I Am Becoming Embarrassed For My Country As A Veteran

[dotymed]

8. I have read many books about the perversion of America.

Realizing that our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution were written by wealthy land and slave owners does help me realize how we have become an international pariah. However, our constitution does make it clear that we had the opportunity to become something great.
Having just read "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," (2004) it became obvious how we have become the corptocracy that we are. World history is all about the triumph of greed over morality. Our constitution did give us a choice to change this paradigm. Unfortunately, we kept the elite as our leaders. In so doing, we guaranteed the path of empire.
Fortunately written into our Constitution is a "do over" card. Since we cannot get a real populist on our ballot, which forces us to repeatedly choose the lesser of two evils, I don't see an alternative to playing this "card."
Our military (just like the country we succeeded from) operates to enforce empire and corporate agenda's.
Only if our citizens throw their blinders off, can we hope to become "for and by the people." Peacefully is the hope, yet we know the power that the elite wields and uses indiscriminately. It definitely is not becoming better.