The New America--Introduction

This is what I believe. I will expound on these topics in blogs to come, for those who are interested:

1.) Corporations and their wealthy elites exert far too much influence over our government, our media, and our lives.

2.) Our government has become corrupted at virtually all levels, and in general no longer reflects or represents that which is best for the American people.

3.) The American media participates, being corporate-owned as they are, in hoodwinking the American people into believing that reality is other than what it truly is, and distracting them with a constant diet of bullshit.

4.) The culmination of the disservice of the American people by their corporations, governmental institutions, and media is near at hand, and will have disastrous consequences for our nation, our world, our way of life, and our freedom. In other words, we are heading into a crisis unlike any which we have ever known. The combination of rising energy prices, rising food prices, the housing market crash, the massive level of national and individual debt, climate change, terrorism, and America's disastrous foreign policy and economic blunders of the Bush years are all coming together to create a "Perfect Storm" scenario--one in which we, as ordinary Americans, will be those who suffer most amongst the developed countries of the world.

6.) We have brought much of this upon ourselves through our own apathy, preconceived notions, and willful ignorance--some of us more than others, to be sure, but we have no time left for finger-pointing and recriminations against our ordinary fellow Americans, for the system as a whole has been skewed so as to put us to sleep and to keep us there.

7.) Our only hope to successfully combat these multiple crises is through an active, informed, and unified electorate. And I don't mean 50% +1 unified. I mean we need a sea-change in the way the American people view themselves, their country, and their future. This is the only way in which we can save ourselves (and possibly the world) from disaster and utter ruin.

8.) Those who will awaken us to the realities of our world, and fight with us to extricate ourselves from our precarious position, are our true friends.

9.) Those in the power structure who distort reality, those who seek to divide us, those who would continue to tell us that everything is 5-by-5 and okey-dokey, are enemies of the American people, our freedoms, and our way of life.

10.) Those of us who have awakened must do two things simultaneously:
a.) Fight back against those forces that would seek to put us back to sleep, or to shut us up, or to shut us down, and
b.) Fight to help awaken our fellow Americans.

11.) Fighting back requires more than "Sternly Worded Letters". It requires more than signing petitions. It requires action--action in the form of boycotts, action in the form of marches, action in the form of donating both our time, effort, and resources to those candidates who, in our estimation, "get it".

12.) Failure to solve the problems that face us today is not an option. To fail is to see our way of life annihilated. The longer we wait, the more timid we are in demanding the country and the birthright that are rightfully ours as Americans, the worse the situation will become, and the more dramatic the steps that will need to be taken in order to return our nation into the hands of its people.

13.) Though he is not perfect, there is, to my mind, only one man in America today who can begin--who, in fact, is beginning--the process of awakening us as a people. That man is Barack Obama, and it is for this reason that I support him for President. He, however, cannot save us--all that he can do is show us that we can save ourselves. He offers us one last chance to get it right through the electoral process. Should we fail to elect him, I do not believe we will see another candidate with his unique ability to engage the American people before the shit hits the fan. And it is exactly this quality--the ability to engage the American people--that makes Barack Obama such a special candidate, and provides the explanation for why he has been able to accomplish what he has accomplished thus far.

It is also the reason why he and no other can and must become our next President--because I believe everything I have written here, and yet, I still have hope.  That is why I am here.

Thank you for your time.