Congress is frozen- The system is broken

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All Problems Bleed from America’s Wound

“They gazed at the wall rising around them, encircling them for all time. They touched, smelled, tasted, and listened to it, and talked about it until they died. They did absolutely everything but challenge its rise, and could have toppled it if they had tried.” —The Last American Novel (manuscript)

By Brian Bogart

We are a distracted people, immersed in addressing symptoms and steeped in the belief that our next vote leads to change. By not challenging the root cause of our problems, we keep the weapons industry healthy and approaching the moment of severing our right to challenge it and save America. By failing to unite, and when lulled into the voting routine, citizens are cogs in the war machine.

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Working the symptoms, while necessary, falls fatally short of progress. We have lost if we still think we can successfully lobby our servants in Washington through traditional means. Top republicans and democrats have allied with the White House and less powerful representatives have raised the white flag. Congress is frozen, the system is broken, and conscientious Americans are spending time on long-fought campaigns that have failed to challenge the root cause of corruption—war and its profiteers.

Here is our solution: In the true form of lobbying (that is, free of bribery), we must sing a single song in massive numbers and peacefully defiant fashion. By popular demand, we must change America’s priority from weapons for profit to human prosperity. Demand a people-based economy and true servants will rise to replace profiteers—and then we will clean up our government.

Our hard work, our taxes, and our research should benefit people first, and funding education should reflect that priority. The European Union develops technology for alternative energy and medical advancements, and then a reasonable defense. America develops technology for global battlefields, at tremendous detriment to domestic and international prosperity. Filling the world with weapons cannot deliver security and prosperity, and is the greatest cause of conflict and terrorism. Unfortunately, few American citizens have time to study the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy and its Future Combat Systems program. These should be required reading to properly unmask the use of our wealth.

Changing administrations or ending the war in Iraq without changing our national priority will neither alter our course nor banish the plague of perpetual conflict. The major parties have consciously sustained this plague for 55 years; both are rife with corruption. President Truman, a democrat, launched the war industry as we know it; President Eisenhower, a republican, was the only president to speak against it.


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