by Fegger

Created on: March 05, 2009

Perhaps we need another call to Revolution.

We, as Americans, anxiously await the evolution of the new administration. Our hopes, once again, are pinned on anticipation that maybe, just maybe, we have chosen an individual with commoner's values and goals. Perhaps this one will set aside self interest and insist that his colleagues adhere to the same ideal. May he press, remind, and consistently demand that these individuals understand the origin of their appointment and that their occupation is noble and one of altruism. May he, in private sessions, draw upon the history and birth of this nation and re-instill the objectives in each appointment; and confirm, with those, that the needs and wants of their office should only represent those masses entrusted to their representation and not their personal ambition or those of a select few who may have purchased the right to be represented. It is an ominous task presented to this new power; and one that must be wholly embraced if he is to be successful.

The challenges posed to this new President have been given labels so that it becomes easier to pass in quick conversation. Identifiers like, "economy", "unemployment", "healthcare" and "terrorism" (to name a few) are globally understood terms; yet, in detail, are much more significant and personal issues. These are broad, social matters; but if you bring them into correct focus, they are actually an accumulation of individual malaise that has simply multiplied. The treatment for such things is not to focus on the extermination of the symptoms, but to understand the disease entirely and eradicate its ability to grow or exist. This presents a taller task as we are now discussing the composition of the human being who resides in America; and with the aspirations and values that have become distorted over timesince our first revolution.

Prior to the active onset of our independence we justified our cessation from the Motherland because of tyrannical treatment. We screamed, "no taxation without representation"; and vehemently objected to England's governors and appointees getting fat, living well at the expense of the most common of men. We watched as some of our most affluent "Americans" patronized the incumbent power so that they, too, should prosper in this new land. They opposed "independence" because it simply didn't serve their personal interesthuman nature, I suppose. In this, I may be suggesting that we have come full circle once again, with subtle variant. This time,

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