:: Thursday, January 15, 2004 ::

Spelling America with a "K" now, are we?

Warning: Political rant ahead...

For the most part, my political views are fairly well known (if not always clearly defined). That being said, everyone, be ye Republican or Democrat, independent or indecisive, liberal or conservative, radical or reactionary, should read this post by Wil Wheaton, blogger extraordinaire and he of Wesley Crusher fame.

I mean, seriously, why aren't more people up in arms about this? I truly cannot understand how the "citizens" (and those quotation marks are there for a reason) of this country are so blind to what's going on. This is supposed to be a democracy. These kinds of things should NOT be allowed to happen here, terrorist threat or no. But only we, the citizens of this spectator democracy, can do something about it, by refusing to be spectators and actively demanding our leaders follow our wishes, rather than their own personal (and in my opinion, idiotic, dangerous, and downright harmful) agendas.

Wake up, America! Demand satisfaction, demand justice, demand freedom. Life is not just Republican or Democrat - embrace unorthodox ideas and concepts, like (gasp!) more than two political parties. Or (shudder!) a Constitutional Convention to update a document that's more than 200 years old, and has little bearing on a 21st century world. Or (horrors!) elections based on the popular vote of citizens rather than politically appointed electors.

Wild and crazy ideas, I know, but without them, and others like them, the American Empire (which is what we are, dont fool yourselves) is doomed to be a historical footnote.

Trust me. I'm a historian.

:: posted by Rob 5:51 AM [+] ::

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