For the Strength of our Nation

    Both sides too often consider that they have the corner on the for good ideas. They don't see their own holes in their arguments and plans and when they get the opportunity they try to cram weak, foolish, and near tyrannical legislation. Is this the way that things should be?

    The answer to the above question is a resounding no! Yet who is to blame for so low a state that we are in? The answer us the American people we are the ones to blame for so poor a job we have done in governing ourselves. For too long we have been content with what was. We became complacent and we failed to examine out lives and ourselves. We took material goods as a sign that we are a favored people. However once those goods were taken from us we became a straw man.

   It is time for the American people to wake up and ask the big questions on government. They should ask what they can do for this country not what this country can do for them.

    America rise up and shake of the chains that bind you. Today my readers look back on the history of America. Look back to our patriots and remember there sacrifice. Consecrate this day to that sacrifice. Dedicate your lives today to changing the political sphere in your community and your nation. It is only through active and engaged citizenry that a nation can be changed. Today is our time middle of the road Americans. Today is the only time we have for tomorrow is as yet unknown and yesterday has passed us by. The coming storm can be abated if we act united in our purpose.

    We are the nation!

I'm Done

    You read that right I am done! No not with this blog with both current parties. This recent debt battle proves one thing and one thing only about our current leaders; they are all children! For whatever reason we as a people have lost the ability to find good leaders within our current political parties. Now I ask you why? Why have we lost the ability? The answer is simple the parties in an effort to gain political support stopped looking to the ever fluxing middle of the road Americans to the more hardline extreme wings. Why did they do this? What could have possibly possessed them to entertain such insanity? Ah yes it's because the middle of the roaders tend to have little to no party loyalty. Because of this simple fact the nuts have taken over.

    With this quiet subtle take over our political process has become something of a joke where legislation must be ram roded through to appease the primary and convention goers. Now the people who could once be persuaded to vote their conscience, rather than their party, are being dissuaded to go to the polls because who is there left to vote for that will represent them? I tell you there is no one both parties fore go the good of the nation for the good of the party. The future be damned! Power is what matters! This system will destroy the nation!

    The question is then how do we save the nation. The solution is simple to explain but difficult to carry out. A new party must come. The current parties are too diseased and unchanging to allow for an internal change no the change must come from an external pressure. My friends it is time for us the silent middle to speak out once more. The work we have is long but we must do it. We must do it for the sakes of future generations! We must do it for us!

On Leadership part II

    Salus populi suprema lex. I first came across this term when I was reading John Locke's Second Treatise on Government. The phrase is Latin and translated it means the good of the people is the supreme law. About ten minutes before I started writing this post I read an interesting article. The article I read was concerning an illformed pact to protect marriage. Now I want to clarify that I think that marriage is between one man and one woman. That is not the issue nor is it the point. The point is that this pact was so poorly made that it forced law makers into a corner that they could not get out for fear of breaking this contract. This and another pact made to never raise taxes seem to be an indication of a terrible direction. That direction is supporting causes so wholeheartedly that the good of the people is sacrificed for the good of the cause.

    The good of the people must be taken into consideration. Now when I say the people I do not mean the voters nor your supporters. I mean the entire population for which you as an elected leader are responsible for. This would, of necessity, require the elected official to forgo his agenda or his party's agenda to bolster the general populace of the United States. Sometimes a program or theory doesn't work the way it is expected to. So rather helping it harms. The only thing to be done then is to change opinion and action for the good of the people! This is not flip-floppery neither is it conviction flim-flammery. No, this is a reasoned and well thought out approach. This is the course that a leader must take in order to help his or her nation.

   To illustrate let's look at a basic everday life problem. Say your TV is broken and won't turn on. You've checked the plugs and all the other cords and all are connected yet there is still no picture. How many times would you go through the process before you say, "Stupid pos is broken guess I better go buy a new one." For me it takes like three times before I realize that yes the TV is broken and yes I need a new one. However if we acted like our politicians do we would sit stubbornly in front of the TV pretending that blank screen was playing the Super Bowl...in July.

    Why do they do this? To win political points with the delegates. This is insanity at its finest and such a practice needs to be halted. The question is how?