The Best Remembrance Would Be a Look At Ourselves
September 14th, 2006 | by Omnipotent Poobah |Five years ago this week, the US was a relatively peaceful place. The country was taking a breather after a protracted impeachment scandal, a bruising Presidential campaign, and a Supreme Court decision to settle the recent election. In his short time in office, George Bush had faced few big issues and the ones he did face - like stem cell research - he dealt with in a hesitant manner that left detractors and supporters alike feeling unsatisfied. When he appeared in public he often looked uncomfortable, like a little boy wearing his father’s too-large suit. Bush was a President still in search of an agenda and it seemed as though he might just spend the rest of his term looking for one.
Then, came September 11, 2001.
His reaction to the news of the attacks was one of shock and immobility. He would say later that he hadn’t immediately left the elementary school classroom he was visiting for fear of startling the children. The jokes about this reaction would last for years.
Other than some hastily-called press conferences during the trans-continental shell game to keep him safe from unknown dangers, he said little and was unconvincing in calming the nation. The nation needed a strong leader and Bush wasn’t giving much of a hint that he would rise to the challenge.
But after the dust settled a bit, Bush made his way to Ground Zero. There, he climbed atop the rubble, and with flags flying and firemen cheering, gave the speech of his political life. He told the country that the death of these thousands of people would be avenged. He spoke in a manner that was both calming and unifying. In response, Americans felt a bond they’d not felt in many years. A wave of patriotism swept the country and flags sprouted like wildflowers in springtime, while people turned to family and friends for comfort. It was one of those rare moments when a true leader can seize the day and do tangible good for their countrymen.
Not long after the attacks, and based on solid intelligence, the US invaded Afghanistan. If there can be such a thing, it was the right war at the right time. Public support was solidly behind Bush and the nation looked forward to seeing their enemies vanquished and their country returned to some semblance of normalcy.
But, flush with his success in Afghanistan, Bush decided to go one further and invade Iraq. The justification was wiping out the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and a strongly implied connection between Iraq and Osama bin Laden - both misconceptions the administration continues to feed even today.
In the run-up to the war, the administration focused on dubious intelligence. They rushed along, not willing to wait for a true coalition - similar to his father’s during the first Gulf War - to form. Members of the administration suggested that countries unwilling to go along were “old Europe” and implied a cowardice on their part. They accused anyone daring to question them of being treasonous. Legislators allowed themselves to be cowed by the headlong rush, signing off on the war without giving it proper examination.
The first cracks in the near-universal support in the immediate aftermath of the attacks began to appear. After a brilliantly executed invasion, Saddam was deposed, but things began to deteriorate quickly. First pot shots from insurgents were the order of the day. Then, the creation of an independent Iraqi government suffered setback after setback (as it does today). As events on the ground got worse, the administration’s drumbeat of rhetoric and spin increased.
Today, we’re a nation more deeply divided than we were at the end of an election many people felt had been stolen. The only thing uniting the country these days is an overwhelming desire to attack one another. We’ve become only a slightly more civilized version of the sectarian violence that is destroying Iraq.
Our original goal to beat back terror is heavily damaged. Afghanistan, once the bright spot in the war on terror, is now mentioned only in connection with a resurgence of the Taliban and the still missing Osama bin Laden. Much of the important work of making the nation secure is still not done. Many people believe our sideline adventure into Iraq has not only sapped our military’s strength, but is creating more terror than it drives away.
We are a nation adrift without a steady hand on the rudder. Our politicians fight each other tooth and nail. Our airwaves are filled with screaming matches between irreconcilable and opposing viewpoints. We can’t stop arguing long enough to accomplish the ordinary business of government because of all the rancor.
And our leaders’ response is more spin, more faulting anyone who disagrees, more empty flag waving, and endless obfuscation.
In this week of remembrance for those victims of the viscous attacks, it would be instructive to look at ourselves rather than at what the victims lives might have been. If we are true in our vision, we will see we disgrace their memory. We will see we spend too much time fighting phantom enemies and amongst ourselves to do much about those who killed them. Those innocent people deserve much more than that from their countrymen. They deserve a nation that remembers them with honor and reacts with valor to the damage done to them and their families. They and their families deserve to know that they didn’t die completely in vain.
I find myself sickened this week at what our proud nation has become. I’m profoundly disturbed by the changes to the country the victims left behind. I find myself wondering if they returned from the grave whether they would recognize the nation they left behind on that clear September morning. I find myself ashamed that we have cheapened their memory so easily and completely.
We still need a leader who can stand atop the pile of rubble and rally the country to the cause. A true leader who acts with the same integrity of the words he speaks.
I’m just hoping one comes along soon.
Cross Posted at The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks!
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37 Responses to “The Best Remembrance Would Be a Look At Ourselves”
By Dusty on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Bravo Poobie..I can only add that we need to insure the workers that put themselves in harms way after the fall of the towers to recover the victims, are taken care of medically. There were 40,000 of them. This issue should also be non-partisan.
As for the Shrub, he is merely the mouthpiece..its his puppeteers that should be ashamed.
By Herman B Hayes on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
What an excellent piece of writing. I agree with you so much, especially about the level of rancor making the day to day governance of America nearly impossible.
By anaveragepatriot on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Poobah & Dusty
We have different agendas than Bush. What is failure to us has been success to him because he will sacrifice anyone and everyone to follow his agenda. Dusty is right but look at this and you will see we have all been used for the beginning for a reason and it isn’t to fight terrorism.
Mideast leaders view Iraq war as disaster: Too late,the entire middle east is, by Bush’s design!
U.N.. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said leaders of Middle Eastern nations believe the Iraq war has “been a real disaster” for the region.
His comments to reporters on Wednesday came after a two-week trip through the Middle East and on a day when separate bomb attacks killed at least 22 people in Baghdad.
“Honestly, most of the leaders I spoke to felt the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath has been a real disaster for them,” Annan said. “They believe it has destabilized the region. Annan went on to describe “two schools” of thought — those who believe the United States should stay, “having created the problem, they cannot walk away,” and those, “particularly in Iran,” who “believe the presence of the U.S.” is a problem.
Annan said it is his opinion that “the U.S. has found itself in a position where it cannot stay and it cannot leave.” http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/13/iraq.main/index.html
They are right and it is for a reason. Both schools of thought are right. America is the problem and Bush must stay the course and for a reason they don’t know!
9/11 was Bush’s pearl harbor. Problem is, Bush is no FDR and has squirreled away any sympathy the world had for us.
As you may remember, Bush was looking for something to happen that would put the country and the world behind what he already had plans to do. 9/11 gave him that something.
He had plans right from the beginning to establish a new societal, middle east, and world order. That is why it was important to him to whip up a media and public fury which of course, he has done.
He then used the excuse of 9/11 to attack Iraq and unsettle the middle east so he could further his idea of a new middle east and world order. In doing so he guaranteed the loss of Afghanistan as well as Iraq and the entire middle east Of course lying all the while and whipping up as much support and frenzy as he could in the media and minds he controls.
At this point it behooves him to continue to ignore reality and continue to whip up a frenzy so he can continue staying the course in order to further prosecute his new middle east and world order.
We are all shamelessly being used so Bush can follow his plan for new order. http://www.anaveragepatriot.com/... I wrote this 3 years ago but it is more obvious today. Let me know what you think? I won’t get any deeper but it gets worse from here. Who knows what Iraq and Afghanistan will be like in a year or two? Plus I will guarantee you Bush will find an excuse to attack Iran so he can further his plans for the middle east and the world.
Any way you look at it Bush has screwed up and his new middle east order will happen but it is out of his control! Bush chose to ignore this as we have said many times with all other good advice so he could attack Iraq and start to implement his idea of a new middle east order. http://www.dailykos.com/...
It will proceed and he won’t admit it but it is out of his or anyone else’s control!
James Joiner
Gardner. Ma
http://www.anaveragepatriot.com
By manapp on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Even if the 9/11 attacks had been thwarted and the perps arrested, even if the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq had not have happened, the country would still be as divided. The left hated GWB even before the 2000 election. Not because he was GWB but because he was a Republican. The left was out for revenge on any Republican for the wrongs they perceived done to Clinton. The divided country is due to the loss of power by the Dems and the quest to gain it back at any cost. The endless rhetoric about the war, the economy, stem cell etc. is laced with lies the left hopes will persuade voters. Imagine if the war in Iraq had not happened. The left would be relentless in how GWB allowed a ruthless dictator with designs on harming Americans get past UN sanctions and strengthen his arsenal of WMD that everyone (Dems included) thought he had. Rational Americans can be thankful to have a President that does not listen to the political noise and takes a course he believes in. Right or wrong I would rather have a man of conviction at the helm than one who only cares what others think of him. You have Bill, who’s recent screams and threats aimed at ABC show that he is more concerned with how he is viewed by the public than the truth, and we have George who has made the tough choices to protect us even while some of his own people turn their backs on him.
By Dusty on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
You know all this for fact do you manapp? You make many assumptions but call them facts..so let me correct you on several..
I wanted the country to heal after the stolen election, so I gave the Shrub the benefit of the doubt. When he gave us his reasons for going into Afganistan, I said fine..I don’t like it, but if the Pres says we need to do it, so be it. The same goes for Iraq. Its when his plan started unraveling I turned on him. When the lies started creeping out, you know..the reasons for the occupation of Iraq, thats when I took a closer look at this man who purported to be the one to bring us all “together”.
Your friggin out there if you believe all that tripe you just wrote above me. The amount of truth in that docudrama could be put in a thimble..yet you actually paint it as truth..whos the fool now? And I love this line in your comment “Even while some of his own people turn their backs on him”.-get over yourself..you blindly follow this man that would rather bankrupt our country than admit he isn’t what he said he was? You are obviously one of the 35% that would follow him over a cliff..sad..so sad.
Since you have got a dime of common sense, or any idea how and why the left feels like it does..don’t try to assume and write about us..your so far off base its pathetic.
By liberal vet on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Bush or as I like to call him the master manipulator is a lying sack of shit. He has done little good for the country and listens to his advisors as if they were omnipotent and omniscient. Rove and company run the country. Big business is there main agenda. Furthering poverty and lack of health insurance among the populace, and increasing profits. Until he is defeated he will “stay the course” and more people will die. He makes me want to puke. I have no respect for him and his adherent followers who are deluded at best. LV
By ken grandlund on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Nicely done OP. Manaapp, thanks for illustrating the focus of this post so well.
By spook sniffer on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Nice article OP, but the core issue is “who should lead us out of this mess?”
I submit to you that at this point in American history, waiting for a “leader” to come along and “save” us is going to spell the end of the Great Experiment. If we want to keep this Republic, each and every one of us is going to have to act, because “Super Candidate” is not going to come along and save your a**es.
By Dusty on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
It has to start by clipping the Shrub’s wings and electing new representatives that do not rubber stamp every power grab made by the Decider-in-Chief. Once he becomes a lame duck, the cycle can be broken.
By anaveragepatriot on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Bush’s new world order has already failed and its horrible results are only beginning and will not end with his Presidency. Whoever has to clean up after him will have to try and pick up the pieces and will have to reimplement the draft to fight his wars.
As far as I’m concerned there is only one person that can help us out of this dark tunnel Bush has led us into. As of yet he has not declared he will run and I think it is up to “we the people” to call him for the job because we need him in 08. That is Al Gore!
By spook sniffer on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
You can vote all day long for “truly good, noble, non-rubber-stamping candidates”, but if your vote can be hacked, then what good have you really done?
By spook sniffer on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
“reimplement the draft” my ASS. We don’t HAVE to fight “Bush’s wars” just because he was stupid enough to get us INTO them.
“If a government cannot prove the accuracy and honesty of the elections by which they claim authority over the people, then the people are neither legally nor morally obligated to obey that government’s dictates, nor to pay its bills.”
By anaveragepatriot on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Spook I agree, but by that definition my sons and grandchildren don’t have to pay his 2 trillion in future debt. I don’t think Bush has a legal leg to stand on as President, we didn’t elect him the courts did. but somehow we have let him get us in to one hell of a mess and it is just starting. As for fighting his wars, we will not have a choice if we still want to have a Republic once this gets going.
What Bush thinks he’s winning is just starting. I have 2 sons in this now and I have to believe the other 2 who are military age will be dragged into ths in the future. At that point I will go too if possiple. My time was Vietnam but I’m still breathing.
By spook sniffer on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
“by that definition my sons and grandchildren don’t have to pay his 2 trillion in future debt.”
Exactly.
If you aren’t responsible for it, then by extension, neither are your heirs.
By Jersey McJones on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Manapp,
If 9/11 hadn’t happened, GWB wouldn’t be president right now.
JMJ
By anaveragepatriot on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Spook
Yeah that makes sense. If they survive his wars put themselves in prison for refusing to pay his debt he incurred for the wars they fought, hmmm!
By spook sniffer on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
So as you can see, aap, you’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. Right?
So what would you suggest America’s soldiers and civilians do–continue to die for lies? Or should they die for something a bit more worthy?
Quoting another great patriot:
“better to die on your feet than to live on your knees…”
By anaveragepatriot on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Spook
Yeah I know! I just got off the phone with the son stationed in Cherleston. He makes his first flight tomorrow delivering helicopters to Savanah. So the fun begins. Anyway, I have been saying in many books now for years that we are in the same position we were in the last time we found it necesarry to come together and rebel. That as you know was the revolution.
First, an interesting note. When I was researching maybe my first book I found many interesting things. One was that it was our very problem of today in America that instigated the revolution and that is fundamentalism. It is perverted today and unduly influencing our government. Then they were rebelling against what they thought of as the ungodliness of the Brits. I won’t get any deeper than thet now.
Today, we are going to have to come together again but the problem is within. Nothing we say matters to Bush or will get anything done until we come together and take it to them in whatever form that masy be and enmasse. I don’t see that happening because there are many who still believe the idiots lies. Until someone comes forward to rally behind we have no choice but to continue dieing for lies.
Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! That’s right but I can’t begin to tell you how central that is to me. That invokes some serious memories in me. My sons were brought up that way and I always told them It you get in a fight and don’t kick ass I will kick your when you get home. Today they are getting ready for combat. I don’t know if I did the right thing or not?
I have to laugh! Maybe when they get home they’ll kick mine?
By Froenx on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Interesting piece OP.
manapp.. what’s it like being a lemming? It’s quite obvious that you do not have a single independent thought in that black hole you call a brain.
What we need now is to figure out a solution to this problem. Talking about it is a good start. Now what we need to do is figure out what to do.
By Manny on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Jersey McJones,
Do you really believe that if 9/11 didn’t happen Bush wouldn’t still be president? Maybe if Jeb wasn’t Governor of Florida Bush wouldn’t be president. But since he did come into power, he would have still found a way to go to war in Iraq, and sitting Presidents during a war that run for re-election don’t lose.
By Jersey McJones on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Good point, Manny. Though it could be argued that the way things were going early on for Bush and the GOP, prior to 9/11, they wouldn’t have had the poltiical capital to get away with invading Iraq.
JMJ
By anaveragepatriot on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
JMJ
I saw Political Capital and remember bush’s insane belief that he had some and that is why he embarked on his goal to accomplish a new middle east order during his second term.
Dems say there’s no plan in Iraq, Yes there is! Stay the course but not for victory in Iraq, but to prosecute his new middle east order and world order he has to stay regardless of what anyone says.!
I don’t know where Bush thinks he had any political capitol in the first place but he figured he would spend his imaginary capitol on creating his new order. To achieve that, he has been honest and up front with nothing. In creating his new societal order Katrina of course is only one glaring example of ignoring the facts and there is a reason everyone forgets!. He has done everything possible to worsen the plight of the lower classes and to lower them even further.He is well on his way there too and the scary part is that he is not done yet.
9/11 whether you think it was allowed to happen or whatever, gave Bush the reason he needed to get the world behind his clandestine plan to implement his new middle east and world order under the impression by the rest of the world that we were fighting terror. We attacked Afghanistan as we should have that is where it should have stopped until or unless the so called terrorists opened up another front, not us! Bush used 9/11 as an excuse to attack Iraq, unsettle the middle east, and start his idea of new middle east order.
Along the way Bush has used the so called war on terror to supply those chosen by Bush with nuclear knowledge supposedly to combat the war on terror. While at the same time, stepping on those who do not like or agree with his fascism and form of Imperialism, thus enabling him to prosecute his plan for new world order.
Thus he has unsettled the entire middle east and set the stage for his new middle east and world order. All the while trying to make you and the world think he has attempted Diplomacy but has been victimized by Nationalist uncompromising desires of others. All the while they are his and his underhanded politics of deceit and it just continues to work for him. What the hell is wrong with us?
As you see and hear from this asinine rhetoric and misrepresentation of the obvious facts, the goal is to stay the course in Iraq but for a reason everyone seems to forget. He wanted a new middle east order and Iraq was his start. I told you he had to create disorder before he can replace it with his new order. It is well on its way.The scary part is that he is also doing it in America and around the world. http://www.anaveragepatriot.com/....
I hope this puts things into perspective
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/5/101220/9964 JMJ
By spook sniffer on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
“Until someone comes forward to rally behind…”
Take a good, long look in the mirror.
“…we have no choice but to continue dieing for lies.”
Oh, yes, each and every one of us has a choice. We just have to decide whether or not we are worthy of making it.
To sit around and wait for someone to lead you out of this is useless. If you want this to change, YOU are going to have to change it.
“Voting” is not the answer, not in its’ current format. “Absentee ballots”: a wonderful alternative, as long as you can prove yours was actually counted.
By Jersey McJones on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Exactly. Aside from being a wonderful tool of fear, the “War on Terror” is just a ruse to install the American Capitalist Hegemon on the Middle East - which goes a long way toward explaining the reticence of Europe and Asia to get behind it (as opposed to the insanely moronic, idiotic, stupid notion that somehow these powers were “bought off” by measely little Saddam Hussein!) .
JMJ
By anaveragepatriot on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Spook
If that is for me I meant that we are stuck into fallowing the law for now. I am doing my damnedest to get spmething going. Voting is not the answer because our politicians are self interested and not concerned about the average American. No one is sitting around I send 25 or 50 letters per day to Congress, the Senate, all media I can contact, amd many political activists and interests who want to see a change and are lobbying to achieve that. I will do whatever it takes to see the right thing done for America and the average American.
We the people are not even a thought today. Our Government of the people, for the people, by the people, facilitated by society. Has in fact become a government of the politicians, for the affluent, by the legal system, facilitated by the media. we must start changing this, this fall, we can’t take much more of this and be a viable society as we wanted to pass on to our children and then there is what he has done to the middle east and the world.
By spook sniffer on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
“If that is for me I meant that we are stuck into fallowing the law for now.”
Yes, it was, and no, we aren’t, not if you’re willing to start engaging in some **peaceful** civil disobedience.
If your vote doesn’t count anymore, then THAT is what it is GOING TO TAKE. I agree with many of your principles, but again, I take issue with the notion that we can “vote” our way out of this, during “this fall” or any other.
By Dusty on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Speaking of peaceful disobedience..United for Peace and Justice is planning just that since the NY Police Dept refuses to give them a permit for Bush’s visit to the UN on Sept 19th.
By anaveragepatriot on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Dusty
I get very peeved to put it nicely, the way they protect that spineless worm. He should be subject to the reality of his errorrs. He shoud reap what he sows. I hate this!
By Dusty on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Well, its time for the civil disobdience and UFPJ is going to do it. I just wish I could be there, its been over 30 years since I did one of those..
By anaveragepatriot on Sep 14, 2006 | Reply
Dusty
I agree but nothing will change as long as Bush is in there or his screwed up Rove’s attitude prevails. Mass millions of us have got to get motivated and activated before anything will happen if ever. The 70’s are just a memory i’m afraid. I am certainly making myself heard and must be becoming a public nusance but they are good at ignoring reality.
By spook sniffer on Sep 16, 2006 | Reply
“Mass millions of us have got to get motivated and activated before anything will happen”
That’s right. WE will ALL have to get motivated, and that does not involve waiting for “someone” to come along and “lead us out of it”.
And repeating mantras like “the 70s are just a memory” and “they are good at ignoring reality”, while true on their face, only fosters discouragement.
Please try to stay focused, positive, and worthy of yourself and your Constitution. You’re the only one who can do it for you.
By Omnipotent Poobah on Sep 16, 2006 | Reply
Well, THAT was a refreshing little exchange.
As the original poster, the only thing I’d add is that I’d never advocate anybody “wait” for someone to come save them. When I talked about hoping a leader would come along, I was really referring to the fact that there’s pretty poor pickin’s out there now and if there isn’t a viable candidate, you can’t vote for one.
However, you can promote those you think would be good candidates, but I’m afraid I haven’t seen anyone yet who qualifies for me. Meanwhile, I make it my business to speak out and hold the ones already in office accountable and applaud anyone else, regardless of party, who does the same.
By anaveragepatriot on Sep 16, 2006 | Reply
OP Spook
I’m not sure but I think that was for me. Likewise I am not sitting back. I am doing my share. It is just that I also do not see anyyone with the visibility to pick up the mantra and rally us. I will never stop but I am afraid I will not do it. To me the only man is Gore and we have to cry out for him as being our man or he isn’t going to try another run.
My reference to the 70’s was that you could rally then and you would be pead attention to. Bush has learned from Rove’s that you can ignore what the masses think as long as you have your core, the voting masses behind you. That I have to hope is what Bushco is losing as they too see the reality of this guys ignorance.
By Manny on Sep 17, 2006 | Reply
Poobah, I have two candidates I’d like to see in 2008. Bayh, and Warner. The numbers say Hillary could easily win the nomination, but she has no chance of winning the election. Other front-runners Kerry, Gore, and Edwards would also come up short against McCain, Giuliani, or Rice.
By spook sniffer on Sep 18, 2006 | Reply
“you can promote those who you think would be good candidates”
HOW?
The last time there was an “official Presidential Debate”, some of the candidates were FORBIDDEN to participate. One of them was the Libertarian Candidate, Michael Badnarik (another was the Constitution Party candidate, I believe)
If LEGAL CANDIDATES are not allowed to participate in the entire process, then HOW are these candidates supposed to promote themselves, let alone get others to support them?
To me, the League of Women Voters (who I believe sponsored this nonsense) should never be allowed to sponsor such a debate again. NO ORGANIZATION using “arbitrary opinion” to pick participants should EVER be allowed to broadcast or sponsor such a charade. ALL CANDIDATES LEGALLY ON A BALLOT should have been a part of that debate. Until that happens, the process is corrupted up-front (the chat about the corrupted balloting is for another thread).
If you believe the flapdoodle being peddled that “well, it was pointless to have them there, they weren’t going to win anyway”, I’ve got some oceanfront property in Arizona I can sell ya…
By spook sniffer on Sep 18, 2006 | Reply
“you could rally then and you would be paid attention to”
That’s right–protestors weren’t relegated to unconstitutional “free speech zones” then, were they?
I hope none of you are waiting for SuperCandidate to come along. ‘Cuz that isn’t going to happen. Anyone who has gumption, ability and smarts wouldn’t be stupid enough to play along with the present charade. And it is a charade.
By spook sniffer on Sep 18, 2006 | Reply
And what moron has determined that “Hillary!” could “easily win the nomination”? Only someone who wants to keep the Repuglicrats in “power”, that’s who.
Do you see yet the games that are being played against the American people? I don’t know one person that thinks Hillary Clinton is viable enough to do ANYTHING but go back to Arkansas and sit her ass in a federal pen for the roles she played in Whitewater, the Vince Foster murder, and MENA.
Until the manipulation–of the American people, their loyalties, their love of country and their votes–stops, we have lost our Republic. Nothing short of “revolution” is going to change it now, it’s been going on for far too long with no consequences.
Whether the revolution is “peaceful” or “violent” is up to us. But playing the game by the current Federal Government “rules” is going to get us NOWHERE. Sorry, I’ve been blogging, emailing, sending letters, campaigning and speaking out on politics for over 20 years. I’ve never seen a citizenry so ignored as we are being ignored now. And we’re being ignored BECAUSE there are no consequences.