“..we’re now past the point of a political solution in this country.”
I cannot agree more with this statement. Oh, give it one more election everyone says, it will be different next time. This has been one of my older sister’s and my biggest arguments. She says elections are there to fix these problems. I say DC is way too broke to fix. Corruption too deep. She called me screaming yesterday afternoon after Boehner won and all I could say, told ya.
We need a BIG shake-up in DC and not something that comes every 2, 4, or 6 years. My writing letters, phoning and faxing days are over. Time to move it up a notch or two.
Absolutely.
We need to refer back to the early history of our country's path to independence. It didn't start with the Revolutionary War. That's where it ended - after the colonies had tried every solution available to them within the civil systems established at the time.
The Americans spent decades trying to appeal to Parliament and King George III to grant them the same rights as other British citizens, to no avail. It wasn't until they realized that they would never be treated as anything other than serfs, that they finally picked up their guns.
The current government has become more tyrannical than King George III ever dreamed of being, and the resultant hew and cry from the people is growing in the same way it did here centuries ago. I personally don't see our government learning a damn thing from our history. They're going to keep doubling down on tyranny until the people finally make them stop.
At some point in the not-too-distant future, the majority of voters are going to come to the same conclusion that you and I already have. When they fail to show up for yet another fruitless exercise in voting, the ruling class may finally understand that things are about to undergo a tectonic shift.