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• Wednesday, July 23, 2008 07:24 AM

  Engagement

  The general tenor of these letters include:

  1. You're jerks if you didn't realize this already;

  2. Both parties are complicit and you're fooling yourselves if you didn't already know this;

  3. Justice will not be served by this Congress or the next president;

  4. You're already being monitored and there's nothing to be done about it;

  5. Don't delude yourself--your not important enough to be monitored;

  Etc.

  One thing is certain: Whatever is actually happening will continue and most likely grow in scope and offense if the citizenry refuses to engage in what we commonly call "the process." It is unreasonable, surely, to work for comprehensive change and expect overnight results. But we can work, at the local and federal Congressional levels, to bring forward progressive candidates who actually value human decency, fairness and equity, whether it's wage equity, environmental issues (inclusive of alternative fuel sources, to name one example) or, simply, responsive government that doesn't view its citizens as the enemy. We currently lack this because for far too long most Americans have delegated, by lack of interest and by inaction, their governance to non-responsive, self-interested people. How could we expect anything less? We've been granted what our slothfulness seemingly desired and now we see the fruit.

  This doesn't have to be the end, nor is it a matter of throwing one's hands up and shrugging complacently in the face of seeming defeat. Really, it only takes a modicum of interest and involvement. I think many of us would be surprised at the outcome.

  —Timothy3 Read Timothy3's other letters
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