartisan UAP transparency bills — and agencies have repeatedly slow-walked compliance.

Whether you believe in little green men or not, the core issue is simple: the government is classifying information from the public that Congress has legally demanded be released. That's an accountability issue — and it's got support from Republicans, Democrats, and everyone who's ever looked up at the sky and wondered.

The US national debt is over $36 trillion. Congress regularly passes spending bills that run thousands of pages long — released hours before a vote, unread by most members who vote on them. Earmarks, riders, and line items get buried in bills named things like the "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act."

The ask isn't ideological. Conservatives who want smaller government and progressives who want accountable government both agree on one thing: the public deserves to know exactly how their money is being spent, by whom, and why. Demanding line-item transparency isn't left or right — it's just math.

Every so often it's worth zooming out and asking a simple question: why are Americans paying more, waiting longer, and getting less than people in comparable countries? This isn't about ideology. It's about asking why.

The average American works for decades and then retires. Members of Congress can serve indefinitely — accumulating power, seniority, and donor relationships for 30, 40, even 50 years. There are currently members of Congress who have been in office since before the internet existed.

Polls consistently show over 80% of both Republican and Democrat voters support term limits. Yet Congress has repeatedly blocked term limit legislation. Why? Because the people who would lose power are the same people voting on whether to give it up.

The United States has a minimum age to run for office — 25 for the House, 30 for the Senate, 35 for President. But no maximum. The average age of a US Senator is 65. Several sitting members are in their 80s and have shown visible signs of cognitive decline on camera.

Most professions have mandatory retirement ages — airline pilots must retire at 65, federal judges face retirement incentives, military officers have maximum age limits. The question isn't partisan — it's practical. Should the people making decisions about AI, social media, and the next 50 years of America be the same people who need help operating a smartphone?

Members of Congress regularly trade stocks in companies they regulate, oversee, and pass legislation about. Nancy Pelosi's husband made millions on tech stocks while she chaired committees overseeing tech companies. Republican members have done the same with defense stocks, pharmaceutical companies, and energy firms.

In any other profession this would be called insider trading. In Congress it's called Tuesday. The STOCK Act was passed in 2012 to address this — but enforcement has been minimal and violations result in fines as low as $200. Both parties benefit. Neither wants to fix it.

Congress regularly passes spending bills that are thousands of pages long — released hours before a vote, unread by most members who vote on them. The Affordable Care Act was 2,700 pages. The Omnibus spending bills routinely exceed 4,000 pages. Nancy Pelosi famously said "we have to pass the bill to find out what's in it."

This isn't partisan — it's absurd. No reasonable person on the left or right thinks elected officials should vote on legislation they haven't read. Hidden earmarks, special interest giveaways, and unconstitutional provisions get buried in bills nobody reads. A simple requirement: 72 hours minimum before any vote. Both sides agree. Nobody acts.

Every app you download, every website you visit, every search you make is being collected, sold, and used to build a profile of you — without meaningful consent. The US is one of the only developed nations without a comprehensive federal data privacy law.

The EU passed GDPR in 2018. California passed its own law. The rest of America is still waiting for federal protection. Your location data, health searches, political beliefs, and financial behavior are being sold to advertisers, data brokers, and potentially foreign governments. Conservative or liberal — your data doesn't care who you voted for.

Teen depression, anxiety, and suicide rates have skyrocketed since 2012 — the year smartphone use became widespread among teenagers. The US Surgeon General has called social media a public health crisis for kids. Instagram's own internal research showed it made body image issues worse for teenage girls — and they published it anyway.

This is one of the rare issues where Ted Cruz and AOC have sat at the same table and agreed. Parents on both sides are watching their kids disappear into their phones and seeing the consequences. The question isn't whether to act — it's why nobody has yet.

Americans pay an estimated $65 billion per year in junk fees — hidden charges tacked on at the end of purchases that have nothing to do with the actual product or service. Concert tickets that cost $40 end up being $80 after fees. Hotel rooms add "resort fees" for amenities you never use. Airlines charge for bags, seats, boarding order, and printing your ticket.

The Biden administration cracked down on junk fees. The Trump administration has also called them out. This is genuinely one of the most bipartisan consumer issues in America — nobody likes being surprised by a $15 "convenience fee" for the inconvenience of buying something. Demand price transparency. Demand what you see is what you pay.

The American Society of Civil Engineers gives US drinking water infrastructure a C- grade. An estimated 6–10 billion gallons of treated water are lost daily through leaking pipes. Meanwhile, countries like Germany and the Netherlands replace aging pipes on a rolling 50-year cycle. The US average pipe age is over 45 years — and rising.

The bipartisan angle: Rural Republican communities are just as affected as urban Democratic ones. This isn't about which party builds pipes better. It's about demanding that the infrastructure bill money — which passed with bipartisan support — actually shows up in your town.