How to Get the Government to Step Their Game Up — For Us, Not Them
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I can’t remember the exact day, but in the late 90s, my uncle introduced me to Def Comedy Jam. And just a few episodes in, I was hooked. Watching standup that summer changed my entire frame of reference — especially with Dave Chappelle — with laughter, it opened my eyes to the meaning of perspective.
It’s even more true now. The way Chappelle’s material lands today, it just hits different. Maybe it’s because we’ve grown up, but I’ve come to understand the economy of words in a great bit — and how the best jokes speak to bigger truths.
It’s by far not one his most quotable, but I like Dave’s bit on spending a night at his “friend Timmy’s house”. When he returns home to his own more modest circumstances, he doesn't just feel disappointment — he urges his parents to "step their game up, everything at Timmy’s house works."
That punchline struck. Funny and real, it captured the gut feeling of realizing the system you trust is lagging behind what should be possible.
For many of us, that moment comes not in childhood, but in adulthood — when we realize that the government, like flawed parents, might not only be underperforming, but also under a system designed to serve itself.
Worse yet, it might not even be "our" government anymore — but a broken foster system growing larger off our obedience, labor, and silence.
So it seems, the Notorious B.I.G. was right: Mo’ Money doesn’t mean Mo’ Quality — its just Mo’ Problems.
Seeing Quality Breaks the Spell
Thankfully, some of us visit other “houses”. We get to see better-run systems and realize what quality actually looks like.
We read foreign studies that prioritize truth over profit. We see how smaller nations handling healthcare with transparency, lower costs, and higher trust.
We see people — from all political backgrounds — beginning to question centralized mandates and insist on informed consent.
And just like Dave walking back into his own home after visiting Timmy’s, we can’t help but notice,
Not Everything Here Works
Our healthcare system isn’t well.
Our policies are bloated and vague.
Our trust in authority has become transactional — not relational.
Even our food system reflects this rot — where industries lobby to legalize trace amounts of chemicals and additives banned in other countries, and calls it progress, while the actual quality drops lower every year.
Government officials fatten a bloated system to serve themselves, feigning competence as corporations mislead, sway, bribe, and manipulate public perception — all to maintain the illusion that government still exists to serve the people.
And maybe, just maybe, the quality of government has degraded much more than ever anticipated — left in the hands of profiteers and idiot sons, men who inherited power but not discipline, integrity or duty for standards it once demanded.
Seeing the Problem, Now What?
If we’re no longer children — and if we can’t trust our "parents" to guide us — then waiting for the system to fix itself is pointless.
We need new systems:
Systems of thought.
Systems of accountability.
Systems of personal wealth, knowledge, and resilience.
They don’t want you to grow up. They don’t want you to unplug, think critically, build wealth, or leave the foster house. They need you afraid. Confused. Dependent and Consuming.
Take public health, for example — it doesn’t even pretend anymore. The system is incentivized to maintain itself — not to heal you. Or as Calley Means put it: "a system incentivized to keep you sick."
Build Outside the Broken System
Start with your finances.
Start with one account. One mindset shift.
When you control your money, you control your choices. And when you control your choices, you’re no one’s dependent.
They’re getting paid — in money, power, and influence — to keep the foster house running.
That’s why we have:
vaccination schedules expanding faster than the studies that support them
food deserts in wealthy nations
regulators that hop between government and Big Pharma like it’s a game of musical chairs.
So What Can We Do?
Look to where quality has fallen the most. If change is going to happen, it must start from the outside in:
1. Demand transparency in healthcare, food policy, and pharmaceutical regulation.
Agencies like the FDA, CDC, NIH, and EPA hold massive power and influence over what’s considered safe, effective, and necessary. But they aren’t elected. They’re run by career bureaucrats — "scientists”, administrators and unelected technocrats who answer to no one. They’re deciding what’s approved and what’s enforceable — not your government, and certainly not you.
They don't need your vote — they just need your silence.
Refuse to stay silent. Build alternatives that expose their failures.
✅ Build parallel systems of independence.
✅ Expose agency failures constantly.
2. Support more thinkers like Calley & Casey Means.
Entrepreneurs like Calley Means and Dr. Casey Means are lighting fires under broken institutions. They have pointed out how upstream policy decisions make downstream disaster inevitable. Calley, admits how corporations "buy" public health policy. Casey advocates for root-cause medicine and calls out how our system profits more from chronic illness than from wellness.
Their work is part of a growing movement to reclaim health, choice and agency.
3. Vote for candidates who dismantle, not decorate, the status quo.
Yes, Congress technically "make the laws" — but in reality:
Pharma writes health policy
Big Ag writes nutrition guidelines
Defense contractors write foreign policy asks
Financial firms write deregulation language
Support leaders who challenge corporate capture — not manage it politely.
4. And most importantly, take back control of our own financial futures.
Because financial freedom is the gateway to every other kind of freedom.
If you can’t make decisions without fear — of job loss, medical debt, or government penalties — you’re not really free. You’re just surviving.
Start today. Open that investment account. Learn. Question. Insure your life Grow your mindset.
Don’t overlook quality.
At 🐢BMG we’re building a different standard — and helping others do the same.
Don't wait —
step your game up
