Warning: This article contains strong political views of what our country has become, if you are a fan of American Politics and not of American values then read no further. Also know that I was singing the Shot Heard Round the World in my head as I wrote this, thank you School House Rock!
Throughout history man has been smart enough to see injustices and has spoken out about it. Throughout history, man ha aspited for a peaceful existence to live their life in a safe happy manner. Also throughout history there has been a group of people called leaders who when the rest of the people in a society got lazy gave obtained absolute power. Also when a man or a group of men had obtained the absolute power, the system that once worked became corrupt and was no longer safe or happy for the majority of the people.
This brings us to where the United States is right now. Our government founded by the people, for the people, has lost its main ingredient…. THE PEOPLE! The people have given absolute power to the political officials allowing them to make the decisions of everyone’s day to day life. It is not these elected officials’s fault that they have become corrupt or have assumed absolute power. We, the people, have begun to give them this power generations ago. Little bit by little bit, we have entrusted politicians to make decisions for us instead of making it clear which decisions we wanted made and how. Slowly we began to believe they were smarter than us, and were gave them more and more power, which began to make the people feel powerless.
Therefore, we, the people, have handed this elite group power over us and have relinquished our power over our lives and society. We no longer truly elect a president, your vote does not really count, because an “electoral college.” We no longer decide how we trade with in our country or with other countries, that is set up through trade organizations that follow the people’s in power agenda. We no longer chose what is best for our health, we allow an organization to tell us that the chemicals they put in our food is good for us, and that whole food is dangerous and could even be a drug. Our government (once for the people) now pays other countries to produce 98% of all the items we buy to include food, and has higher standards for goods produced in the United States. Our government fines the small business and charges the American entrepreneur discouraging them to be productive here. This government, that says it has our best interest at heart, is strangling the American producer with guidelines and taxes.
The other day, I watched a video where even the American Man’s rights were being violated and removed from them. A group of nonviolent protestors were being drug out of their crowd, being man handled by 3-5 cops per person, and arrested for wanting to share with the world that the country has forgotten about the People. At some point, the American people have become afraid of the police and the police have forgotten their oath, just as the politicians have forgotten their job to protect the constitution and people’s rights. My understanding of law officials’ job is to protect THE PEOPLE and serve THE PEOPLE. At some point, The People in these officials minds were only the elite population. This makes it completely understandable why THE PEOPLE are scared of them.
My fellow Americans, I am scared for my children and grandchildren with where our country has gone. The Constitution and Bill of Rights are no longer revered as law, but are looked at as a small piece of our history. We have forgotten what the ideals of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence mean, and have thus lost the foundation of our government. I have read and studied about revolutions, civil disobedience, and making change. IT never comes without a cost. Usually what starts as peaceful protests against the corrupted few, quickly turns into a bloody mess, killing and hurting innocent people who want what is best for themselves and their prosperity.
America, we are at the brink of another Revolution. Are we, the people, going to hide and pretend it is not happening? Are we going to blindly continue to follow the people we have allowed to be corrupt as they continue to try to micromanage our lives? or…. Are we going to take back what is ours that we have already lost so many men to uphold? Remember the words of the beginning of the Declaration of Indepence “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve political bonds……” I ask this question to all of you, has the time come for us to start declaring our independence from this corrupt system and their policies that only look out for a few?
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