What are ways you or I can affect change in our government?
What are some organizations you belong to or kow about that stand for change?Are you fed up with the American Government?I agree 100%. Unfortunately, change will only come with a revolution. You can push people only so far before they begin to rebel in mass.Are you fed up with the American Government?The american government has its flaws, but I think people are waking up to the reality that they have been had for the last six years.
Last falls elections were a good sign - like you said, we really need a new direction, not just dem vs. rep - but unfortunately the way this system works, a third party would need a ridiculous outpouring of support both financially and through volunteering time in order to pull off a victory.Are you fed up with the American Government?Only MONEY affects our elected reps. Money elects them also.The problem is some people are afriad of change, if you think that US right now is in trouble (I do), what MIGHT happen if there was a change? What kind of change do you mean? (I hope not from democracy to communist.....)You talk about all this change and don't offer any suggestions. The only realistic way to create change is to run for office, or start a lobbying group to enact your changes. To pretend like you could reinvent the system to avoid the problems this one faces is ignorant.sure amI'm fed up with them... I don't even live there... i have relatives there that I haven't seen in years because refuse to go another country that treat all visitors like criminals... I have a great job and a home and a child (I have never commited a crime)... i would never give that up to go to live in the US but yet they have to treat you like a criminal or like you wanna stay in there country if you haven't got a million dollars in your bank account to prove that you will go back home... so I just wait for my family to come visit me. So instead when I want to go on vacation I just have to take me and my son to another country... other countries are beautiful even more than the US...I'm fed up with the current adminstration. It would take alot more then this to affect change. Look at our history during the past 45 yrs or so and what happened to the ones who had the power to change things and tried, they lost their lives.To answer your first question, yes I am fed up. The thing that makes me mad is that voting was meant to be our voice but it is not, because all the candidates are really just moderate and they lean just slightly to the left or right, there is no HUGE government changing differences.That's exactly right. There are so many people that don't want things to change. They have unlimited credit on their platinum cards. The Mercedes is almost 3 years old and it's time for a new one. Their $400K house could use some work. A bigger pool. Maybe a guest house. The gas prices has no effect on them. They don't know what all the fuss is about. So what gas prices are up. It's about itme the oil companies raised them. I filled my wifes car up and it cost $35. Before this administration, I could have filled two cars for that. But everything is all right. Don't make a stink.Liberalism is progressive isn't it? It took us to the moon. This country has been in a conservative mode for nearly (40) years, yet the liberal bashing continues. A third party would only prove that this country is in real crisis. Liberalism or Conservatism, the political mechanism is in place, it's up to us to seize the moment for CHANGE. Politics is one thing, but good policy is another. Corporate profits are way up, but investment is down, go figure. Change is coming whether you like or not.Change does need to happen:
First of all, the government needs to be stripped from a lot of power because they are abusing it to the point where they are completely defensive to inquiries of their incompetence, or even their actions.
The government wastes money! The American government is probably the poorest money manager in the world. Remember before 9/11 the Department of Defense could not account for trillions of dollars? What about the almost 9 trillion dollars owed by the General Fund?
The government is too big, and is seeking ways to around the constitiution under the current administration. FBI abused the patriot act. The IRS abuses its power to the point where it will blatantly deny its victims of rights through intimidation. The government is guilty of prison abuse and torture. The government continues to use false intelligence to justify its actions.
Go ahead...keep it up...maybe one day Americans will be forced to defend themselves not through courtrooms but through violence!hey alls read this they stop freedom of speech with H.R. 3302 wish stop them call statesmen in Capital Hill tell stop this now
to off the air wave like Michael Savage rash by call them Liberal Democrats are attempting to muzzle conservative talk radio: they are assaulting free speech. Like the communists in the former Soviet Union, America’s liberals seek to crush dissent by consolidating control over the media—especially talk radio, which has emerged as the dominant medium for conservative opinion.
Allies close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are promoting legislation, which if passed, will take off the air prominent conservative radio hosts such as Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly—along with thousands of smaller conservative broadcasters. The bill, entitled the %26quot;Media Ownership Reform Act,%26quot; is sponsored by Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a leftist Democrat from New York. The legislation aims to revive the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” of the 1940’s: “all views” are to be given equal time on radio. In particular, the Federal Communications Commission would have the power to oversee and change radio and television content. The goal is to tilt the ideological balance of power away from the right on the nation’s air waves.
The real force behind the effort to censor conservative talk radio is the progressive–philanthropist, George Soros. The radical leftist billionaire has made no secret of his hatred for conservatives. He says President Bush has transformed America into a militaristic, “fascist” empire. Moreover, Soros champions many of liberalism’s chic causes: abortion on demand, legalization of drugs, homosexual marriage, euthanasia, unlimited Third World immigration, open borders, and one-world government anchored in the United Nations. He advocates all the issues that are anathema to popular radio talk-show hosts like Savage, Limbaugh and Hannity. Hence, he wants these commentators to be exiled to the political wilderness.
At a recent National Conference for Media Reform, sponsored by Free Press, a Massachusetts-based group heavily subsidized by Soros, Hinchey laid bare his plan to silence conservative voices on television and radio. The anti-war McGovernite attacked Savage, Limbaugh and other conservative radio hosts, saying they were “responsible” for leading the U.S. into the Iraq war, as well as for preparing the ground for future military invasions of Iran and Syria. According to Hinchey, these men pose a “threat” to American national security. Hence, under his bill, they would be fired.
%26quot;All of that stuff will end,%26quot; Hinchey said.
In the Senate, the legislation is being supported by Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. A self-styled “social democrat,” Sanders is forming a media caucus with the explicit goal of ending conservative hegemony on talk radio.
%26quot;Now is the time to begin asking that if networks provide their listeners with 99 percent of talk shows being with right-wing extremists, whether that really is what public trust is about,%26quot; Sanders said in an address in January. %26quot;Now is the time to open the question of the Fairness Doctrine again.%26quot;
However, this begs the question of why do radio networks have most of their shows hosted by conservatives? The answer is a simple one: They’re popular with listeners. Talk radio is overwhelmingly right-leaning because it satisfies the public’s growing appetite for alternative news and commentary to the liberal media establishment. If the Democrats don’t like the opinions of Savage, Limbaugh or Hannity, then all they need to do is go to CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times or The Washington Post. There are countless outlets peddling the anti-war, anti-Bush mantras of the left.
The liberal media and political class have tried to marginalize conservative talk radio for years—first by ignoring it, then by demonizing it, and finally by attempting to compete with it. Air America, with hosts such as Al Franken, was supposed to be the great liberal alternative to conservative talk radio. But, in spite of all the puff stories in The Times, The Post and CNN, Air America failed dismally to attract a large audience. When Hinchey, Sanders, Soros and their liberal Democratic allies complain about the need to “give equal time” to left-leaning views on radio, they forget one important fact: The radio audience is not interested. Now, after the failure of Air America, the Democrats are attempting to implement the final solution to their conservative problem: censorship.
Eastern European conservatives have faced similar oppression for the last 15 years. From Georgia to Croatia, Serbia to Slovakia, Soros’ media empire has relentlessly sought to marginalize patriotic and conservative journalists. In many countries in the former communist bloc, there are hardly any conservative voices left in the mainstream media. In fact, the billionaire activist openly brags that the former Soviet empire has become “the Soros empire.” He is now bent on destroying his ideological enemies in the belly of the beast—America.
What Soros understands—like all ambitious leftists before him, such as Lenin, Trotsky, FDR—is that attaining cultural power is the necessary precondition to achieving political power. The brilliant Italian Leninist revolutionary, Antonio Gramsci, outlined this strategy in his theory of cultural hegemony. Gramsci argued that once the left captures the commanding organs of culture and the media, the “state will simply fall into our hands.” He understood that, by dominating culture and stifling all voices of opposition, the left would be free to manipulate and mold public opinion, thereby paving the way to permanent political dominance. This is why Soros and his Democratic allies are determined to smash talk radio, the main bastion of cultural/media resistance to the liberal regime.
The attempt to revive the “Fairness Doctrine” represents a direct assault on freedom of speech. It is a concession by liberals that they are losing the battle in the marketplace of ideas. Unable to compete with conservatives in the arena of rhetoric, facts and reasoned argument, Democrats are resorting to the Stalinist method of stifling all dissenting points of view. Unable to out-argue and out-debate Savage, Limbaugh and Hannity, liberals are hoping to silence them—once and for all.
More importantly, the war on talk radio reveals the totalitarian impulse at the heart of modern liberalism. Above all, liberalism is an ideology based on radical social engineering. Its ultimate goal is to transform America into a society characterized by economic collectivism, personal—and especially, sexual—liberation and multilateral globalism. To accomplish these goals, the left must fundamentally restructure the economy, the family unit, traditional bourgeois values, and even the nation itself.
This is why liberals ultimately rely on coercion to pass much of their agenda. They must raise taxes and propose new entitlement programs (like universal health care) to keep expanding the power of the state; they must push for homosexual marriage and abortion to keep undermining the nuclear family; they must expunge religion and the Ten Commandments from the public square to keep rolling back traditional morality; and they must insist on amnesty for illegal immigrants and subordinating foreign policy to the United Nations to keep subverting America’s national sovereignty and distinct cultural identity. Their favorite tools of coercion are usually judicial activism and bureaucratic decrees. Now, however, riding high after the November midterm elections, they are going for the jugular—the outright silencing of their ideological opponents.
Conservatives must form a united front to prevent this blatant power grab by the Soros Democrats. If not, the return of the “Fairness Doctrine” will not only be a great victory for the forces of censorship, but a watershed moment in the continuing march of liberalism against everything that is good, decent and virtuous in America
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President BushI'm fed up with the far lefts determination to send this country down the toilet.First we must change to a new system of electing our Representatives.The current system is Corporate backed.You have to be rich,and richly backed.How can we expect a Rich Man,or Woman,to understand the needs of this mostly not rolling in the dough,majority.Our Representatives are the major problem with this Government.This change must come from a collective amount of people,demanding it.Adding to all of your above suggestions,pay attention to who is backing the candidates,Corporate backed candidates will probably keep more of the same,smoke screen,do nothing games going once elected.Voting is the only way to affect change in our form of government. I would really like to see Fred Thompson run for president. Not because he is Republican like myself but because when he went into office he said he was there for two terms and then would leave. Guess what? After two terms he left office. Maybe due to his TV contract but so what. He did what he said. Unlike Kennedy and the walking skeleton from West Virginia. Two terms is enough. The people of the colonies voted more than we do right now. I find that scary. They did not have the convieniences that we take for granted but when it came time for elections, they went out and voted. That is the only way to affect change in this country. I still love my country. I would not leave here for any reason whatsoever.yes i am cuz we got a dumb president that keeps sayin were makin progress but nothin has happened, weres our freedom to do as we plz like say that we want to kill the president n not really mean it or crack on him with out the fear that he wont want us aressted jus becuz he got upset about it weres our freedom?money oil violence and everything bad.....bush sucksHow to affect a change in the government? Simple, become the government. That's the cool thing about this nation, it lets any US citizen the chance to get elected to office. [Well, okay except for the President, you have to have been born a US citizen.] All these people that criticize the elected officials. Don't Monday-morning-quarterback them. Instead, get out, get your name on the list and get elected and take their place. Don't talk about how you'd do this or that, blah blah blah. Show everyone how much better your ideas and governing techniques are.
It is tough to get elected, and no one wanting to do the right thing or work for the greater good will ever be elected again. Why not? Because big business does heavily influence the message people receive before elections. So, get rid of certain big business and then we'll see a change. Exxon/Mobil made profits in excess of $30 Billion [yeah that's billion with a %26quot;b%26quot;] last year. Profits, not just gross income. Everyone still goes out and buys their product, so everyone gives them money to fund the candidate of Exxon's choice, not the people's choice, every election. That is how the populace really votes. They do it year round every year, not just on election day.
And, the populace doesn't really care what organizations are out there or what they do. If the organization is funded enough, then they can get their message out and be known. Without the funding, the organization may as well not exist.
It's a fact, and fault, of society today, not the government. Everyone wants to look at the TV and blame the government when they should put some of the blame on the person they look at in the mirror. Do research on your own, don't just go by the infromation given out by the person with the better funding that could buy the better prime time commercial slot; funding you gave that person in the first place in a roundabout way.i dont think anyone really cares. as long as they have their 50 inch tvs and big house. crazy. idk how to change. rallies? but ud prolly need to belong to an orgranizations. im still too young to belong to one.Yes, I am fed up... The government today is nothing like our founding fathers had in mind when they fought for our independence, and when they wrote our Constitution.. The federal government has been granted too much power and they use that power in the most ridiculous ways. I would love to think we can make a difference, but I believe our insignificant tax-paying voices would be inaudible to the ears of corrupt, greedy politicians.We are fed up with our elected officials because they no longer work for our best interest. They have been hijacked to work for the international bankers on GLOBALIZATION! And that is in Conflict With Our Best Interest because that leaves us with no representation!
Bush’s agenda (taking democracy to the rest of the world) was really the agenda of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) %26amp; IMF (International Monetary Fund) etc. To make a one world economy or government, aka GLOBALIZATION, it is easier for them to take us down than it is to raise the rest of the world up to our level. And they make more profit doing it this way.
Their (under the radar groups of) Economist have equations as wide as the paper they are written on. In my opinion this is their Robin Hood plan for taking our jobs and other things away from us and giving it to others.
They do not care about the environment, the people of our country or the other countries. The say they do, but that is just an excuse to get their foot in the door of other countries to get their natural resources, like oil, minerals, gold, silver, diamonds etc.
If they don’t get what they want, they create war to get it! Like the Iraq war, based on lies and deceit!
They want to break the unions, tear down programs of social services, and take our Bill of Rights away from us. Bush wants to flood the country with cheap foreign labor that is why we have soooooo many marching in our streets demanding that they have our rights. This will break the unions, not to mention that WE are paying the cost for their medical care, education, etc. I heard that it is the equivalent of a new Mustang convertible each year, for each illegal in this country.
It can really be sumed up in one word; GREED!
What You Can Do !
There are grassroots organizations starting up all over the country. One called A28.org (It got its name from April 28, 2007, a National Day of Protest) is for the IMPEACHMENT of this present administration.
We must seek out leaders that value truthfulness and integrity if we are to restore our democracy and country to its greatness. Our democracy is undermined when our leaders try to mislead and manipulate us with deceitful ways. We can only make good decisions when we have truthful and correct information to base decisions on.
The Declaration of Independence “…. Governments are instituted among Men, DERIVING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED…. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, IT IS THEIR RIGHT, IT IS THEIR DUTY, TO THROW OFF SUCH GOVERNMENT, and to provide new Guards for their future security…. let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”
Constitution of the United States: Article. II. Section. 4.
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
It is the DUTY of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, to throw off such Government as our Declaration of Independence instructs us to do.
Remind Them Of That!
It is OUR DUTY %26amp; THEIR DUTY to throw off such Government!
The world awaits the SHOCK and AWE of seeing Democracy in Action!
We need to take back our democracy and country and tell Congress:
WE NO LONGER CONSENT TO BE GOVERNED BY THIS
BUSH %26amp; CHENEY ADMINISTRATION THAT HAS COMMITTED
TREASON, HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS!First off if voting mattered it would be illegal by now. The system is inherently corrupt, therefore attempting to change a corrupt system from within will FAIL. It is logically impossible to create an Ethical system within the confines of a unethical or corrupt system. The system we live in is called a bureaucracy. A bureaucracy is thought to be a synonym for organization, but it is not. A bureaucracy is the systematic elimination, destruction or avoidance for corrective feedback. Bureaucracies tend to invade institutions mostly because institutions are set up hierarchically this structure only increases the bureaucracy, thus removing more of the corrective feedback. Now at the top of this structure of hierarchal bureaucracies is the BORG. The BORG is an acronym that stands for Banks and Big Business Organized Religion and Government. The BORG is parasite that lives off the efforts of the host. We the people are the host. In order to live outside of the of the BORG Matrix we need to set up an new society based on Ethics and Creativity. That new society is called TITANIA. I recomend you visit www.titanians.org for more information. Download the podcasts and become a citizen of Titania!
