Our President, Donald Trump, signing the go-ahead for the Keystone Pipeline is a fine example of the primary issue of living under a centralized government. The majority of Americans is against it--so why is it allowed to pass? Because in reality we're only given the illusion of democracy, of democratic representation. Under a centralized government, the states--the people--the majority--are subject to the power and authority of a minority of politicians. Now, our country, as well as being centralized, is also representative, meaning we are in principle free and able to elect men and women to represent us, to be our voices. But how often those representatives, those voices of the people, quickly become the mouthpieces of the powerful; how quickly they soothe us with sweet words, while lining their pockets! The corruption of our politicians is self-evident: politicians are either bought-out or "persuaded" into playing ball for the big wigs. The corruption against our minds is, perhaps, less evident but still perceptible: the centralized government, along with the lack of education in schools of how governments function--the lack of education of the constitution--of the rights we as citizens have--that our forefathers acknowledged; that our forefathers WANT us to have--the centralized government causes an "out of sight out of mind" mentality, the lack of education causes us to not know our rights: and thus we give up unwittingly our power to the few, who as we know by now are self-interested, who behind closed doors decide what laws to pass and what rights to take away. Is this not corruption of the mind? Shouldn't an honest government want its people to be well-informed, so that it can play an active role in shaping the country for the better? This was the way in which Athens, under direct democracy, functioned. It gave its people an active role in government. All free men by right and by duty gathered at the Assembly to vote directly on legislative and executive laws; they voted directly for their officials. We on the other hand have become passive citizens, and, day by day, our rights are slowly taken, because of this. The systematic destruction of the freedoms we've gained has been upon us since the days of the great revolutions which gave us them. Since those days people in power, who are afraid of losing power, have done what they can to revert us back to feudalistic ways, back to subservience. Today all we know is how to vote. And even then how many of us do vote! How many of us know that our vote isn't worth Jack Daniels, because consciously or unconsciously we recognize our government has a will of its own! And yet we sit in our homes and complain, we go to work and we dream of a better world--instead of taking action! NO ONE can solve the problems of the people except the people. It's time to cast off selfishness, apathy, laziness, voluntary stupidity--it's time to cast these things off and educate ourselves. Do all you can to read up on History, on government, on political theory. Read up on the French, the American, the Spanish revolutions and be motivated by the bravery of our ancestral brothers and sisters, who fought and died for their freedom and the freedom we now have today. WE have the freedom of assembly, WE have the freedom to seize and restructure our government when we feel it's betrayed its people, WE have the power to change: we only need to knowledge to know how to, and how we want to, change. And are you willing to organize? are you willing to destroy the little free time you have for distractions like sports and video games to work towards the future? We are perfectly capable of achieving this.We do not need degrees in politics to be a part of the politician's club: we only need to be guided by instinct and by virtue.
And don't be mistaken. This isn't about taking Trump down; he and most every other president, and most every politician, are simply puppets put in place to sedate the people and push forward the puppet-masters' agendas. The goal of the people should not be to only take out one president and insert another, or to even wipe out a whole cabinet and put in a new one: this would be putting a band-aid on a band-aid on a wound. No, what we need to do is aim toward minimizing our government and reinstating the power in the people, no more passive roles. No more letting other people decide for us what is right; no more involving ourselves in wars we don't need, losing money that could go to the environment and to our own homeless; no more fragmentation among the people. We need to work towards uniting each other under common goals. No more gender inequality, no more racism. It's time to come together to work toward something more important than ourselves: the future of our country and the future of our children.
My goal is to have this blog act as a guideline for reshaping our government--together. I will do my best to argue for the minimization and decentralization of government, I will give my theory on how we should go about this. And in the near future, hopefully, I want theory to be put to action. It's up to you, though. This isn't one person's quest; this is a country's. No one man nor group should rule over others;
