by Tony El

Created on: March 02, 2009   Last Updated: April 16, 2009

In many of my conversations with people, I am too often struck by the severe lack of interest in politics. They truly believe that what lawmakers do, on their behalf, has no impact on them, and/or there is nothing that they can do to effect what lawmakers do. Yet, many of these people vote. It's schizophrenia if there were ever a case. If we elect people to act on our behalf, then close our eyes to their actions, it a self fulfilling prophecy to a disastrous outcome for our liberties and freedoms. The lack of understanding of the workings of government and the relationship to the people is something that is probably making our Founders wish that they could reach from their graves to ring each of our necks for such utter disrespect for the covenant of self-government that they placed in our hands.

Though the final blame does rest at the feet of each of us as Americans, due to generations being exposed to the indoctrination system of the U.S government that passes for education in this nation, too many of us seem to be incapable to decipher, analyze, or comprehend what government is and what is their proper relation to it. The government education system has replaced academic excellence with athlete worship, the drive and competition to be the very best in your class, has been replaced with guilt for being too much better then the next person due to your hard work and success, direct engagement in activities and life, has been replaced with spectatorism, a life without self-responsibility, and the tried and true belief that your Creator will provide for those who work hard and honest, has been incrementally replaced with the notion that benevolent men in office will provide all that we need simply because we need it. We have become a nation of too many people who discard everything in the newspaper except the sports, leisure, and sales sections. Too many off us have pressed the autopilot button when it comes to the affairs of our republic as we drop to our knees praying that everything works out well from our political servants without our engagement. Far too many of us can no more tell who's the name of their representatives in the Congress or their State Legislature if they stood to earn a trillion dollars. But, that same person can rattle off sports stats from a time before he was born. The values that we today place on such trivial pursuits are three hundred and sixty degrees cockeyed in a time when our nation disparately needs a politically engaged and educated

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