By Rachel Suh
Being grounded is essential to finding your community.
Escaping the Oppression Box is how True Servant Leaders are built. After turning off the Idiot Box propaganda and distractions, learning how money speaks in the Money Box, then understanding that humility is necessary to listen quietly to the earth and feed a family through the Garden Box, this series brings us to the next piece of the puzzle: the Social Box.
It’s the bridge from “I” to “we” without ever surrendering individual sovereignty.
Our current government has been dealing in chaos, havoc, and lawlessness cloaked in secrecy since at least 2020. It has destabilized lives and freedoms, and, in many cases, uprooted Coloradans from multi-generational homes and families. Small mountain communities that once felt like sanctuaries now watch neighbors leave as property taxes double, regulations strangle farms, and outside money flood the market. Communities have splintered while Colorado is being sold. Neighbors have become strangers. Culture dies by a thousand tiny cuts while the state and its partners enrich themselves on the backs of those barely holding on.
This is modern colonialism- The Oppression Box- and it must be rejected with the same fire our ancestors used against the crown. Every American—born in the High Country or eastern plains, drawn here by the same love of liberty—is a brother or sister. Protecting our communities requires us to come together as catalysts for the Colorado culture rooted in voluntary cooperation and mutual aid.
Colorado is being bought and sold—our mountains, rivers, identity, land, people, and government chopped up by outsiders who do not understand what it means to live where God speaks through the pines and peaks.
Knowing who we are is how we band together.
This knowledge becomes our Working Together Agreement: the living document that replaces coercive law with mutual respect and shared purpose.
The government is extractive by nature, selling fear so it can position itself as savior. Our Working Together Agreement- The Constitution- is what constrains a government from becoming oppressive. As Coloradans, we have the inherent right under Article 2 Section 2 to speak openly with one another outside of government constraint as to the type of community and government we want for our children and ourselves. Instead of an oppressive, extracting, controlling, targeting and discriminating government we could expound on a free Colorado.
We are Coloradans. We do not need to be rescued by a governor or government. We are resilient and hard working. We value building personal discipline, strength, and independence. We value private property and raising our children. We value liberty. We know what the problem is and we will provide our solution. By understanding one another, we will then find our people—those who share our values and move toward the
same goal of true liberty under personal freedom and responsibility. This is the Social Box in action: the shift from personal development to social development.
The changes in government begin to take real effect when we discard extraction government for finding and building a trustworthy community based on shared values and cooperation.
We set aside fighting for a mutual goal: freedom.
It then becomes naturally imperative to fall outside of the two-party system to be an example of peaceful existence, moving past hyper-partisan fighting to tangible solutions that don’t require our People to be at constant war for party factions.
Robin Dunbar’s Number shows humans can maintain only about 150 stable relationships. Beyond that, bureaucracy creeps in and trust evaporates. That is why voluntaryist communities stay small, flexible, and self-governing—five intimate allies, fifteen companions, fifty trusted friends. These are the people you trade with, pray with, defend, and celebrate alongside.
The practical tool that makes this possible is the Working Together Agreement: a co-created, living document born at kitchen tables. You ask permission to facilitate. You explain goals. You enrich it with specifics—how we communicate, resolve conflict, what our best wishes are for one another. Everyone participates. The litmus test is simple: short, observable, created together, agreed by all, good enough to start.
This agreement is the foundation of True Servant Leadership—the heart of everything in The Guide. Traditional leaders sit at the top issuing commands. True servant leaders stand at the bottom, supporting and developing people now and for future generations, guiding through mentorship, teaching, facilitation, and coaching. They are not rulers. Their characteristics include humility, authenticity, accountability, stewardship, and empowerment. They practice community building, empathy, foresight, listening, discernment, and responsibility.
In 2026 Colorado, this is not theory. It is the new operating system.
What Colorado Looks Like Under True Servant Leadership
Imagine waking up in a Colorado where the governor no longer declares endless “emergencies” to strip away rights or usher in the military. Where counties cannot hand your vote to private corporations. Where judges cannot rewrite the Constitution on the bench, and unelected bureaucrats cannot drag you into administrative courts that skip due process. Where your guns, children, speech, land, water, and wallet are truly yours again.
This future is built by grounded communities practicing True Servant Leadership and then using the Ballot Box to shrink government to its constitutional minimum.
We the People file ballot initiatives that do exactly what The Guide’s Ballot Box chapter (a future installment in this series) prescribes: repeal unconstitutional laws, deregulate coercive institutions, decentralize power, and apply business-agility principles (sprints, accountability, servant leadership) to dismantle bureaucracy.
The amendments are straightforward and ironclad:
The Constitution of the United States and Colorado is declared the Supreme Law of the Land. Violating the oath of office becomes automatic removal with personal liability.
Essential functions (elections, law enforcement, adjudication) cannot be delegated to private parties.
No judicial rewriting of laws or words during enforcement. No administrative courts without full due process, jury trial, and constitutional appeal.
No executive emergency declarations longer than thirty days without two-thirds legislative approval, and never suspending rights.
Core liberties are hardened: absolute constitutional 2A; parental authority absolute; total speech protection on all platforms; privacy against warrantless tracking and AI data collection; strict property and regulatory protections; prior-appropriation water rights restored; TABOR reinforced with automatic refunds and penalties for evasion.
These changes are led by “anti-politicians”—elected servants who run not to expand government through executive order, military might, legislative rule, or judicial activism- but to dismantle overreaching government control and close legal loopholes that have allowed the Constitution to be ignored outright. Anti-politicians operate exactly like the servant leaders in our Working Together Agreements: standing back, empowering people, facilitating voluntary solutions. Local governments shrink to roads, services, and basic safety. Everything else becomes mutual aid networks, private arbitration, skill-share economies, and parallel institutions.
Extraction leaders who thrive on regulation and control either adapt or leave.
The rest of us build, create, and celebrate with humility, accountability, and stewardship. Government is no longer trying to recreate or take over entire market sectors, such as real estate, education, and health. Property taxes fall. Families stay on the land. Farmers control their water. Parents choose education without fear. Speech flows freely. Guns owners are no longer targeted. Neighbors settle disputes through the same agreements already practiced in our small circles. There is less fighting and less cost. The costs of partisan war have simply become too great. We look toward peace, not another battle.
So the vision is not the chaos and violence the government thrives on— quite the contrary, it is just people with discipline to govern themselves, cooperating voluntarily, and starving the beast by withdrawing consent. Communities will flourish because we are no longer warring amongst one another for personal enrichment by government decree, but, instead, we remember we are brothers and sisters- not subjects.
The state shrinks… simply because we choose to stop feeding it.
Fear collapses when people know they won’t find a savior in government.
In 2026, we can simply sidestep our failed government by representing ourselves through The People’s Initiatives, electing representatives who pledge to facilitate
amendments that enforce lean governance under strict constitutional constraint and the expansion of personal liberties. These amendments are needed to close the legal loopholes government actors are using to make the lives of Coloradans harder each and everyday.
Colorado already has the strongest initiative process in the nation. Any registered voter can propose amendments, gather signatures, and pass them by majority. The legislature cannot stop it. The governor cannot veto it. Courts cannot rewrite it if it is written tightly enough.
Coloradans have already done the work, building their own small, trustworthy circles. Under True Servant Leadership, Coloradans can step up to lead the charge toward reduced, liberty-centered government.
Freedom is the goal.
Start where you are. Host the gathering. Draft the first Working Together Agreement with five allies. Then draft the ballot language together. File the initiative. Gather the signatures. Vote for a Colorado that represents you.
The state wants you isolated, dependent, and afraid. Choose connection, sovereignty, and courage—guided by True Servant Leadership that truly puts people above power.
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