Here’s what this real voter in the real world really thinks about things that really matter.

I have exactly zero expectation that Kamala Harris will ever care what I think, and I pray earnestly that she loses this election. May God yet have mercy on us.

I have only small hopes that Donald Trump will care what I think, and I pray earnestly that he wins this election.

Regardless, here’s what I would say to our next president, and to our next Congress.

A Reasonable List of Demands

1. Close the border completely for a minimum of two years—and by this, I mean close it completely. There is no other way to stop the dangerous trafficking and total insanity that is happening now. Close the border and stop all immigration for at least two years. In those two years, get serious about dismantling the current “broken system” and FIX IT. Figure out how to allow for legal, safe, sensible immigration that the nation can actually handle. I don’t want to hear one more politician wax insincerely about our “broken immigration system” that no one ever seems to know how to fix, or and is even less willing to fix. All of you — especially Joe Biden and Harris — are responsible for the violent deaths of Americans (children!) at the hands of foreign gang members who never should have set foot on our soil in the first place. ENOUGH ALREADY. It is not racist or bigoted to insist that the USA have secure borders and a legal immigration process that works and protects U.S. citizens first.
   
2. Stop corrupting, brainwashing, and butchering our children with the transgender ideology madness that is now a billion-dollar industry. Stop threatening parents who try to protect their children from it when schools are trying to indoctrinate them with it. Only in your insane, upside-down-world are parents accused of abuse for wanting to save their son from having his penis cut off, or trying to save their daughter from having her healthy breasts cut off. Stop turning children into lifelong pharmaceutical patients with chronic, damaging side effects from the “affirming care” that leaves them sterile, irrevocably harmed, and mutilated. Shame on every single one of you who has or continues to encourage this perverse savagery against our kids.
3. Have the courage to say this, mean it, and stand by it: The child in the womb is a human being who has the right to live and be born. If you have strong convictions about the evil of slavery, then you have no excuse not to have strong convictions about killing the unborn. Have the courage to say this, mean it, and stand by it: No decent, civilized society with any hope of calling itself just and compassionate can abide any demand to have the “right” to kill its own citizens while they are still in the womb. It’s barbaric. It’s sinful. And it must end.

4. Stop confiscating our wages and sending that money to foreign nations. Our taxes are immorally high, period. The government has no right to confiscate so much of our hard-earned money. It’s just plain theft — and then to turn around and send that money to foreign governments is treasonous. STOP IT. Lower every single one of our taxes, permanently. Stop stealing from us.
5. No one who is not already a lawful citizen of the United States must ever be allowed to vote in any of our elections for any reason. This should not need to be defended and enforced, but you’d better do it anyway.
6. Stop allowing foreign governments, foreign corporations, and foreign citizens to buy land, businesses, and homes in the United States. This should be a no-brainer. Stop allowing foreign nations to buy our country!
7. Stop sending our military to fight and die in your endless foreign wars. Theirs is a noble career, and you cheapen it with your self-serving political games. The constitutional role of government is to secure the blessings of liberty for “the people” — meaning, our OWN citizens — and the role of our military is to defend OUR nation, not police everyone else’s. You spit on their sacrifice and the sacrifice of their families. We are not your pawns. Learn what freedom means, what it costs, and pay it yourself before you expect it from us.
8. Clean up our soil and food supply. Glyphosate is poisoning all of us. We’re chronically sick and obese. We have a toxic food system. To that end, it’s time to require truly honest, transparent, complete labeling of all our food products. We have a right to know what is really in the food we’re buying — in plain language, with labels using words showing real ingredients, not chemical words that disguise the truth. Tell us the truth of what is really in what we’re buying. And stop filling our food with dyes, chemicals, poisons, and insects. (Oh, and guess what? I don’t care what Bill Gates thinks about anything.)
9. Shut down the U.S. Department of Education. The federal government should not be in charge of educating children. This right is enumerated to the states, period.
10. Overhaul our legislation process. Don’t give us any more thousand-page, pork-filled monstrosities that no one can even read or comprehend. No more hiding the way our tax dollars are really being spent by burying your wasteful, stupid pet projects in totally unrelated bills. One bill should be dedicated to one issue, max. It shouldn’t take more than a few pages to explain it. Each one gets its own vote.
11. The Epstein List. Release every single name, every date, every trip, every detail. All of it. No adult gets anonymity. No adult gets protection.
12. Remember that you are not the arbiters of information, “mis” or “dis” or otherwise. No one appointed you to any such office or granted you any such power to control. Free speech used to be sacred in our nation; journalists once at least pretended to value objective facts and fair reporting. But nowhere in our history have the people consented to have the government censor what they can see, read, hear about, watch, or say publicly. If censorship is your goal, get out of our country. Move to China or Cuba, where they celebrate such things. Don’t come back.

I don’t work for any of you. YOU work for ME, for every American citizen. Do your jobs.

P.S. I WANT MY INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULBS BACK. 

Jennifer Hartline is a contributor to The Stream. You can follow her on X at @jenniehartline.