Principles
Foundational Principles
These are not policies. They are not partisan talking points. They are the conditions that must exist before any honest policy debate can happen — and before government is returned to the people in the republican form the Constitution intended.
Corporations are not people.
The Constitution was written for human beings. Artificial entities created by state charter should not enjoy the same rights as the people they employ. Corporations exist at our pleasure. They serve our purposes. They are tools, not citizens.
Money is not speech.
The First Amendment protects your right to speak. It does not protect anyone’s right to buy a megaphone that drowns out everyone else. When money equals speech, those with money have more speech. That is plutocracy dressed in constitutional clothing.
Workers have the right to associate and speak without fear of retaliation.
You cannot negotiate as an individual what you can only win collectively. When workers are forbidden from organizing, discussing their wages, or speaking truth to power without losing their jobs, the result is not a free market. It is a rigged game where the house always wins.
The government belongs to the people.
Not to the highest bidder. Not to the corporate lobby. Not to foreign interests pumping money through shell companies into our elections. The consent of the governed means nothing if the governed have no real voice in who governs them.
No one is above the law.
Not the billionaire who crashes the economy and walks away with a bonus. Not the corporation that poisons a town’s water and gets a tax break. Not the politician who takes money from the industries they are supposed to regulate. Equal justice under law must mean exactly that — or it means nothing at all.
Your labor is the source of all value.
Every product made, every service delivered, every innovation realized begins with human labor. Capital allocates. Management organizes. Workers create. Your labor is not a commodity to extract at the lowest cost. It is the engine of prosperity, and it deserves respect, protection, and fair compensation.
These six principles are not a wishlist. They are the preconditions for honest democracy.
Until they are restored, every policy debate is a negotiation in which one side holds all the cards and the other side does not even know the game is rigged.
That is what we stand for. That is what People Primaries is about. The 1% bought Congress through the party-donor machine. We are the majority — and it only takes 2% of workers to take it back.