When Washington fails, where do we start to get things back on line and functional?
Attempting to answer this question without being aware of what you are authorized to do is a fiasco of futility. Remember who we are dealing with, these are educated people, people who have built their lives around politics, the game that few if any of us know how to play, so it is best we equip ourselves with the basics in order to understand the playing field we should embark on.
How many ways is there that we as citizens can actually impact our government besides voting? To begin with, our first recourse is to join together into a cohesive group of citizens and present an agreed on proposal to our elected officials, that proposal is called a petition, this is also the first stumbling block because it is here that the desires of the public (us) are fleshed out and put in black and white (ink and paper). At this stage, the first problem arises, agreement, arguments arise here as they should, but in the inevitable confrontations that will take place one ground rule must be remembered by every participant, and that is what the outcome of these confrontations, are they for the agenda of one facet over another or do they serve the end desire to effect change conducive to the greater population (citizenry). Therefore it is suggested from the outset to document a proposal, to build a mission statement with an acceptable outcome, for any citizen's group, there has to be systemic structure that evidences that purpose, arguments only go so far if there is no structure on which they are founded. Our progenitors knew this, that's why the Continental Congress came into being, it was a force to be reckoned with, through it, the birth of our nation.
Given today's America with all the situations that are ongoing since Obama took office, how do we settle down enough to come together for the purpose of improvement, therein is is a major fault area. There are many, many agitators around to try to dissuade the citizenry from altering the stance of factions, you see, as long as we remain factions, we look to our own agendas and that's it.
Unification is a pipe dream, without unification, there are no accomplishments, no accomplishments, no forward movement, no forward movement, we as the public remain marginalized and ineffective which is the aim of the ruling class. Do not get me wrong, our individuality is the substance that cements a cohesive group in that through our individuality and logical interactive progression mountains can be moved, viewpoints become all important in building unity, every opinion must carry the same weight when considering this type of move.
There is nothing subversive in peaceful gatherings, there is nothing subversive in dissent, both are our public duty, both are our responsibility as citizens of the United States of America and no one, and I mean no one has the right to suppress that. So how do we begin, we all know the "Grass Root" organizations, The Tea Party, Young Republicans, NRA, etc, etc. These are great organizations they each have admirable histories, their names among the myriad of other organizations have clout with the governing bodies, yet there are so many more that need to be heard, you know who I mean, you, your neighbor, the family down the street the retired family, the family on social assistance, the children and adolescents in the schools, the young adults in the colleges, the couples and families in the churches, the people you see in the department stores, in the super markets, the people on the street, in the homes, they all need to be heard, but where is their voice, in Washington? PALEESE---GIVE ME A BREAK! No, the ones I am talking about are us, it's time for us to make the headlines, believe me, they will listen, as one smart grasshopper said in a cartoon, (referring to the ants) "If the ever unite and find out how strong they are, we are finished, they are millions we are not."
I previously stated that the need for cohesion is paramount in effecting change, without that cohesion there is nothing but noise, posturing and gesticulating, and that amounts to nothing as examples I offer an encounter between former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Georgetown Professor Michael Eric Dyson about the disparity between blacks and whites, while one used facts that could be easily proven, the other used rhetoric, generalization, and overly used verbiage in trying to access the salient points of his unproductive manifesto of how bad things were. On one hand the Mayor offered solutions that worked in New York under his leadership and the other rhetoric as usual designed only to inflame and divert. as of late, the usual occupation of the liberal left, in my opinion the blast everything that in their opinion is wrong, but offer no solid solutions, just verbose articulation with no point. There are many, many more examples of this ploy, and that's all it is, a ploy. It is used when one side of a problem has nothing to offer in the way of remedy, has it worked? Judge for yourself, are we any closer to resolving the current situation in the United States than we were six months ago if you say no, then it's time to get busy.
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