America's Silent Tyrants

 By CE Marshall 

                       

                Hero of the Individual's Right to Live Unhindered by Government

                                                            Charlie Kirk 

     As I consider the frustrations regarding our government today, the daunting obstacles to restoring the American individual's voice keep surfacing in my mind. These obstacles are what have come to be like major parts of a snake or even snakes themselves, a silent tyranny, each of the snakes of this tyrant are dependent on one another as they slither their way around our Democratic Republic- constricting and rendering the ordinary citizens powerless.   The snakes are as follows;  

  

Snake Number One- Of all the parts, this is most logically described as the "head" of all the snakes. The Federal Agencies who hold centralized power without being elected. This is very much to the advantage of Leftists because they are in favor of more government control.  Federal agencies are, well.... them!   Government control is their modus operandi.  This explains why DC is 95% Democrat.    

Snake Number two- The Lobbyists who use money to direct the nation’s law to their own specific need.  This is the biggest advantage to corporations who often require laws to do a lot of what they do at the expense of free competition in the marketplace. It is "freedom to petition the government" on steroids.  In their defense though, the government allows it and takes advantage of the relationship in many different ways.  I don't see how it benefits the people though. To petition the government should be from individual citizens or private groups not corporations and political action committees.     

Snake Number three- The Elections, which require enormous amounts of money to render any candidate capable of being elected. This naturally encourages the parties to throw enormous amounts of money towards the individual they think can win the election, never mind if they are or are not qualified.  The end result is a candidate that the party wants but not necessarily one that is good for the country.  That aspect is of very little concern, especially to the Leftists because their “reason for being” is it to subjugate the individual anyway. Why would they care what the American people actually want or need?       

Snake Number four- The political parties being the critical aspect of elections render two camps of thought in government – one always ruling over the other according to which party won.  This results in elected officials being in a position of tyranny in that the rights of the other side are ignored or subjugated.   Elected officials are supposed to be leading us all, not just those that agree with them, aren’t they?    This is much more terrifying under the Democrats because their willingness and glee to silence the individual is much easier with federal agencies and an army supporting them.      

Snake Number five - The media and their tendency towards the left.  Why?  The virtue signaling of journalists is irresistible.  Also, the money is very good if you're at the top of the media pecking order.  In their mind they're saving the poor pathetic victims from the big bad rich people even though they are often the rich ones being discussed.   Of course, there are many different versions of this "we're the saviors" ideal, but you get the point.   They get to play "superman" for their audience no matter how untrue that might be.    Conservatives are becoming more alert to the situation, though.  Cable TV has Fox News and Newsmax, which are both conservative.  Online X, podcasts and other online news sources tend to be more moderate and/or conservative.   Newspapers?  They are becoming relegated to the ash heap of history because they’re nearly 100% to the left.   Most major newspapers such as the NYT and the Washington Post are so biased as to be laughable.  I only read the newspaper to get the jest of the liberal opinions on whatever topic is running through society this week.   For the media, the money and the need to feel virtuous is a lifelong addiction for the collective.  They are emotional parasites.  The Leftists still rule in this category although their power is waning.     

Snake Number six - The court system ruling on matters of crime and punishment where the judge takes it upon himself to divvy up justice or lack of justice according to his or her emotions and his or her perception of social justice and inequality rather than the rule of law. They often favor the parasites over people who actually accomplish things and work hard.  Guess which party tends to rule in favor of social justice and sees the criminal as a victim and the victim as a villain?  The court system is the Leftist’s tool for enacting laws that the Republicans do not want by having a court rule something as a "law" such as was the case with the legalization of abortion.  No election required.  In addition, by not enforcing laws that Republicans support, they still get their way whether they were elected or not.  It’s also a wonderful source for the Leftists to feel virtuous for their “liberal” leanings- a lifelong addiction as mentioned above.  They get their way, one way or another.  It is the truest form of dictatorship in that it seeks to control justice in order for the dictators to feel better about themselves.  

  Snake Number seven- Academia and its tendency towards the left – partly due to its dependency on a generous government and partly due to its allegiance to all thing's science – usually pitting “serious” matters to science and spiritual matters to being of no importance.  (Ironically most higher levels of education such as Harvard were begun as a type of seminary for studying God and His influence on science, not "Science as the God" where it lies today.) Academia is enshrined as the government’s lifelong lapdog because it is a fountainhead of cash and they are unlikely to disagree with anything the government dictates (by that I mean agencies not the elected officials). One very convenient example is global warming or climate change.  This is a tool for more government control.  So, for example, if you’re studying climate change you will find out quickly there is no money to test IF “climate change” is real but there’s plenty of money to prove it IS real and better yet, to elaborate on how the calamity is hovering over all of us unless we obey their latest edict.       

       As you can see, at the root of all of these snake parts there is one very common denominator, the Leftists or people who gain from government relations- "cronyism".  The Leftists' aim is to get the government more power which quite naturally diminishes the power of the individual.  Money supports the head of the snake, the federal agencies, and that money comes from the American people and businesses.  It is their sly form of reallocation of wealth.  They then use the media to trumpet their philosophy.  At the same time corporations are beholden to federal agencies to stay in business so they play the game lest they get left out. The only topic that’s not totally the fault of the Leftists is, ironically, the political parties.  The Republicans are as guilty of abusing the power of the party as the Democrats.  The difference is the Republicans do work to instill personal rights of the individual such as speech, religion, and personal thought itself- the right to think for yourself and live a life you choose.  The pursuit of happiness.  Republicans can play dirty and flex their power, but they are much more tied to the reason for the existence of our country - the power of the individual and his or her absolute sanctity. We the People.  We are the sovereign of the United States just as King Charles is the sovereign of the United Kingdom.  Much to the chagrin of any pro-government philosophy, the individual is the ruler of America.  This is the secret of its power.  May it reign forever.  

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On Lies and Victimhood

                                                                 Fyodor Dostoevsky

Every once in a while, I'll run across a quote from a historic character that just bangs me over the head with its truth.  I'm reading "Crime and Punishment" by the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky.  The quote is not from that book, but I allude to the fact because he is on my mind and in my thoughts these days.  I really like his writing, it's descriptive and engaging and there's a wisdom there that's rarely found in modern literature, though maybe we will get back to such wisdom.  He lived from 1821 to 1881.  In this quote he speaks of men who lie to themselves and he elaborates on the pleasure of being insulted or "offended" as we would say today.  It's such a vapid, empty headed, egotistical thing to do.  There is no merit in it.  It reminds of the image of pigs wallowing in the mud, or a dog rolling around in it's own shit.  

"And above all, do not be so ashamed of yourself, for that is at the root of it all… You have known for a long time what you must do. You have sense enough: don't give way to drunkenness and incontinence of speech; don't give way to sensual lust; and, above all, to the love of money. And close your taverns. If you can't close all, at least two or three. And, above all—don't lie... Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.  The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill—he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it, and so pass to genuine vindictiveness."

Fyodor Dostoevsky- From "The Brothers Karamazov"

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God Demands Justice

 By CE Marshall 

                                                                  Lady Justice 

Full disclosure- this is taken from an original blog I posted in February- it is a variation on a theme.  I re-read it and I realized there has still not been justice served in our capital.   The whole thing seems to be ignored and forgotten.  Readers, don't forget what's been done for the last 60 years, since Kennedy was murdered by our own government - the "Deep State" has grown and grown - more money,  more power and more oppression.  Much of it has sprung from the Democrat party and its addiction to power and control.  As I said in another blog- "they should not be allowed to get back up and breathe".   The legacy media participates with their partisan and specious reporting.  Academia with their bloated bank accounts and demands for full compliance to their opinions and all of our money.  Scientific refusal to allow open debate that questions "accepted science" of their own making and profit- whether regarding vaccines, climate change, pharmaceutical drugs, or wars.  Have you noticed that after a few years "accepted science" comes into question ?   Their minions in the ranks- the useful idiots- a gaggle of Trump haters who prefer crime riddled streets,  trillions squandered on an unproven and undebated climate crisis, a wasteful idiotic government that is more than generous with OUR money.  They piss it away on absurd programs and social experiments of the left.  Always there is sympathy and support for the criminals at the expense of the innocent.  Always there is support for the insane and addicted at the expense of safe and clean cities for the people to enjoy.  We have a government in opposition to its own people.   

 I have been writing this blog for quite a while- I guess around 14 years or so.  I was once an avowed centrist because I saw the importance of viewing both opinions as being intelligent and healthy.  The idea to agree to disagree was very important to me.  I still have those values,  however it has become clear that this is not about seeing things from both sides anymore.  It has now become about right versus wrong.  Truth versus lies.  Decency versus demonic thought.  Control versus independent thought.  The oppressors vs the oppressed.  The state VS the person.  

     Our leadership does not seem to be what we thought for a while now.  It has been a masquerade with lies upon lies heaped upon us like loads of dirty clothes on top of a struggling mule.  Now as the Trump administration is digging into the belly of what we all suspected, I find myself sickened that so many people in our leadership have been so crooked for so many years.  I had always hoped that it was just a rumor, that not so many people would be working against the values of our American forefathers.  It is beginning to seem that all the rumors are true and that they may yet be far worse than we had thought.  Not only is it worse than we thought, but it goes back further than we thought !   

     I've just been reading up on details regarding the JFK assassination., and although nothing is really ever settled regarding that horrible day in Dallas of 1963, it does seem this murder was born out of the American government itself.   We all know the name of the "secret" groups in our government so there's no sense in me waving a red flag as to the suspected guilty parties, however the need to silence a President because he was not cooperating with the "Deep State" (for lack of a better term- I actually hate that term) is a form of murder that did not only remove Kennedy but it also removed the people from holding the steering wheel of the American government.   The control has been exposed to be that of shadowy figures in the background of American life that dictate to our leadership and the media what and how we should be thinking.  That, at the end of the day, is the most significant crime.  They're trying to end rule by the people and cement it in the hands of the few, the powerful, the wealthy, the elite,  and the well connected.  The "thought police" are very much alive and well in today's world.  

"So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance;  truth has stumbled in the streets and honesty cannot enter.  Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes prey.  The Lord looked and was displeased that there was no justice.  He saw that there was no one, He was appalled that there was no intervention"  Isaiah 59: 14-16 

     Although we are daily seeing the lies for what they are, the work is not even close to being finished and the group that Elon Musk ran- DOGE- is still working on exposing the truth for all to see.  I pray for their safety.  May God have mercy on the souls of these individuals that have been operating to rob us of our liberty, but may God also expose them for what they are to mankind.  

"According to what they have done, so He will repay wrath to His enemies and retribution to His foes;  He will repay the islands their due.  From the west, people will fear the name of the Lord, and from the rising of the sun, they will revere His glory.  For He will come like a pent-up flood that the breath of the Lord drives forward.  Isaiah 59: 18-19

The left loves to grovel over the latest victim so they can virtue signal and slobber all over the most pathetic of society.  A never ending pity party.  The Democrats ARE the pity party- but that is the extent of their "doing" because they don't actually do or fix anything.  Consider this to pity- "The most abused, mistreated and ignored minority in society is the individual."   No pity here, though please, but realize that  when the individual is finally left alone to live and work and support themselves and their family without the government interrupting it with preferential treatment to specific groups, through obscene income taxes and spiritual shackles of rules and regulations - with virtue signalling opposition to what is good and decent because of their own guilty racist thoughts - only then we can all sing halleluiah and rejoice together with joy and prosperity.  That is self- earned prosperity and accomplishment and fulfillment through the content of one's character.  Then in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King - we can sing "Free at last, free at last, praise God almighty we are free at last".     

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Goals for American Government and Society

By CE Marshall 

   

    In order to have a truly wise and effective government for all the people I think it's at first important that we establish goals for the accomplishment of that government.  The government, even a limited one, is the driving force behind society because it has the power to change laws and enforce laws. Here in the United States, there are some very important details of governing that need to be adjusted, but the bones of the United States government are as solid as ever. The problem is all the baggage we've tacked on for the last 150 years. If we could just tweak the engine we'll have a Maserati on our hands that will inspire the world, not a model T that just chugs along barely satisfying anyone even here in the United States. The good news is most of the world is still using horses and buggies.

   My goal is to draw out ideas and come to conclusions without all the partisan bickering, naysaying, doubting, tongue clicking, eye rolling, and "that will never happen because...." comments that always come when an idea is proposed.  (Was it Albert Einstein that said "Stay away from negative people, they've never seen a solution they didn't see a problem for"?). My thinking is if we don't set a real goal then we'll never work towards a solution. Just because it doesn't look possible on the surface doesn't mean it will "never happen", after all we put a man on the moon didn't we ? (Soon we may get to Mars !)  With that amazing engineering feat - in 1969, no less, then surely we are capable of something so pedantic as getting humans to come together for the betterment of all societies here on earth.

   

We all have similar goals but the underlying sentence that encompasses that springs from the Declaration of Independence;  

"life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"

So, what does that look like ?  

1) Opportunity for all.

2) Efficient government.

3) Effective government.

4) Justice.

5) Prosperity.

6) Peace.

7) Security.

8) Clean Air.

9) Clean Water.

10) Preservation of natural areas.

11) Effective Schools.

12) Honest Information from all sources. 

13) Free and Open Dialogue.

14) Citizenry Free of Addictions.

15) Affordable Food, shelter, and medical care

16) Safe and clean streets 

17) A happy and fulfilling life. 

18) Liveable and safe towns and cities 

In My Humble Opinion......

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"Right VS Left" should be "Individual VS Ruling Class"

 By Charles Eldridge Marshall 

       Political thought has always been categorized as Right VS Left,  Democratic VS Republican, Liberal VS Conservative, and at the extreme Nazi VS Communism.  But it's more difficult  to clarify political thought as one or the other today.  I think Ruling Class VS Individualists suits the situation better, and each party has traded places as the "ruling class" party over the 250 years of the USA's history.  For a long time, the Republicans were more the "ruling class" party as they were tight with corporations and most wealthier and influential citizens tended agree with their way of seeing government.  They were also much more likely to support the institutions of the federal government such as the FBI or the CIA.  Today, that has been turned on its head as Corporate America has sided with the Democratic party in the majority of situations, especially with most of their social ideals such as Abortion and "Black Lives Matter", and the institutions are more supported by the Democrats who understand now their ability to help them rule and control the individual.    I theorize also, that the larger corporations have found their lobbyists are far more effective at directing Congress towards legislations that suits them when the Democrats are running the show - so the government is "on sale" so to speak to the highest bidder.   This has always been true, with either Republican or Democratic leadership, however the Democrats seem to have an easier time choking down their own hypocrisy than the Republicans.  "In the interest of the American people" is much more likely to mean "the American lobbyists" under their breath.   After all, "the ends justifies the means" is certainly at the core of their actions today.  The other reasons for this are varied and more complex than one blog could possibly explore.  I do think this idea- "ruling class VS the individual" is an important one because it does help to understand and clarify what's going on.  You can't fix something if the wrong terms are being used.   Today, individualists would be more logically supportive of the Republican party and statists would be more supportive of the Democratic party.    

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Enemies of the People

 By CE Marshall 

                                                        A possible solution ?  Enlevez leur têtes !!  (JK !! :)

                                                                                    

                                                           

    The United States is embroiled in a silent civil war but it's so hard to wrap your head around the actual players because who knows what or who is fighting whom ?   For this reason I decided to compile a list of the top enemies of the American people, and consequently, the citizens of the world.  I say this affects the entire world because we have always been seen as the leaders of the world for generations.  What we stand for and fight for matters.  We represent the people of the world.  

Here are our enemies.

1)  The corporate media- they are full of half truths and blatant deception to the people, and they would rather drag our country through the mud than see the common man succeed due to a person they did not condone and/or certify.   They want to spoon feed us "little children" with their narrative and dictate to us what to think.  Donald Trump, with all acknowledgment to his "bad manners"  was the first President to speak directly to the people through social media.  Big media could not stand that.  They fought it with all they could muster and reached the point of forgetting themselves and their role.  They got lost in their hatred for Donald Trump and let it spill over to a hatred for the American people. In effect and by proxy they turned into enemies of anything American.  Our borders, our history, our traditions, and of course, the people.  If Donald Trump seemed to like something then they hated it, almost as a direct consequence.  They were driven to mask and hide facts to make him and us look as bad as possible.  They scorn true journalism that works to find the truth because they are unfamiliar with such a concept.  Truth seems to be a relative term and is least necessary if you have a narrative to teach the people.  If you feel truth is important and integral to our society, then the large media organizations are your enemy.  

2)  The Political Parties- The Republicans and Democrats have been at each others throats for a century but behind the scenes they resemble each other.  Yes, they have different concepts of government, but in the end they both run to the lobbyists and big business, special interests, and the media to get done what they want done.   With both hands out they rush to their latest "donation" for their next "election" in a never ending election cycle of "pick your poison" candidates.   George Washington was known to have disliked the idea of a political party and he mentioned it in his farewell address 

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.”  G.Washington Sept. 19, 1796.  

     The parties have way too much power and use each other to perpetuate a never-ending feud.  The preposterous refusal to come to any sort of compromise yields goodies for whoever is in charge with pork packages at every turn.  It pays to not compromise for both parties.  They have spent their way into more and more power making the federal government an enormous borg-like creature where "resistance is futile".   The needs of the people are an after-thought.  Witness some of the most appalling creatures that inhabit the leadership of our Congress with their post 80 year old faces and bodies with not a new thought between them.  They are an old, corrupt, self absorbed, greedy, pathetic, ignoble group of selfish ghouls and we'd be doing them and the world a favor to bag all their heads and gag all their mouths.  If you crave true leadership that represents all of us and works to solve problems of our nation and the world with real debate and compromise, then the political parties- as they are today- are your enemy.  

3)  The School System -  An absurd group of over funded, failure enhancing, zombie creators that do little to enhance thinking and everything to encourage "group think".  Schools need to be torn down and rebuilt to teach students how to think for themselves and to prepare them for living and work according to their talents and interests not some vague idea of "success" with a degree in some useless field.  We can't all be rocket scientists and brain surgeons.  Be honest with students and help them identify what they really want to do and what they are really capable of doing well.  In addition, it is not the role of the school to encourage any "social" movement or to demean minority students into a tranquilized mindset of believing they are somehow less than the other students.   If you think the role of schools is  to form thinking adults and productive citizens doing work that is fulfilling to each person then most of today's schools are your enemy.  

4)  Lobbyists and their clients.  Legalized bribes is what lobbying should be called.  Lobbyists serve the largest corporations- Big Pharmaceutical, big energy, big media, big tech, big insurance, big medical, big entertainment, big special interests !  They represent the big and powerful of our country and our world.  These groups are the least in need of support from the government, but they get the most.  If you think the government has been for sale for long enough and you demand they work for you and your interests- then the federal government and all their "cronyism" is your enemy.  

5)  Bureaucracy-  The federal government owes so much money that it's literally not possible to count it.   And, it keeps getting worse.  Trillions upon trillions with no end in sight.  Today we are nearly $30 Trillion in debt.  Our children's children will know this debt  How could it be this bad ?  Federal bureaucracy.  We have a government that is so large and it employs so many people that it would require years just to close them all down !  The unemployment would send Washington, DC and many other cities into a tailspin of economic depression.   We have agencies for everything known to mankind and it is very common to find that multiple agencies essentially do the same thing.  The details of big federal government would fill many, many books so I won't bore the readers.  Suffice it to say, if you hate waste,  then the federal bureaucracy is your enemy.  

     So there you have it, the Enemies of the People.  May we all endeavor to fight on and end this tyranny of incompetence and avarice.  

     

Old Fashioned Debates

 By Chuck Marshall 

Dear wise readers, 

     I posted again on FB today my humble opinion regarding politics.  I cannot help myself.  I'm a zebra with stripes.  A cheetah with spots.  A frog with a ribbit.  I am what I am.  Anyway,  what was my "beef" today ?  I can't stand the idea that I have friends on FB that have actually blocked my posts or would potentially de-friend me if I uttered a political comment to the contrary of their own opinion.  It's just so immature and dimwitted and really, at the end of the day.. boring  !  Why shy away from debate- aren't people curious why some people think the way they do ?  I love hearing opinions, even if they aren't my own.  My problem is when an opinion or category of opinions is muzzled.  It tells me the people doing the muzzling are up to no good because they cannot debate.  They have no answer but to shut you up.  That's not what our country is about.  We will NEVER solve our problems until we start listening to each other. 

     The Mainstream or corporate media is the most guilty of this.  They want to control the thoughts of people not listen to other ideas.  Why don't they see that the concept of hearing opinions equally and fairly debated is actually quite interesting AND can be entertaining !  Maybe even more entertaining than hating Donald Trump !  

Anyway, here's what I said;

"I am very vocal with my opinion because that's just who I am. I care about every FB friend I have but I often wonder about people not willing to hear other opinions. I know some people have un-friended me and blocked me for disagreeing with them and for expressing an opinion "too far to the right" or horror of horrors- defending Prez Trump. To those people that defriend people for their opinions I want you to know that I feel sorry for you for living such a shallow, narrow minded, uninteresting life in an echo chamber. This is a free country, if you want controlled thought then move to China, Venezuela, Cuba or North Korea. In those countries there's never a contrary thought because if it comes up that thought goes to prison along with the human thinking it."

In My Humble Opinion !

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Argument for a Convention of States- Part 4 of 4 - Pigs at the Trough

By Chuck Marshall 

                                                        "Mad King George"- Hard at Work 

     So, what's to be done ?    Hopefully the previous three parts of this blog have outlined the problem of federal government that's out of control and the many consequences of such power.  The 50 states have the ability to remove a lot of that power,  especially the power to spend but also the power to legislate within each state according to the tastes and customs of each state.    Why do we have laws preferred in California applied to the citizens of Georgia if the people of Georgia are offended by that law ?   We're 50 separate states for a reason.   In fact, the advantages of spending and laws springing from the state level would be an opportunity to truly visualize what works and what doesn't work for the governing of our people.   A convention of states would allow the most peaceful and effective way to drive power out of Washington, DC and back closer to the American people.  Best of all,  there's no work to be done to set up this "day of jubilee".    There's  no need for revolution,  or civil war,  or riots in the streets until our leaders hear our demands.  It's already in the constitution under Article 5.  

      There are many ideas for Amendments to hold power in check at the federal level.  An organization exists for moving forward on the Convention of States and they have a list of tentative objectives for the first Convention.    The link to their organization and it's list of objectives is at the end of this blog.  This is not the only idea 'nor the final decision because Article 5 is owned by the people not any one organization.  But we need a path to go, so if it be this particular one then so be it.   The COS Action has the most established track for what this blog is elaborating on.   It's a start.  As Winston Churchill famously said "It is not the end, it is not the beginning of the end, but it is perhaps the end of the beginning".  

     The "powers that be" at the federal level of government , corporate and special interest  (ie, "Mad King George") will argue all day against such a thing.  Indeed I'm sure they would love to delete Article 5 altogether.   Remember, it's not just our government leaders but all those who benefit from unlimited trillions of dollars.    The fact is,  our Congress is a tool of all the pigs that feed at the trough of American bounty.   This idea, the COS,  threatens the smooth path to legislation that the special interests (think litigation legislation, medical legislation, corporate, etc...) have become so wealthy and comfortable with.   Moreover, these multi- national corporate interests are owned and operated by people and groups who are not necessarily interested in American liberty and justice.   You see, the corporate multinationals would  no longer have an easy path to legislation that favors them.  Why not ?   Because our leaders are no longer "for sale" if reelection is limited to one or two terms.  Imagine, they can actually start doing their job !  The media detests this idea because the power will no longer be cradled in Washington, DC but will be as significant in the state capitals making their job much harder and of much less influence.  Importantly, remember, the media giants are all owned by large multinational corporations who are beholden to a lot of things, but not the American people.   They will shriek ; "This will ruin us".   It will ruin them,  is what they mean.  "Mad King George" fears for his head, and he should.  

     Take the time to glance at the COS website below and join or contribute if you feel strongly enough.  The people must get their power back and that will only happen if real decisions tend to be made at the local level not the federal level.  The future of our children, grandchildren and all of posterity depend on it.  

https://conventionofstates.com/

In My Humble Opinion.  CM 

Restoring American Democracy, Part I Introduction January 1, 2013

We Americans have accomplished much in our history.  We established the world's first true Democracy, we invented the light bulb, the telephone, recorded sound, the Airplane.  We were the first to harness electricity, mass produced the automobile,  made home computers a reality, and created the world wide web.  We liberated  Europe form the Nazis, the Pacific rim from imperial Japan, and Eastern Europe from the Soviet Union.  This is a very brief account of all the many great things our country has accomplished.  That being said, I  have one question.  Why do we have such a lousy government?   

We deserve better.

I started a series of blogs back in July titled "Intelligent Government, an Oxymoron?".  I used a question mark out of respect for the possibility that that is not always true, but really I should probably just drop the question mark.  As it stands, "Beam me up Scotty, there is no Intelligent Life Here".     I'd like to review  these blogs in the next few weeks and proceed from there with ideas that might work to fix the day to day idiocy of our government.

It seems like everyone is sitting and standing around watching how bad Washington has gotten, and EVERYONE agrees  it is not working, but nobody has any ideas to fix this mess.   Why not?  I assume most people feel  "you can't change the system", but I disagree.  We are still a Democracy, the power is still with the people if they seize it.   If the Czechs could have a Velvet Revolution with very little blood spilled to overthrow the authoritarian Communists, surely we can engage in some sort of exercise to remove the bad governing processes as they work now in order to have an efficient wise government .  We don't need an actual revolution because the bones of good government are already in place thanks to George Washington,  John Adams,  Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and all the other brilliant founding fathers of our country.  What we need is a significant change.  A re-set to a government that works for the people, not for the money, not for the power and NOT for a political party.  

Many people who read this will say "impossible", to which I reply that it was also impossible for rebel colonies in the 1780's to throw out the most powerful army in the world at that time... but they did it anyway.