Does it petrify you that your job may be the next job outsourced to a third world country? Are you shocked that the men and women you voted into office approved the laws that gave the right to American corporations to greedily fill their coffers at the expense of the American worker?
Does it make you ill that lobbyists buy our legislators' vote? That their allegiance is to the almighty dollar? Do you feel as if you've been sold a bad bill of goods? Do you yearn for the days of whistleblowers, patriots, and men and women of conscience?
Are you terror-stricken that our republic as we know it is crumbling before our eyes? Or that dirty tricks, conspiracies, corruption, falsification, lies, cleverly scripted metaphors and plots have become business as usual in our houses of representation?
Where are the voices compelling our elected representatives to do the right thing? Have we become so self-involved in our daily lives, in making the mortgage payments and putting food on the table that we've lost sight of our very important rights of citizenry? If you've said yes to any these questions then you are part of a greater consciousness. You are among the growing number of American citizens who beg for change, who will no longer accept the status quo. So, what do we do?
If you are mad as hell and tired of taking this anymore then we need to ban together and in a collective scream oust every sitting elected official. Together and only if we come together in a single voice, can we send our message loud and clear to those in office, and those seeking office, that we are not going to sit idly by and allow our civil liberties, our inalienable rights, and our humanity to be mocked and abused?
It is time, actually, way past time, that we clean house. Elected office is not a gift; it's not a lifetime ticket to the best club in town. It is a profoundly important responsibility. A responsibility to do the right thing; to remove one's personal aspirations and inclinations and vote with a clear mind and conscience, with a worldly heart, and for the better good of all.
We need to send all our representatives home; the good and the bad; the baby with the bath water is the only way our message will be heard. It is time we took back our right of citizenry.
It is time we spoke our minds and reaffirmed that it is "we the people" who our elected officials are answerable to. Join me ï ¿ ½ let's start a bloodless revolution and let's begin with removing everyone from office and elect a new batch. And we'll do it over and over again until the message is clear.
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