Letters to the People #1
To my fellow Americans,
For far too long I have sat lazily by and have not said or done anything as I should and for that I am ashamed and sorry. The lack of my action….although, I find is not unusual among common people and as with most common people I have felt helpless to a point. Still yet this inaction is largely the reason that we have the struggles that we now face in our country. I have voiced my dissatisfaction, ideas and thoughts only to friends, family, coworkers, and in other small social interactions. Although, many times others encouraged me in the past to get involved, I didn’t feel so inclined to do so. I voted, yet in voting felt forced to choose from preselected aristocrats whom I felt truly knew nothing of the common struggles faced by the common citizen. As a common citizen I believed that there was little that I could do; and that I was not adequately qualified to take any action myself. Ben Franklin said, “….if you can keep it.” Keep what? The Republic….Who was he talking about in saying, “…you…”? I believe it was the citizens….us. For years I have prayed, hoped and held out for someone else to do what only someone like me, a commoner could do. So, why someone like me and why a commoner? For throughout history such change as is needed came from a spark in the heart of an unlikely common man or woman. Remember Rosa Parks…….Martin Luther King Jr….even many of our founders were not political leaders prior to the movement towards independence. For many years I sat and did nothing, but then there came a day when something deep inside of me said, “You must!” I have no doubt that our forefathers heard the same voice from deep within themselves and in answering the call founded this great country. The corrupt and hyper-partisan politics has gone on for far too long. We see the corruption that is in our government from the local level all the way to the federal level…..but what about what we don’t see?
The aristocrat fears us and rightfully so because of the power of our numbers. They have tried to convince us that a third party would defeat our purpose and have been successful. Turning us against each other with hyper-partisan politics causing a division of the one thing that they fear the most….the power of the vote unified in a third party. Now that we are divided so greatly they have little fear of a strong third party. But I for one believe in the people of this great land to answer the call. They the aristocrats are wise, educated and knew this could happen so they have played an illusionist’s game of distraction. They have pitted us against each other in a battle of extremes on issues that have little or nothing to do with the real truth of peril we face, and they don’t care about the cost to us the citizen. Thus they have distracted us from their actions on both sides of the extreme, while changing America into something that was not the hopes, dreams or plans of our forefathers.
To bark loud and yet never bite… makes you just a nuisance not a watch dog. Now is the time, if ever there was to take action as a citizen….each and every one of us. If we don’t take action we will be politically caged.
Today as I write is the fourth of July the day that we celebrate the signing of our Declaration of Independence. Today is a sobering day for me as I think about at the current state of our Union and fight tears of heartbreak over what we have become and the path that we are on. I cry tears of sorrow for those that will follow for the burden they will bear. I also think that surely they will curse us for our lack of action as citizens and be ashamed of us their forefathers for are lack of courage. I am regretful as a citizen that I have by my inaction and mislead beliefs been a part of the peril we and many generations hence will face and endure. I for one will not be known by my children, my grandchildren and great grandchildren as a failure. Sure a failure I will be if I sit idly by spending my time play video game, watching TV or finding some other diversion while my country falls apart. I humbly ask that each of you that read this and the following letters that I will write to survey your life and heart. Have you like me sat idly by or been persuaded to the left or right and as a result been by simple passiveness or persuasion a part as I have? Have you been an active participant but yet in your participation found contempt of the other side and feel that the more you fight the more the other side hates you? It is time to explore ourselves and unite in our common goals as they the aristocrat make war against each other let us make peace among ourselves and reclaim our country. Our diversities although many, are the very reason we should be united. If you don’t understand how that could be then please, continue to follow what I will write to you. Let us put away our differences, sacrifice some of our TV time, our party time, our game time, to spend time socially through any means to share the news of hope. It is only by the means of be united was our country founded and only by this means can we preserve it.
Only in keeping with the path of our founders will the security of our freedom remain guaranteed by our constitution. There is only one way to change the course of this country and that is to change the way it is and has been governed. There is only one way to do that and that is with a strong third party, a party of the people, by the people and for the people. Unlike any other party this will be a party that truly does represent the people as a collective. Yes, all of us….liberal, conservative, Christian, atheist, gay, socialist, republican, democrat….all colors, ethnicities, religions, and on and on. How can this be? Follow what I have to say with open minds and hearts and I will explain in a series of letters to you. I call to you today to join me as I will with you form a real people’s party.
John Commoner
04JUL2011
