At the federal level, I see all three branches of government being non-responsive to the people. We once protested against "taxation without representation". Well, now we have representatives, but they seem to ignore us -- so how is our situation improved? They just represent themselves.
There is hope at the state level, but even there, no state has passed a law requiring that a presidential candidate prove his eligibility. I am amazed that this has not happened anywhere. I just don't know what to think.
The feds own the states because they can threaten to cut off funding.
The hope at the state level only comes from the people themselves, through ballot initiatives. Lawmakers at every level have betrayed us.
What really hurts us is the media being threatened by Soros. That makes even groups such as the Tea Party unwilling to stick their necks out for this issue, thinking it will negate their real influence on things like fiscal sanity. So in large part we’re not even talking about groups working to do what is necessary. It comes down to individual people who will be willing to collect petition signatures even while the media mocks them.
This poll suggests that if we could find people to go door to door we may find a lot of people willing to sign a petition. The difficulty is finding people who are already working hard to take care of their families who can and will invest the time to collect those signatures.
Nebraska had a sourpuss senator, Diana Schiemek, who was ousted by a ballot initiative creating term limits, who flipped off the people of Nebraska on her way out by passing a law to make it very, very difficult to get a ballot initiative passed.
We’ve all been trusting the system to work. It doesn’t. It is utterly broken. If anything is going to happen it will have to be done by people who know it is up to them, that they are the only ones who can save this country, and there is a short window of time where we can even do that. If we don’t have the willpower to do that, this country will die because of apathy, even after the biggest landslide in American history, preceded by unprecedented numbers of Americans calling and writing their lawmakers on multiple instances. Activism that in any way depends on lawmakers is wasted effort at this point, with a few exceptions (such as walker in WI, although we’ll see if one corrupt judge can overturn everything the people have worked so hard for there). Unless we are willing to channel that energy to productive methods such as state ballot initiatives, this nation will go down without a fight.