Let’s talk broadband and climate. Five percent of Americans still live with internet speeds barely good enough to check email. That’s unacceptable. Fiber to every mailbox isn’t a dream. It’s overdue. Utility-scale solar is cheaper than coal. But we delay projects for five years because someone didn’t update the paperwork. Bury the power lines through fire zones. Standardize EV plugs. Fine any data broker that sells your info without consent one percent of their global revenue. Not just a slap on the wrist. Real consequences. Climate change is here. We can either future-proof the grid and infrastructure or pay six times more in disaster cleanup.
And then there’s NASA. This part is personal. Trump’s budget gutted NASA back down to pre-2015 levels. That move doesn’t just hurt science. It kills innovation. Private rockets have dropped launch costs to under three thousand dollars per kilo. And we want to cut the one agency that knows how to build for the future? Space isn’t just exploration. It’s logistics. It’s new materials. It’s medical breakthroughs. It’s energy. NASA missions create spin-off tech that touches everything from your smartphone screen to your hospital bed. We should be doubling R&D, not slashing it. We should be investing in lunar construction, microgravity manufacturing, and satellite servicing. We should be building, not begging.
I don’t want culture wars. I don’t want nostalgia politics. I want results. The Democrats don’t have the fire to fight. The Republicans want to drag us backward while grinning. What we need is a third party. One that treats government like a system to optimize, not a turf war to perform in. These issues I’ve laid out? They’re just the start. They’re the ones I feel most. But I know millions of people have their own list. What I’m saying is this: I’m done choosing between fear and failure. If no one in the two-party system is going to deliver what people need, then it’s time for something else.