Posts Tagged ‘Status quo’

Boy, I wish I could write like Herbert Meyer. His strong words are a wake up call for us all…

“Our country’s future now lies within our own hands — yours, mine, all of us who comprise what the Washington insiders sneeringly call the grass roots. Good, because unless I’m very much mistaken the liberals have over-estimated their strength. There still are more of us than there are of them. I mean ordinary, decent Americans from across the political spectrum who may disagree about specific issues, but who understand who we are and how we became who we are; who love our country, have a genius for self-organizing, and won’t let the United States go down without a fight.

We need to launch a counter-offensive, so to speak, and the place to start is at the local level. Working with our county and state political parties when we can — or working around them when we must — our objective will be to elect as many people as we can to public office who understand what a democracy is and how the free market works. This will include city council members, county commissioners, school board members, judges, sheriffs and even members of the local parks commission. With the strength and political momentum their elections will provide, we can surge to the state level and then — before it’s too late — take back the power in Washington DC.

I know this isn’t the kind of battle most of us want to fight; we would rather watch the talking heads slug it out on Fox News than stand on a street corner handing out campaign flyers. And given our country’s history, for a while it will be uncomfortable to find ourselves fighting against the revolution and for the status quo. But we’ll get used to this as we make our case over and over again — to our friends, our neighbors, at barbeques and PTA meetings and at public rallies like those marvelous April tea parties that drove the liberals insane. And we’ll draw strength as our ranks swell with new recruits.”

Source: American Thinker: Revolution

This, in a nutshell, is why I am running. Please go to the source and read the whole article — it’s one of the best I’ve seen in a long time…

It’s OK. Don’t fret. The alternative universe that the MSM is trying to create with the news is not working. The historic changes that are occurring in the news delivery business will take time to mature into accepted methods of gathering information, but it is happening. We, as consumers of news, instinctively understand that what we see as news from the old traditional places is not reality, but some alternative framework that can only be described as propaganda. Chris Matthews from the cable show Hardball was honest with his viewers when he said he saw his role as helping the Obama administration to succeed. I believe him.
It’s OK though. We the people, the vast majority who live their lives, know right from wrong, and understand when something doesn’t sound right, are moving to the internet, to find out for ourselves what is really going on out there.
It will take time for all of us to have confidence that this is the case. We get frustrated when we see 500,000 job losses described as “better than expected”, but a year or so ago 18,000 jobs gained as “bleak”. We get it. Even those who voted for Obama get it. Right now they are just looking the other way, giving their guy the benefit of the doubt for a while. But ultimately this MSM house of cards will fall and go away. It is already happening. The NYTimes Co., Gannett Co., and the Tribune Co., are all on the verge of bankruptcy. They have failed to provide the product that people want and they will die. Good riddance.
The internet will take its place with original reporting as time goes on, and we the people, acting as the marketplace of news consumers will decide who is doing good work and who is doing propoganda.
So relax, stay focused, keep actively questioning the status quo, and we will see the MSM go away, and a better product surface in its place. Hey, its the American Way.