What really is the DU community's attitude towards democracy? [View all]

[dfgrbac]

Browsing threads since the election, I see many folks here about to pop a mental cork because of the results. You are upset! I am with you; I am also upset. But ALL I see in the way of solutions is politics as usual here. My fellow citizens, our nation has endured a silent coup by corporate power. I know you are aware of this; I have seen you write about it. Politics as usual is not possible anymore. Any small level of democracy for us has been removed. We are officially now powerless! I am not talking about our elected representatives since they have done nothing but failed us since the Reagan Revolution. Democratic politicians have lost their desire to fight the Imperial Right Wing, apparently because they believe the distorted mass news media reports about our opinions shifting to the right. Let me remind you of the extremely profound statements about the military industrial complex President Eisenhower made in his final address as he left office.

I am sure you know this! But it is worth listening to again.

We truly have had a silent coup skilfully executed against us over many careful decades. What are our options after this overwhelming coup? After Eisenhower, the new President John F. Kennedy took Ike's message seriously. A couple of the things JFK did to fight against this corporate power grab were restarting the printing of money by the U.S. Treasury and promising to disperse the CIA. President Kennedy didn't make it through his first term. Read more in the book “JFK and The Unspeakable” by James W. Douglas.

What happened to President Kennedy shook Americans up as did 9/11/2001 many years later, but not enough to stop the military-industrial complex from its advance against us.

Will we, can we finally stand up to this attack? We can! We can do it by executing our Constitutionally guaranteed democratic rights as specified in our Bill of Rights. We can enact the National Initiative for Democracy!

Stop listening to Imperial propaganda against empowering the people through democracy. By now we should all know its just negative propaganda. Freedom requires empowering the people to determine their form of government.

The National Initiative for Democracy is a much more robust piece of legislation than the initiative laws we have in half of our states. It handles big problems right off the bat like campaign finance reform; corporate money is banned. What it does not do is replace our current government structure. What it does do is empower the people to make law in parallel with Congress creating essentially a forth branch of government. But it also does not allow sudden flurries of initiatives; it is well controlled.

I know, I know, the people are not ready for democracy. But they can be, and quickly. It's a matter of education. If we start voting on and supporting this legislation, The Democracy Foundation can gradually gain the funds needed for media educational information. Once we kick the ball down the hill, it will snowball.

As written by Something Fishy, most Americans actually agree on the big issues!