Dear American: No One in Government Represents You
Paul Craig Roberts
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, Tucker Carlson, Candice Owens, and a few others who have access to media exposure, including myself, agree that Washington does not represent the American people. Neither do the state or local governments. Conservatives used to claim that the closer government is to you, the better it represented you, but that is not my experience.
Marjorie Taylor Greene says, correctly, that you cannot go against a party position or they will come after you. In other words, leadership within the parties to bring change cannot arise. The money interests that finance the elections are the ones that benefit from government. https://reason.com/podcast/2026/06/29/marjorie-taylor-greene-youre-not-being-represented/?mc_eid=b0a2efcaec&utm_source=Reason+Magazine&utm_campaign=20a7ecd1ea-reason_brand|new_at_reason|2026_06_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_31d7ef7f57-20a7ecd1ea-589981256
She says it would be possible to beat the system, but it “requires the American people fully getting engaged. And the American people just aren’t fully engaged.”
She is correct. I have been trying since 1975 when I entered the Congressional staff to get Americans involved before the net closed over them. I have not been very successful.
My main success was as Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury getting the Reagan reduction in tax rates passed and the income tax brackets adjusted for inflation in order to prevent inflation from pushing nominal incomes into higher tax brackets. I was able to do this because this was the task I was assigned by President Reagan, and I had tremendous support from President Reagan and Treasury Secretary Don Reagan, from members of both parties in the House and Senate, and from Bob Bartley, the editor of the Wall Street Journal. If I had not succeeded, every American taxpayer today would be in the top 50% bracket financing with their work and income America’s wars for the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel and the Democrats’ agenda of a multicultural America.
I went into a powerful presidential appointment after serving in House and Senate, both committee and personal staffs, after being an editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, after having been educated at Georgia Tech, University of Virginia, University of California, Berkeley, and Oxford University where I experienced every view of politics and economics. Additionally, my agenda was change, not a government career, and therefore I was willing to fight.
The establishment, of course, has done everything possible to belittle the achievement in order to prevent wildcat operators again disturbing the status quo.
( AI Overview definition of wildcat operator in politics: “In politics, a wildcat operator, or “wildcatter,” refers to a rogue, independent political actor or strategist who operates outside the control, funding, and strategy of established major political parties or conventional organizations.”)
Today in America there are no such people with the necessary support to bring any change not approved by the controlling interest groups. As President Trump has demonstrated, real change in America is no longer possible within the existing party confines.
The party confines are changing. Democrats refreshed with immigrant-invaders from Washington’s wars for Israel in the Middle East are having their party’s complexion changed. Republican MAGA voters, disappointed with Trump’s forsaken promise of “no more wars,” are losing enthusiasm.
These developments do not mean that the outcome will be good for Americans. As immigrant-invaders are now a significant percentage of the population, they will be legalized, not deported, by both parties competing for their support. Trump’s failure will demoralize Americans and undermine belief that America can be restored.
The problem for white ethnic Western Civilization is that it is demonized beyond repair, has lost its self-belief, and cannot be resurrected even if the people were aware without massive violence of which they do not seem capable, having been so brainwashed for so long as to now accept their “guilt.”