Here's another great article by Cindy Sheehan. I've posted before on her straight shooting style.
Once again, she cuts through the bull:
"Congress and BushCo have dismal approval ratings, but what does that say about “We the People?” It says that in our Representative Republic, “We” have no say. That’s because many of us believe that our responsibilities in that Representative Republic are fulfilled in the voting booth. If we don’t stand up to the people whom we employ and pay and make sure our votes count literally and for what we stand for, then we are doomed to being ruled by the ruthless elite who get their legislative orders from the special interests."
Sadly, both she and I have this one thing in common: We complain alot, but offer very little in the form of resolving the problems. Ok, so she's done a bit more than me...stop nitpicking!
But she's still lacking in terms of real practical solutions for the problems she so poignantly highlights.
She finishes with this nice one-liner:
"Nothing is going to change until we put people before the politics of profit or the profit of politics."
My only question is what does she really expect to accomplish in running for Congress?
End Post.
Just don’t call it genocide
1 week ago
2 comments:
Maybe she could have voted against the eavesdropping bill.
AA- Amy,
Surely she would have done so, but the tired cynic in me says, So what? The entire political landscape needs a new facelift....I know, it starts with one person at a time, but my honest assessment of someone like her (and definitely many like her and even better have passed through the halls of Congress) is that the system is simply too big and would eventually either swallow her up (she'd become a bureaucrat) or spit her out (she'd throw her hands up and go home).
God helps us all.
WA-
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