January 17, 2019
This shutdown of our government, Our Commons, is the result of a virulent phenomenon known as the failure of political representatives to follow through on their promises to the People when they are running for office. And I might add, for the People to hold them to account for failing in those promises.
Trump promised to build a wall and get the Mexican government to pay for it. He couldn’t keep that promise so he lays the blame on the Democrats and shifts the costs to the American Taxpayer. The quintessential CON. He is now holding hostage 800,000 American Workers, and their families, by denying them the means to feed and care for the families and their essential household expenses.
He couldn’t bully the Democrats in the Congress to foot the bill for his “failure to deliver.” And Republicans who see the writing on the wall and are hearing it loudly from their constituents, with the awareness of future elections hanging out there and how this egregious abuse of power by the leader of their party will affect their future employment, are threatening behind close doors to break ranks and serve their electors.
One petulant, spoiled rich, man-boy is reaping the consequences of his own failure to follow through on his centerpiece promise as a presidential candidate. And it may be the beginning of the American People finally taking back the Their Own Power in our Democracy. Far too long many of us activists have listened to the rationalizations of the majority who say that there is nothing they can do to change anything, So, in fact, THEY DO NOTHING. And nothing changes.
When is the Anger and the Feeling of Impotence going to swell towards a critical mass and manifest itself in a “going to the streets” as recently been done in France with the Yellow Vests Movement? With our political system broken and functioning only for the highest bidder, Democracy is best served and re-generated by grass roots, on the ground, in the streets ACTION, characterized by positive, non-violent demands for Service to the People.
Wake up, America. Entering your poll station and casting your ballot and returning to our perceived states of helplessness, as candidates turned representatives greasily skate around keeping their electoral promises, is no more.
Now is the moment to try something new. We have been scammed far too long by the illusion that through voting, ON THEIR TERMS, we will be democratically served. We’ve been scammed.
The only thing our Corporate Handlers will understand will be the People’s rallying in the streets and “Doing Democracy”, not letting it endlessly trickle down the pants legs of the One Percent, and their chosen president at this point in our history, The Tangerine Haired Buffoon in the White House.
