John Washington III Says the Corrupt Political System Needs to Be Exposed and Calls for Peaceful, Constitutional Change
John Washington III, a 2028 presidential candidate, argued that independent voices are pushed out while their ideas are handed to chosen candidates, and called that gatekeeping, not democracy.
John Washington III, a candidate for president in 2028, said the corrupt political system needs to be exposed. He asked who decides who gets put in front of the cameras, and who gets the money, the endorsements and the publicity.
John Washington III asked why independent voices get pushed out while their ideas get stolen. They will not stand behind independent voices, he wrote, but they will hand those ideas to their chosen candidates. "That's not democracy, that's gatekeeping," he wrote.
John Washington III called for change — peaceful, constitutional change — to build a new government that actually works for the people. He pointed to the Declaration of Independence, which he noted says that when a government becomes destructive of the people's rights, the people can alter or abolish it.
John Washington III urged Americans to come together and build something that serves the people, not the powerful.
