Reply #59: Yes. WE are the people, WE are the government.

[Turn CO Blue]

Even though I "work" for a company, I have always behaved as though I were a consultant or an independent contractor. I am my own boss.

We have to behave the same way with OUR government.

Okay, wouldn't it be just *rosy* if there were some definitive leadership on the election fraud issue by the candidate or other statesmen? Well, guess what? No Senator arranged for Rosa Parks to refuse to give up her seat for a white man on the bus that day. She made that bold move totally on her own. She decided -- for herself and for everyone -- that she wouldn't move and that she wouldn't stand for the law that said she had to move.

We all must do the same. We must decide to be the government and to be the media -- individually and together -- and refuse to give up our government and elections to a corrupt cabal of neo-cons and corporations.

Why should a Senator or the media be expected to fight for what is yours and mine? That type of thinking is way too passive for me. And the litany of the "we are all fucked, give up, they're way too powerful" talk is just too apocalytic for me. What if, instead of agreeing that they are too powerful, we all agreed that we need to organize, that we ourselves could be too cowardly or lazy?

Yes, I expect better representation from the Dems, but am I going to whine and wait around for them to rescue little ol' me? I am my own boss, remember? The Senators and pundits are not going to become our Knights in Shining Armor, and we need to stop waiting for someone to rescue democracy for us -- because Democracy belongs to each and all of us and we must be the rescuers. Don't we yet realize that "the leaders follow the followers' lead"? WE are the grassroots militia. We can get up and march on Selma. If anything, I will get off my computer, and work to get transparent voting in Colorado or at least my own damned county if that is all I can manage, because I am not going to be passive nor defeatist about this issue. Nobody needs to come with me or hold my damned hand either. It's a decision.

In the Ukraine, the people went into the streets...first a few, then a few thousand, then thousands upon thousands. Currently, in the USA "we the people" are all going on the Internet(s) and email.

The time will come when each of us, individually, is going to have to make a Rosa Parks decision. What will follow will be the voters' equivalent of the million man march...

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