And this is why the American people are going to have to awaken from their apathetic state if we hope to remain a country with a representative form of government that does the will of the people instead of the will of the large corporations or lobbyists. We are also going to have to be willing to hold those politicians accountable for the national laws they break as they go about trying to use this country as a springboard for their own personal gain.
As I read this story I just sat back and had to shake my head about what WE THE PEOPLE have let America be turned into. We are responsible for letting the government intrude into our daily lives by letting them feel that we need them for every little thing. Americans seem to want someone else to do everything for him or her and to never want to do anything for him or herself. I wonder what the previous generations of Americans who fought and died to give us what we have would think if they could see what we have allowed this country to turn into.
I went to our capital over the weekend and I went into the National Archives where I saw the originals of the documents that founded this nation. I felt the power of the words like never before when I saw the actual signatures of men like Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the signatures of men like George Washington on the United States Constitution. These men did not look on these documents as some abstract idea the way we seem to do today. No, these men had a blood stake in these documents. Washington fought at Valley Forge in order to bring the freedom and independence that we have today. He shed blood and put forth great effort to bring about the ideals of freedom that we today so freely take for granted even if we care about them at all.
All Americans are going to have stop their whining about what the government owes them and they are going to have to start watching what the elected officials do so that we may ensure that we do not let despots and megalomaniacs pervert our nation into a totalitarian regime that serves only them. The nation does not owe anyone anything as much as it has the potential to give if you are willing to work to get it. Yes, there have been some dark moments in the history of this nation and we cannot go back to change what has happened but we can start tearing down these imaginary barriers from between us. These barriers are a very effective device designed to let the people who are concerned only with their own agenda keep us at each others throats while they are taking everything that your forefathers meant for you to have.
Americans are going to have realize that the two political parties in power today are not there for the benefit of Americans but they are there for the benefit of the party. If you really watch what they do and listen to what they say then you would see that. I still believe the majority of Americans are in the middle of the extremes and the parties now in power are attempting to portray themselves as the champion of either extreme.
Well, America, I suggest that you wake up and realize that we do not need another political party or politician to allow us to have what they think we need. It is time for all Americans to stop the downward spiral we have allowed to happen in this country and to start working together to fix the problems that confront us. Our constitution not only gives us the right to do so but it expects nothing less.
