by Dahni
© Copyright 2/04/10
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HOW can WE the People regain control of OUR right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?” WE have been delving into what won’t work in order to find what will work. So far:
The List (simplified)
1. Overthrow the government by a military coup or para-military militias?
2. The 9/12 Project?
3. ‘The Commerce Clause?’
4. Convening a Constitutional Congress?
5. Hope that the present circumstances will change and the will of WE the People will be implemented
Today: Why hope that the other party will get its act together and produce the necessary changes, will not work.
Last time WE saw that just hoping everything will change will not work as we put no action; no belief or believing behind the desire for change. The same is true, hoping that the other party will get it together.
With low confidence among US, WE the People in mainstream media and politicians from both sides of the aisle, OUR inaction is just as effective (counterproductive) as those WE consider responsible for most of OUR problems in the first place. WE often take the attitude and the position of ‘wait and see.’ Wait and see for what, what are WE waiting for?
Many patriots deciding to get off that fence jumped into the pasture, of the town hall meetings. Some of OUR servants decided not to participate and didn’t even bother to show up. Some argued with the very people that put them into office. Some blatantly told their constituents that it did not matter what they wanted, they were going to vote their conscience and do whatever they thought best, not what WE the People wanted. Since WE the People got off the fence and jumped into the political pasture, many were labeled as idiots or worse and were just “full of” what they were walking around on, in the pasture. It’s just another classic example of US against them.
After experiencing a ‘smack-down’ from OUR elected servants whose demeanors and attitudes came off as being better and smarter than US, WE the People, it caused many of US to become hesitant in getting involved again, in the political process. These attitudes by the way, come from those who did not know who wrote the bills or even read the bills they wanted to subject the rest of US, OUR futures and the futures of OUR children’s children to have to pay for. WE view these attitudes as coming from the elite that waste OUR money on their own private comforts and security. Frustrated with the whole thing and with these people, WE throw up our hands, give up, and just wait and see.
What do WE see? Instead of solutions, WE see the ‘blame game’ being played. Oh, it’s not my fault I inherited this mess from him, her, they and them. OK fine, someone borrows your car and leaves the lights on and leaves town. You get into your car the next day to go somewhere and it won’t start, because the battery is dead. After hurling choice expletives into the air, what do you do next? Do you just sit there until whenever, because this is not your fault or do you just get the battery charged?
One year WE have one party or one person in control of this and that. WE wait and see and when they lose OUR confidence, WE elect another person and/or another party to replace them. WE want our politicians to know WE are watching them. In times past it seemed like WE votes really mattered, forcing the screw-ups to change in order to get elected or re-elected next time and forcing those in office to hold the line or WE would vote them out. Today, this does not seem to make any difference anymore, the fear of loss to many politicians does not seem as important to them as it once was. Why is that?
For one thing, it’s not the pay they receive while in office, it’s the benefits and the pension they’ll get after they leave, for the rest of their lives, paid for by WE the People. From a business point of view, salaries in government are not that great. So why would they want to get into politics in the first place, to serve? If this was mostly true, why do most of them try and maintain their service for most of their lives? That sounds like careers to me and not service. Let’s use the president’s benefit package as an example. But first, let’s see what he came into office with, courtesy of WE the People.
Published books with millions of dollars in royalties? Had he ever written one before? So curiosity compelled people; popularity influenced people and getting on the bandwagon of everyone is buying them mentality, the media, marketing and advertising and referrals all produced sales. Don’t ask me about the content of these books as I really don’t know. But it made personal wealth climb to millionaire status. Clearly the president does not need the money. But he has an annual salary of about $250,000 a year. Not bad, but not too great either, considering the pressures of the job and in comparison to what other C.E.O.’s make. But this does not include FREE room and board, FREE travel, FREE food, a lot of other FREE stuff, benefits extended to and include his immediate family, plus the many benefits after leaving office, all courtesy of, WE the People. But why do people want the type of pressure that comes with these jobs? The simple answer is, sphere of influence, power and control and all at OUR expense. So what if they screw up everything, they’ve got theirs and will keep getting theirs,long after they leave office
So WE wait and see. If they don’t care about getting elected or re-elected, and they don’t seem to respect US, WE the People, all it seems like WE can do is to wait, watch and see if they implode or devour each other. WOW, that’s pretty cynical; pretty pathetic! Is this all? Is this just “damned if WE do and damned if WE don’t?”
This is not a choice of the lesser of two evils. There are those in political office or that will one day enter in that really do care. WE have seen many of the good people throw up their hands and leave, sick and tired of the whole game. Then there are the bright-eyed, full-of-hope; full of potential and possibility – ‘newbies’ that enter. So some seasoned one takes them under their wing and shows them how things are done. Intentional or not, the wing people mess with the little chicks and the little chicks get transformed to often something else that even they were not expecting. And WE the People weren’t either!
So after the mud settles to the bottom and the ripples cease; the water becomes clear and WE can see all the way to the bottom. All of this is not about a person, persons or parties. This is not drinking water it’s a stagnant cesspool. It is a corrupt, corrupting and corruptible system. Even the good apples will eventually rot in this barrel of rotten apples. I’ve no doubt that there are some that know exactly what is going on or at least some of it, but for the most part, it is just the way it is and has been since 1861, 1863 and 1871. But it does not have to stay this way. Guess who it’s up to, to change it? WE the People!
Hoping that the other party will get its act together and produce the necessary changes will not work, because there is no measurable difference between the people and the parties in politics. The problem is the system. It’s the system that WE the People must eliminate.
I have promised and will keep my promise. I promise you that what WE can do about all of this and HOW to do it is coming! It is really quite simple. It will not take forever or even a lifetime. It will only take a small amount of time and your direct participation. It may be difficult, but WE can do it IF, WE the People so will to do it. Do WE so will?
What may seem as insurmountable odds in regaining control of our liberties may appear hopeless, but there is an answer! Stay tuned here as we continue.
Next Time: Remain divided and work for self, other causes, parties and candidates?
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Ask not what your country can do for you
or what you can do for your country,
but what can WE the People do, for each other!
1 of WE,
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