That way, we get a three-year respite from campaigning. Three whole years in which our elected officials have nothing to do except concentrate on the jobs we hired them to do. Along with targeting the usual suspects like expensive campaigns, well-entrenched incumbents and big special interest groups, Ventura urges citizens to somehow get involved in their government. On the media, Ventura recalls some badly written stories he's had written about him over the years, and blames a lack of accountability and an obsession with scandal on the problem. Their main criteria for the stories they write are not what's newsworthy, but whatever gets the public's attention.
Scandal sells, so that's what they write.
Ventura also takes exception to how the media consistently played up his alleged rivalry with Ross Perot, arguing that there never really was any power struggle going on for control of the Reform Party. In an August 31 article on the book though, the St. Paul Pioneer Press questioned the accuracy of some of Ventura's complaints about the media in the book. Ventura looks at constitutional principles like freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and the way these rights can be abused - along with the individual responsibilities that come with having such rights. At the very least, the Founding Fathers intended the First Amendment to keep the government from establishing a 'national church' that it could use to coerce people into doing what it wanted. On the issues, Ventura offers his thoughts on a wide variety of major topics, including welfare reform, education, health care, and so forth.