The failure to amass constituent support for government reform… is the result of leadership’s refusal to support and resource reform. The public constituency for reform is ripe… it is present… but it needs to be groomed and developed... organized and supported… with the backing of a major political party, or a cabal of individuals, with the resources to convince the public they will not be betrayed… They need to know their efforts will not be abandoned on the field, for a lack of resourcing or manipulative and fickle leadership. Recall ‘Brave Heart’ and William Wallace, the Scottish rebel, betrayed by the Scottish lords in 1305… the Public is not willing to repeat history with their son’s and daughter’s lives at risk.
In the past, political parties were organized from constituencies with common interests. However, today the major political parties are not there to serve their constituents INTERESTS or the common good of the public. Today's political parties exist to finance and maintain the party elite and their HOLD-ON POWER. They maintain a closed system of political hacks at the helm of our government, who serve a plutocracy, not the public. The interests of the Political Parties have become the source of tyranny and the People are approaching the point of rebellion… no longer willing to finance a corrupt plutocracy or a new-age aristocracy they demand reforms.
If the political party system in America served the PUBLIC… the party leadership would be focused on saving the Republic, not on manipulating their constituency to maintain a corrupt system of government. As the famous Scott, William Wallace, once chided the Lords of Scotland: "The people don't exist to support your interests. You (The Lords of Scotland) exist to support the people...” Or words to that effect.
The Leadership in our current Political Parties could learn from Wallace… It is leadership that must serve the people, not the other way around. For liberty and freedom to reign in a nation, its leaders must have the willing consent of the people to govern. The Lords of Scotland, then and today, need to serve their constituency; in doing so, they secure the best interests of all parties governed… obtaining the People’s voluntary consent to the government legitimizes the authority of leadership to govern. Currently, we have an illegitimate government.
The constituency for change and reform is present in the fields of America… the seeds of liberty remain on hallowed ground. However, they lay fallow and need tending and nurturing. America must return to the fields of liberty if its government is to produce the fruit of freedom.
Our leaders need to plow again the fields of liberty… if our children are to eat of the bread of freedom ... America's leaders must return to tend the fields of liberty if our children are to enjoy the fruit of our forefather's labor… if AMERICA… is to remain the citadel of liberty and the lighthouse of freedom... its leaders must return to the cultural ideology and Constitutional government established by its founding fathers.
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