Summary: A long series of posts have described the stupor into which the American people has fallen. The only path to reform requires an aroused citizenry. How can we arouse ourselves? Here we ask the mineshaft. {Aka ”ask the community”, from the German “Gemeinschaft”. See Wikipedia}
The Second Republic, founded on the Constitution, nears death from our indifference. Blaming our ruling elites for taking advantage gains us nothing, for nature abhors a vacuum. We grow weak, therefore they grow stronger. As our great guru Disney explains, that’s the circle of life.
We need not accept this evolution. There is a simple — if long and difficult — path to a new and better America. Learn and listen. Get angry. Talk with others and organize. The Tea Party had the formula right, although it was clear from the beginning they were mired in lies and confused thinking. For more about this see Five steps to fixing America. These are small, easy, simple steps, as a cure is not possible at this time, IMO. We have to build our strength before we can have any reasonable odds of reforming America or building a Third Republic.
But this requires an aroused people. All paths forward require arousing the American people. How can we do this? What first steps should we take?
Please post your answer in the comments.
For more information: about the quiet coup now in progress
- RIP, Constitution. The Second Republic died this week. Of course, we don’t care (that’s why it died)., 5 December 2011
- Our minds are addled, the result of skillful and expensive propaganda, 28 December 2011
- Ask the mineshaft: what’s gone wrong with America? The decay spreads faster than I imagined possible., 2 March 2012
- How to Fund an American Police State (aka Weaponizing the Body Politic), 5 March 2012
- Our leaders explain that we’re sheep. Our role: to obey. Rebel sheep will be imprisoned or destroyed., 7 March 2012
- The hidden dynamics of the 2012 campaign, and what it’s doing to America, 9 March 2012
Some solutions, ways to reform America
- Diagnosing the Eagle, Chapter III – reclaiming the Constitution, 3 January 2008
- Let’s look at America in the mirror, the first step to reform, 14 August 2008
- Fixing America: shall we choose elections, revolt, or passivity?, 16 August 2008 — Part One.
- Fixing American: taking responsibility is the first step, 17 August 2008 — Part Two.
- Fixing America: the choices are elections, revolt, or passivity, 18 August 2008 — Part Three.
- Are the new “tea party” protests a grass roots rebellion or agitprop?, 1 March 2009
- How to stage effective protests in the 21st century, 21 April 2009
- The first step on the road to America’s reform, 29 May 2009
- Correction to my previous posts – not all citizen activism is good…, 16 October 2009
- The first step to reforming America (the final version), 7 December 2009
- Question of the Day, about reforming America, 12 March 2010
- The project to reform America: a matter for science, or a matter of will?, 16 March 2010
- The Tea Party Movement disproves my recommendation for the path to reforming America, 20 April 2010
- Can we reignite the spirit of America?, 14 September 2010
- The sure route to reforming America, 16 November 2010
- Is it time to take the drastic step of calling a Constitutional Convention?, 6 May 2011
- Hear the cattle bellowing in the chutes. Will they revolt?, 8 September 2011
- Occupy Wall Street, another futile peasants’ protest, 5 October 2011
- Fixing America in five steps, 19 October 2011
- How do protests like the TP and OWS differ from effective political action?, 26 October 2011
- See the power of our ruling elites, displayed by the picture of a kitten, 28 October 2011
- Civil disobedience by the “Occupy” movement is a challenge to our rulers, 21 November 2011
