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Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
He could be. One thing that I keep feeling is that part of the elites plans for America require us to "rise up." Our Constitution is a limit that they chafe at, and if they stage a coup, they can be hung for treason. I feel as if they are going to try to set it up so that WE the people are our own undoing.
No matter what, we need to protect the legitimacy of our government. Not the individual politicians, but the government itself, and the Constitution.
We need to be careful not to get tricked into handing our country over to them.
Originally posted by EssenceOfSilence
We need our congress to step up and do the right thing and balance the budget and begin reducing the debt. They need to make the hard choices even if it means they wont get re-elected. Even if these choices means cuts to defense, entitlements, etc. They have to strip the president of his ability to use executive orders to take their own powers.
Originally posted by Illusionsaregrander
Originally posted by EssenceOfSilence
We need our congress to step up and do the right thing and balance the budget and begin reducing the debt. They need to make the hard choices even if it means they wont get re-elected. Even if these choices means cuts to defense, entitlements, etc. They have to strip the president of his ability to use executive orders to take their own powers.
The problem with this is they have absolutely no incentive to do this, and every incentive to seek reelection.
The new law allowing even more corporate contribution to political advertising only gives them less incentive to listen to us.
I would say that at this point, calling, petitioning, etc., our politicians is pointless. What we need to do is to bypass the stable of corporate owned politicians altogether and elect a "fresh" herd of politicians and push through campaign finance reform in one fell swoop.
If we dont change the way campaigns are funded we will never get politicians who are responsive to the people.