Chaos

What is going on out there?

Feels like chaos doesn’t it?

Democrats are abandoning their captain, scrambling for the life boats and salvaging whatever they can out of the churning waters as the ship of the Democratic majority sinks like the Titanic smashing into the iceberg of fiscal irresponsibility.

The career Republicans are all jockeying for their own little position at the helm of the Flying Dutchman, surging from beneath the waters of their own political demise only one election ago; at the same time trying to fight the Tea Party that is quickly taking over the ship.

While this struggle for political advancement plays out, the average American is more concerned about their next paycheck than who gets to hold what title. They are more preoccupied with trying to pay their mortgage and provide for their families than they are with which suit wearing aristocrat gets to sit in the big fluffy chair.

The country is a mess. We’ve lost sight of the very liberty that was purchased at such a great cost.

On that note, the chaos is encouraging.

People are starting to pay attention.

It’s time to pull back the curtain completely. Expose the whole system for what it has become - a giant mess that cannot be fully comprehended by the average citizen. If people don’t understand it, they can’t change it. They’ll get bogged down in the minutia and they’ll give up.

The federal government has become the hydra that many of the founding fathers feared. Patrick Henry would be plastered on the evening news right now; standing on the steps of the capital building with a musket in one hand and a sword in the other screaming for a revolt.

I know, I sound like a paranoid, aluminum hat wearing, tea party, sign carrying, crazy person.

Thanks.

There is something wrong when we elect leaders touting flowery rhetoric about hope, change, and demonizing legitimate businesses and industries.

We need meaningful changes, not fancy slogans.

We need to ignore campaigns that make an emotional appeal in order to ignore the facts behind an issue.

We need to read the bills.

We need to hold people accountable.

We need to end the days of the career politicians.

We need to push for term limits in every office.

We need people who are there to fix problems, not guarantee their political futures.

Get engaged.

I’m going to spend some time going through the propositions that are going to be on my ballot this November. I’ll explain how I researched them and why I am going to vote for or against them. Whether you agree with what I am saying or not, I hope it inspires you to look at the ballot that you will vote on. Make an informed decision. Talk to your neighbors, friends, and coworkers about their choices and educate them if you need to.

Don’t follow the rhetoric, look at the facts. Decide where you would really like to see your country, your state, your county, your city, your school board – and make it happen.