A Declaration of Electoral Revolution

It is interesting and timely the “credit bubble” has finally popped. This irresponsible campaign by credit card companies all but ruined the stability of the United States economy. What a bad habit into which to get, spending money that you don’t have. Eventually reality would be the mediator, the Moses of the U.S. economy. What has become the basis of the stock market, smoke and mirrors rather than the true performance of a company, just couldn’t last. Why has it become passé to value a commodity fairly? There can be no other answer than simple greed. Price gouging, which best could be represented by oil companies posted their highest returns in history when gasoline soared to three dollars a gallon, is unconscionable. It reflects anachronistic periods of European history where “court” or the ruling class just got too big for their pants and the common people revolted. In pre-Soviet Russia emancipated Serfs rebelled against Tsar Nicolas ll, because although they had been freed they were still reliant upon landowners for their survival. The idea that those who worked the land should own it became paramount, in stark contradiction to the buying up of land in the United States by Big Business with eyes to make large profits only for themselves. It seems our country slowly but surely will reach the same fate. Although our Constitution implies certain freedoms are being upheld, covertly under the Republican-led Bush Administration our individual freedoms are regressing. Nothing could better represent these miscarriages of legislation than “Eminent Domain,” the taking of land from common citizens for PRIVATE use. Think of the thousands of misplaced residents of New Orleans which by the fate of a naturally occurring disaster are being exploited and face their losing their property. Instead of the federal government protecting the rights of these average people, Big Business is attempting to coerce their property from them with the prospect of more corporate-produced, cold, calculated, industrialized resort communities. Most middle to lower class wage earning citizens can’t afford to stay at these places having been reserved for the elite wealthy. Should this trend of attempted rule by a private but government-backed totalitarian regime be allowed to continue? It certainly can’t, and we have the historical facts from two other countries experiencing similar circumstances to prove it. Wikipedia’s definition of the French Revolution best sums up this sentiment. “1789–1799 was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on Enlightenment principles of democracy, citizenship, and inalienable rights.” Why is it that the United States engaged in a similar movement of revolution from the British Empire from l775-1783, but today our fundamental rights and freedoms penned in the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution are being assaulted by lawmakers on a daily basis? This can only be a gross error in the election process of our ruling body. The American people thus are summoned by the survival of their own country to cleanse it of this grievous wrong-doing of loss of personal freedoms in the name of the wealthy.