Awareness, Knowledge, Action

A lot of people agree with my views, and every single one of them has asked, "What can we do about it?"  Knowing what a difficult task we have ahead of us, it is normal to feel overwhelmed.  The most important thing is that while it is alright to feel overwhelmed, it is imperative that you do not feel discouraged.  It will be a long, hard fight to win our country back, but we can do it.  In order to make the changes necessary to restore our country, we need to follow three steps:  Awareness, knowledge, and action.

Awareness
This step is simultaneously the easiest, and the most difficult step.  The first thing that must happen is that people must be aware of what is going on.  If you are reading this blog, you probably have, at the very least, an inkling that something is wrong with our country.  Simply, if people do not feel an immediate and harsh effect from some law or government action, they will ignore it.  The health care bill will affect every American, but the taxes and benefits don't kick in immediately, so by the time the crunch is felt, it will be too late.  In order to raise awareness, we need to make sure that people understand that everything that happens will have some sort of effect, and that every voice that joins our cause is pivotal.  People must understand that our country is being hijacked by our own politicians, and that it is our duty to prevent them from doing so.

Knowledge
Once people are aware, they will require knowledge.  It is one thing to know something is wrong, but it is another thing to be able to explain what is wrong, why it is wrong, and how to fix it.  The government assumes we are all uneducated.  Actually that's not true.  The government knows we are all educated, and they assume that their schools taught us to love the government no matter what.  The government assumes we can't think for ourselves.  In order to defeat the coruption, we must be able to think for ourselves.  Our brains are our greatest attributes.  We should never have to say something so moronic as, "We need to pass the bill to find out what's in it."  Somebody wrote the bill, at least one person should know what's in it.  I would prefer if every politician knew what was in it before they voted on it.  Where the government and politicians fail, we need to step up and pick up the slack.  We don't have to save them, but we do need to save ourselves.  Nobody else will.

Action
Action will be taken.  Maybe not today, tomorrow or even this year, but eventually, action will be taken.  The biggest challenge we have is organization.  The government owns the media.  The government can talk to every American at once.  The government does not own me.  The government does not own you.  They think they own us, but really, the citizens own the government.  It has been too long since we have claimed our ownership, reminded them of our ownership.  To this effect, we have a multitude of legal options before us.  We have the plan, we just lack the numbers.

For now, focus on raising awareness and increasing knowledge.  When the time is right, the action will happen.  Until then, do not become discouraged, fellow patriots.  We may be socialist now, but socialism cannot sustain itself, and eventually, we will be capitalist once more.  Do not despair.  $

© Nate Phillipps 2010