POST YOUR GOAL FOR OUR NATION ON MOVEON.ORG

Below is what I posted today.

The Sleeping Nation

The United States seems to be a country of Sleeping Citizens, who are more content to leave the decision-making up to the (supposedly) elected officials who ‘know more’ than average Americans are supposed to know. This is also the pretext under which National Security Agendas have grown to such a proportion that our rights have been slowly ebbing away, without making us any safer in the process.

It seems to me the greatest goal MoveOn.org has is to find ways to wake the citizenry up to their dormant power and educate them about how the abdication of this power has literally turned this country from a Democracy into an Oligarchy.

This education should start with a reminder of the definition of these words we ‘bandy’ about so easily without thought:

“DEMOCRACY: A form of government in which political power resides in all the people and is exercised by them directly, or is given to elected representatives, with each citizen sharing equally in political privilege and duty and with his right to do so protected by free elections and other guarantees.

OLIGARCHY: A form of government in which power is restricted to a few.”
-Reader’s Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary

Unless organizations like MoveOn.org make it a Primary Mission to explain and illustrate exactly how we are being duped by the current Administration in a ways that gain widespread and sustained attention we can look forward to:

-The continued and needless death of servicemen and women at escalated rates, in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

-Further deterioration of the World Community’s Respect for America.

-A fear-based mentality where other nations see our actions and believe the only way to deal with a potential threat is the oxymoron of ‘Pre-emptive Self-Defense’

-Continuing to believe what our President and his Administration tell us, even in the light of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. (Can you say ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’?

-Dramatic and Devastating Terrorist attacks both here and abroad.

-Continued Bilking of the United States Economy by Oil and Energy barons within our country for profiteering purposes.

-Fewer Children graduating from elementary and secondary schools because of a sky-rocketing ‘drop-out’ rate – which makes the ‘No Child Left Behind’ numbers appear to look like progress.

-Continuation of Job Losses to the Global Market and the chance of increased inflation levels.

-The further dwindling of Free Media Pockets as companies like Clear Channel homogenize the news and information we receive on a regular basis. The richest players are the ones who dictate what news we are fed, making the 1st Amendment almost moot.

-Stolen Presidential Elections which only further weaken the already shaky resolve of voters who believe that their ‘vote doesn’t count, so why bother?’

-A society which increasingly looks more like the fundamentalist-leaning primitive groups which believe their way is the only way to salvation.

-The continued dwindling of basic human rights as well as the furtherance of the belief that ‘might ALWAYS makes RIGHT’.

-Faith-Based Initiatives which look more increasingly like ‘Fear Based Directives’.

It is hard to believe that 50% of a group of people, who absolutely believe in Democracy, as we profess to, are so BLIND to the death and destruction we have been visiting upon ourselves and populations half a world away in the name of ‘Democracy’, and the misguided belief that it somehow makes us safer.

Shame on Us!