WITHOUT A SONG, WE GOT PLENTY OF NOTHING!

At the beginning of my career, I was often asked to sing at closing night cast parties. A favorite of everyone was “To Fill the World with Love” from “Goodbye, Mr. Chips.” I don’t sing it anymore, and I can’t remember when or why I stopped. Perhaps we as a Nation, can’t quite figure out how our National theme songs (and International Leitmotif) went from “Kumbaya, “Imagine” and “All We Are Saying, is Give Peace a Chance, “ to “Gangsta Sh*t,” “Oops I did it Again” and yes, “Onward Christian Soldiers Marching Off to War.” Sorry, I know that last one hurt, but if we are ever to re-establish our International Balance and resurrect our National Essence, we will need to do more than wait for the dust of the current Administration to be shaken from our National feet, for they are truly giving America, Americans and by the way Jesus, a bad name.

When you don’t care about the people you were elected to serve, it’s easier to sacrifice their youth on the alter of some imagined, yet self-serving, global mission to impose your thoughts & feelings on others. We certainly were not a perfect Nation or People before 2000, having been filled with all the half truths, taught to us by well meaning History teachers, who were forced to use text books produced by “bottom line” Corporate America, promoting a white wash of our true American Story. However, there was a time when we believed in and practiced the depth of The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution (and its Bill of Rights in their entirety), and more and more, even The Gettysburg Address.

We were proud but not arrogant, courageous but not reckless, generous but not a doormat for our own Government. THEN, the Atomic Bomb & a golf playing President who waited until it was time for him to leave office to warn us about the real dangers of a marriage between a Military Complex and Corporate America; THEN, the assassinations of those who recognized and inspired the best that is still in us; THEN, Vietnam, Watergate, and the nonsense of “…Government is the problem.” Well, I must agree that Government as Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales and GW Bush practice it, is indeed a serious problem for every living thing on the planet.

No, we didn’t suddenly stop being America in 2000, nor in 2004, but the decline accelerated when we allowed politicians to convince us that September 11, 2001, changed forever who we are. Then we got caught up in their tremendous PR talent, repetitious rhetoric and “swift boat” propaganda. It’s easy for us, (though not the rest of the world), to see how we were duped by such masters of the media. However, it’s time for “We the People” to proclaim “ENOUGH!” It’s time to think for ourselves and reclaim our National Essence. We are NOT a Divided Nation as they wishfully preach. We are the United States of America. So let's start acting & voting like it again.

All I am saying is, give Political Revolution a Chance: remove from office those who make us the least we can be, and install those who bring out the best that we are, and have been – A Renaissance of the spirit of “1776,” The Emancipation Proclamation and the “Greatest Generation.” It’s all still there, just buried a little under the debris of the current political corruption of deceit, law breaking and greed. Our leaders are not us, but “We the People” ARE STILL AMERICA!

A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of
Freedom, Honesty and the Rule of Law,

marcello
www.TheReasonableVoice.com
marcello@thereasonablevoice.com