And how would you protect the credibility of elections while making it easier for people to compare candidates of their actual ideas?

Okay, yeah, this is why we need multiple and mutually reinforcing solutions.

Eliminating re-election is a great first step, but it's not the first thing that we need to do.

Now, why do we have the situation that we do? Why do we have the polarization that we do? Why do we have a country that is so viciously afflicted with emotions like hate and anger? And, you know, such vicious division in our country.

Well, this is all by design.

As one political consultant, famous consultant said in a recent interview.

hate and anger are the two most motivating things in politics.

Did we get this point where people can look at the same event and form a way with a completely different understanding of what happened? What responsibility does journalists, media organisations, political leaders and audiences each have in rebuilding this church? And how can we encourage accountability in journalism without allowing calls that we form to become a way of silencing criticism?

When you talk about political reform, what do you believe is the biggest problem with the way politics currently work? Well,

that's really the heart of it all.

What is the fundamental problem? The commonality between the problems that people have with their politics and their government.

And it comes down to something very human.

We humans, we have one, we have a number of weaknesses, but probably our greatest weakness is the ease with which We form addictions.

People get addicted to drugs.

They can get addicted to alcohol.

Is corruption primarily a political problem or cultural problem or a problem created by the incentive within

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Profession also gave me the opportunity to, you know, live many years in Japan, uh, and then I spent time in China and South America.

Of course, I'm originally from the United States.

But aside from living in those countries, I also made the tremendous effort and real effort to learn languages and to speak them well.

And that gave me the opportunity to talk to a whole variety of people in a lot of different walks of life, you know, um, and, and get many, many points of view, uh, from people regardless of their profession or their age.

And the thing that struck me most of all was the commonality that, uh, that I, I found.

And when I talk about commonality, I talk about, first of all, people everywhere, uh, whether, you know, uh, they're, they're from Asia or South America or North America or Europe, everybody wants, uh, you know, freedom and prosperity.

What would you tell them?

perhaps elaborate more on the party's platform and what you're aiming to achieve?

Sure.

Let me give you just a little bit of how this inspiration came about.

When it comes to work experience, I just want to give a very brief summary.

I have worked some very humble jobs in my life as a ranch hand on a cattle ranch.

I've worked as a gardener.

I've worked as a dishwasher.

What is your how do you read the temperature when you look at primaries in this instance in how political parties try to garner support inside this big tent, as you mentioned?

How have these experiences shaped your understanding of politics, freedom, and what people around the world have in common?

Well, I think the important thing to emphasize here is that, um, as you mentioned, you know, I've lived in these different countries, but I learned the languages and got, uh, quite fluent, in fact, very fluent in, in, you know, Japanese, Spanish, uh, Chinese, and then of course, uh, English, my native language.

And that has given me the opportunity to talk to a wide cross-section of people in these different countries.

And, uh, inevitably, we would start talking about, um, things that affect us all, politics and, and government.

And, and the thing that was most interesting was the amount of commonality that I found across the different countries, cultures, regardless of the language or, or the, the country's history.

And the, some of the commonality that I want to emphasize is, number one, that people everywhere want to live, um, you know, want, want freedom and prosperity.

Number two, there's m- worldwide frustration [chuckles] with, that, uh, people have when it comes to their, their government and their, the politics within their country.

What do you believe have contributed to the, uh, declining public trust in the media, and that reforms, uh, could help restore it? What reforms in particular could help restore it?

Now, the question is, what do you believe America needs to do differently to create more opportunities for entrepreneurs, workers and future generations?

Well, what we want is we want an opportunity, rich, prosperous economy.

Now, what's the problem that we have now? Well, the first thing that we must recognize is that the world's economy, not only America, but the world's economy is all based on energy.

Without energy, everything stops.

And so what is the source of our energy now? Well, it's fossil fuels.

Now, what's the problem with fossil fuels? Number one, it's a non-renewable resource, which means every year, There are fewer of them, and that's not a formula for prosperity when you have more and more people worldwide competing for fewer and fewer resources.

Number two is that these fossil fuels are controlled by large corporations, by royal families, by dictators, and they have an inherent interest in limiting the supply to keep the price up.

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What did living outside the American political bubble teach you about what people actually want from their societies?

Well, that's a key question because when we talk about the United States and we talk about China and we talk about Japan, we're talking about four very different cultures, different forms of government, different ways of thinking.

I mean, literally different ways of thinking.

When you speak or you come to speak other people's languages, you really understand that people formulate ideas differently.

But what has struck me over all the years is, let me just say that I've had the opportunity to talk with different people around the world about things like government and the politics.

And the thing that struck me most of all were two things.

Number one, the commonality that we all share.

They're going to do where the money goes, and we have monetized it.

So now let's talk about, if we are talking about reform the media, if we're talking about a more robust media solution, making journalism more robust, what does an ideal journalism situation look like for you?

Okay, well, let's talk about news organizations, journalism in general, and how it has changed over the years, because I think it's important to understand how we got to where we are now.

Okay, number one, you have to remember that in the past, to start, let's say, a newspaper was a very difficult thing to do.

You had to have printing presses, you had to have reporters, You had a way to distribute the newspapers.

You had to have an advertising department.

It was a huge endeavor to start a newspaper or a news channel or a radio channel or radio news channel.

But now anybody with a laptop and a webpage can start a quote unquote news site.

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How did that journey eventually lead you to creating the Solutions Party?

Well, I will just tell you, as you mentioned, I've had a wonderful and very interesting life.

I've had the opportunity to live And in different countries, learned different languages and immersed myself in different cultures.

And that includes, as you mentioned, Japan, where I lived almost 20 years.

And then China, communist China for a bit.

And then mainly over the last 20 years in South America.

And during this time in all these different countries, including my own, the United States, I've had the opportunity to talk with a lot of people.

Eliminating political re-election.

If that's true, why is society so often deeply divided?

Well, I'm going to tell you what all of these problems come down to.

It doesn't matter what country we're talking about, what political system we're talking about.

There's a very common problem that I have seen, and I will explain this.

Let me start by explaining this by talking a little bit about humans themselves.

Let's talk a little bit about humans themselves, in particular, the human brain.

Now, the human brain is a wonderful thing, but one of the human brain's greatest weaknesses is the ease with which it can form problems.

what end?

Thank you, Ted.

Well, my pleasure.

And so I th- I think that what I have proposed in, at solutionsparty.org is the way to make it impossible for somebody to get addicted to power is the way that you make it very difficult for somebody to get addicted to a medication.

Like for example, Okechukwu, if I were your doctor and I had to prescribe you a very addictive, uh, medication, well, the way to prescribe that to you but to minimize the possibility that you would get addicted to it is I would give you small doses spread apart.

And that's exactly how power has to be allocated, small doses spread apart.

Now, the other thing i- and so that's why we propose just one term.

You serve one term.

It, it seems like you wanted to say something.