I Do Not Consent

I do not consent to a system where my life, and the lives of my fellow human beings, are subject to the profit-and-loss spreadsheets of a corporation or managed by PE firms and institutions that are extractive in nature. I do not consent to a corporate-controlled government that, through its own designed inaction, allows a system where healthcare is denied—where a pre-existing condition, a simple fact of human biology, can be used as a reason to bankrupt a family or deny them care.

This is not governance. This is sanctioned predation. A corporation that is granted the legal right to exist by our society, that uses our public infrastructure, our educated workforce, and our shared stability, must be held to the same—if not a higher—standard of accountability as our government.

You cannot have a "pre-existing condition" clause for citizenship. The government cannot deny you your fundamental rights because you were born with asthma or developed cancer. That would be universally condemned as barbaric. Why, then, do we allow corporate entities, which we ourselves charter into existence, to do exactly that? They are setting rules on who is worthy of care and who is not, who may live without financial ruin and who may die. They are, in effect, legally permitted to kill for profit.

This is an obscenity. It is a gross perversion of power. And it is all happening under a fiat system—a system of money that we, the public, are mandated to use, and which the government has a sovereign responsibility to manage for the public good. We are forced to participate in an economy where the very means of survival—health—is gatekept by for-profit entities that face no real competition and are shielded from the consequences of their decisions.

The Demand is Simple and Non-Negotiable

Corporations must follow the same rules we set for government.

• If the government is forbidden from denying a person life-saving care due to a pre-existing condition, then so must every entity operating under its authority.
• If the government is expected to act in the public trust, then so must every corporation that benefits from the public commons.
• If the government is prohibited from cruel and unusual punishment, then a corporation must be prohibited from the cruel and usual practice of putting a price tag on a human life and finding it too expensive.

This is not a negotiation. It is a realignment of power back to its rightful source: We, the People. My consent is the only thing that gives this system legitimacy. And on this point, I, and millions like me, are withdrawing it. We demand a system where the right to life, health, and dignity is not a commodity to be sold, but a foundation upon which all else is built.

At the end of the day, life is our opportunity to come together — regardless of circumstance or the manufactured divisions of color, age, race, drugs, appearance, identity, sexual preference, struggles, or even borders. Our purpose is to lift one another for the good of all, especially our children and the generations that will inherit what we leave behind.

And we need to be honest: the system we live under is built on an outdated framework — designed for control, shaped by slaveholding mindsets, and now maintained by private equity firms and powerful institutions. It is not real freedom. It's management.

So we have to ask ourselves: Are we finally going to change it, or are we going to allow the same mechanisms and frameworks that have been created and currently used for exclusion and devaluation, keeping the mass trapped — only to hand the same broken system to our children and every generation that follows? What mechanisms are used today that keeps the mass in their own demise?

And remember this: if you feel fear around changing the system, that fear didn’t appear by accident — it was created to keep you controlled and the framework the same. We should never be afraid of transforming our society for the better; we should be excited by the possibility. Everything in your life, just like mine, was built by people — which means it can be rebuilt in a better way. There is no such thing as “that’s just how it is.” We design the systems that shape our world. It’s only that the one we’re living under now has evolved into something cold, detached, and increasingly psychopathic in nature.