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Honestly, I don’t know. It’s easy to identify the problem, which is that the government, because it has become so powerful, attracts the wrong kind of people. Our founding fathers said that the Constitution was written for a moral people, and in government you have anything but. Many, if not most of the high-ranking civilians I worked with were completely convinced of their superiority over the masses, that the rabble just needed to shut up and do what they were told. I had one, a nerdy, completely disagreeable guy who couldn’t get a date to save his life, say that the government should give him a woman because his intellect was so superior and so vital to the world that it was the least they could do. He wasn’t joking. When you’ve got people like that seeking money and power, you’re going to end up with the mess we’ve got.

I think we need to take away some of the excessive power concentrated in Washington. That means everybody is term-limited. No exceptions. No Executive Orders. The Constitution gave the legislature the power to make laws, not the president. Same with the massive, bloated, un-elected bureaucracy. In writing regulations, they have effectively become legislators. End that. Reduce the numbers of bureaucrats and disburse the agencies across the country. Enact a law that lobbyists can’t write legislation.

Massively cut the intelligence budget. Too much money and power is being wielded in secret with no accountability. Term limit people in key positions.

Electoral reform, of course. States should agree on a system for national elections that includes paper ballots, in-person voting, national voter ID, etc.

Somehow reform the party system. We have unelected partisans deciding our choices for office. I don’t have a specific solution, but the Rep-Dem uniparty isn’t working.