For years, we were told that conservatism meant getting government out of business. But what happens when business takes over government?
Today, the line between corporate power and public power is so thin it’s nearly invisible. This isn’t just a policy failure—it’s a betrayal of the American promise. Despite popular mythology, the Founders weren’t building a nation to glorify capitalism. They were trying to protect people from it.
The Boston Tea Party wasn’t about taxes alone. It was a rebellion against the East India Company, a massive corporate monopoly backed by the British Crown. Our revolution began as a revolt against that merger of profit and political control. Early Americans understood that corporations, when left unchecked, could threaten liberty just as much as kings. That’s why states originally required corporations to serve the public good, operate within limited charters, and remain locally accountable.
We’ve abandoned those values.
The Republican Party traded principle for profit, then traded its spine for a strongman. The Democrats, once champions of working people, now serve donors and global capital—and seem ready to sell their soul to a strongman of their own. What’s left is a hollow, fake populism and policies shaped by lobbyists.
That’s not conservatism.
That’s not democracy.
That’s controlled decline, managed from the top.
Real conservatism should be about sustainability—not just environmental, but economic and social. It should protect systems that endure because they are just, balanced, and rooted in community. It should care about stable institutions, shared responsibility, and future generations.
What we have instead is deregulated chaos for the poor and endless privilege for the powerful. Whole communities are gutted while corporations enjoy tax loopholes and write their own rules. Wages stagnate. Schools close. Hospitals vanish. Meanwhile, stock buybacks soar.
This isn’t freedom.
It’s corporate feudalism wearing patriotic colors.
I care about tradition. I care about structure.
But tradition without integrity is theater.
Structure without consent is tyranny.
I no longer give my consent to this government—not because I reject America, but because I believe in what it was supposed to be. I believe in the Constitution as a living agreement. I believe “We the People” meant something real.
But right now, that promise is being broken.
The Declaration of Independence reads:
“Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive… it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.”
We don’t need to burn it all down. But we do need to begin again.
We need a new declaration.
One that says:
We reject corporate rule.
We reject legalized bribery.
We reject a government that treats profit as sacred and people as disposable.
We still believe in community.
We still believe in the commons.
We still believe in each other.
And we’re not going anywhere.