It means everything BUT people have to be willing to use it as the founders intended. We The People are the most important element in what is called Checks and Balances in our government. We have to hold congress in check before we can expect any correction in the other two branches. Congress is the easiest place to bring about change and was made so by design.
Political activism works whether it is one person or 1,000,000 and it does cross party lines as we saw it happen in the late 1970's and 80's. I've been a lot more politically active than a lot of persons know. Not out of choice but rather necessity. I learned a lot of lessons. One of them is there are far worse things sometimes than losing a political race. Sometimes the party you support can be your worse enemy or rather the Executive Branch elected and the blind who follow due to warped party loyalties. My state had a major protest against a Republican governor who thankfully was term limited out. He nearly bankrupted both state treasury as well as nearly ruined the state health care system in the public sector. Go to my home page and click the Tennessee Tax Revolt threads or Tenn Care threads.
The GOP sold out but few realize just how far. Let's take Medicare reform. Bill Frist the hero of the GOP for his so called brilliant Medicare plan. Well he got his idea from Hillary Clinton and Al Gore. Sheeple in the GOP followed right behind him. The man sat on his hands for years while his state suffered the ill effects and it was within his and Fred Thompson's power to stop it by stopping federal funds.
LOL I've been so ticked before at my elected so called REPs on a state level I had them Freeped over one issue. I'll send you the link in private. Look the nonsense in DC will stop when the voice of the people say enough is enough. It may take something like the Tennessee Tax Revolt to do it? What was that? Simple. A bunch of angry citizens caused gridlock around the State Capitol when the issue was voted on or being debated. Horns blared and downtown Nashville was brought to a stand still. The result? No state income tax.
People also need to get over the idea the GOP is gonna save us all and all the Dems are gonna destroy us. Our governor is a DEM in his second term. He dares not mention a state income tax. He has not closed state facilities. He is a self proclaimed liberal but the man despite that runs the state more conservative than the previous two term RINO ever did or even Lamar Alexander who is nothing more himself than a big government shill.
We have the right to petition congress. That right is not exclusive to lobbyist. Actually paid career lobbyist should be banned until the day you, me, or anyone can access our elected in a face to face manner such as they can.
If the voting booth can't correct it then we were given the means of recourse by the founders themselves. Our nation has gone through such a process once since it's founding. It was started by a Republican actually who tossed the Constitution in the trash and nullified states rights. Yet good old Honest Abe's name brings standing ovations. Of course people educated in the Marxist dominated school bought into the history re-write as to cause and effect. But that's a subject for another thread.
If you can find it look into some of the essay's of Bill Lind or William Lind. Some can be found at Free Congress. He has been warning of a pending cultural war for nearly two decades. Lind is not some fringe nut either the man is highly intelligent and knows his history well. One of his best pieces was "The origins of Political Correctness" where he discusses Cultural Marxism. A practice many of our elected from both parties are engaging in.
Amen!