After the previous letter, it took me seven days to find time to write another. This one’s a request to orient government toward political reform.

Dear President Obama,

I’ve been putting this under the subject “civil rights”. Do you know there’s not even have a “political reform” subject on the whitehouse.gov/contact form?

You say you want to transform politics, make it civil, make it work. But your site isn’t even organized for people to message you about it. This is NOT a criticism. It’s an observation. Our culture is not organized to fix its political problems.

Do you want to know the real problem with our political system? It’s the system itself. It was never designed to either truly represent people, nor for politicians to be accountable, nor to handle the problems caused by the wealthy or by political parties.

Currently, everyone in America is doing exactly what they think they should be doing with regard to politics. Some are lobbying. Some are fighting for control or using money to steal the people’s power. Many are name-calling or manipulating emotions. Many are apathetic or cynical. Given our political system, those are all appropriate!

We, the people, can’t effectively wield our power. So special interests step up to wield it. The parties have taken over.

It’s actually pretty easy to fix it. The hard part is getting through the cynicism. To start, anticipate change. Orient the government toward political reform. And call me.

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