Taking The Country Back: Lessons From The Massachusetts Election
February 8, 2010
Lessons From The Massachusetts Election,
by Troy Marshall www.BeefMagazine.com
The election of Scott Brown to become the Junior Senator from Massachusetts was a wake up call for each of us.
Troy Marshall of www.BeefMagazine.com wrote an insightful piece detailing the immediate and longer term implication of the election’s results.
Click here now to read Troy’s article, Lessons From The Massachusetts Election.
If there was a one thing I could put my finger on in his article, the comments of the media, and the actions of the politicians in the weeks following the upset election results, it is that America is awake and paying close attention to what’s going on.
What’s going in Washington DC and what’s going on in the legislatures and state Capitols around the country.
Our founding fathers, recognizing that our country was too big – even then, for everybody to sit around a big table in Philadelphia, established a representative democracy.
We, the people, elect folks to represent us.
These representatives go to our state houses and to Washington as our representatives.
They are there to do our bidding. They work for us. They represent us.
Well that was the theory anyway. It turns out that they have a different agenda. It looks like this to me. First they want to get re-elected, forever.
Second, they want their party to control things so they (whoever ‘they’) are can do what their party wants and not what we, the people, want. And finally, they want to make sure that whatever the other party does, tries to do, or proposes – fails.
Contact your representatives in Washington, click here or on the Great Seal for their web sites and email addresses.
Tell them what you like about what they are doing and what you do not like.
Tell them that if they aren’t going to represent you the way you expected them to represent you – that’s OK, you’ll just do everything in your power to get someone else elected in their place next time.
Then get three people you know and respect to commit doing the same thing.
Each of us gets three, who get three, who get three, and so on and so on.
The politicians will soon know we’re serious about paying attention to them and there will be consequences for not hearing what’s on our collective minds.
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