Admittance

I have been thinking long and hard about what to talk about. It's been a while, and I've done quite a bit of thinking. I've been thinking about how the Government has essentially influenced us to organize into little groups and fight each other while they pass legislation that makes our lives harder. I've been thinking about how we have willingly allowed the Government to divide the people of this once great country. I've been thinking about the complete takeover that we are ignoring because we're afraid. I've been thinking about the fear we have of actually doing something to help others when it is so much easier to let the terrorists..sorry, the televised news media, tell us who to hate and fear this week. I, like so many others, have began to unplug myself from the system. I read the news from various sources and take the time to form my own opinions of it.

Though I am a gamer, I am also an avid reader and writer. I do not allow my mind to become comfortable with something. I change and modify my ideas daily; I question everything I gather concerning the news; I willfully seek to form ideas about ways to help my fellow humans; I work hard at being creative every day, even if all I do is change up how I prepare my food. I feel that the current Government is doing nothing more than infighting about who has the better idea to screw the people over next. I feel that congress, the president, and the banks are in dire need of being replaced with better people and systems. 

We, as a country and a race, have an opportunity to make things better every day; however, we don't. Instead we bicker among ourselves about who's fault is it that the country is in the sorry state that it is in; the president, congress, the liberals, the conservatives, the republicans, the democrats, the tea party, mom, dad, uncle bob, aunt lilly, God, Satan, Jesus, television, religion, lack of faith. These are a few of the things we tend to blame for our problems, and our countries problems. 

In truth the fault lies with us. The fault lies with the citizens of the United States of America. We have the right, nay, the responsibility to take action if the Government becomes corrupt. It is no ones fault but our own for the economy, for the corruption of the Government and for the general state that the country is in. I am ashamed to call myself an American. I am ashamed to be a gun owner. I know the potential that words have, and yet I've done little to use them to persuade and help people. I know that there are things I could do to help people understand that gun control and regulation is only a bad thing when it is proposed to take them away from people. We are all responsible for ourselves and the things we do. We are in fact responsible for ensuring that society is safe and stable. The things we do daily directly effect how the world perceives us. We are responsible for ensuring that those people who need help, because they are unstable in some form or another, get the help that they need. 

Family, friends, neighbors from all over; I understand that it's frightening and stressful to have to work a job, go to meetings, keep an eye on the goings on in the world as well as in our own country. But, I believe that we are capable of doing it again. This country was founded of the people, for the people, and by the people; yet we allow banks and corporations to run it. We allow the Government to label banks and corporations as having a say in how things are ran so that they benefit and we are set up for failure. We have the right to a wage that allows us to do more than just survive. We have the right to be able to work hard and make our own lives so that we may pursue happiness and liberty. We have the right to be able to marry who we want. To be able to aspire to attain a high status in a company, or to start our own. We have the right to clean water and food that is free from harmful chemicals. We have the right to be able to earn our homes and vehicles that we may live and travel in peace. We have a right to justice and seeing it wrought throughout the country when it needs to be. That laws not be made to bend our backs in fear, but to hold us up and defend us.

A great many things I have thought of. I am making a promise now my brothers and sisters; I swear to share my ideas on how to make this country, and this world, better. I will update with news, ideas, interesting links and articles. We will pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and make this the greatest country in the world again. I will do what I can to help in that endeavor  be it to inform you of what is going on or to inspire you to take action and everything in between. For now I leave you with your thoughts, and should you wish to share them, I will not ignore what you have to say in the comment section. 

Good thoughts friends,

Shadow