WILL YOU JOIN ME IN THIS RE-REVOLUTION? The alternative is not pretty!

PRINCIPLES ARE DRIVEN BY ONE’S FOUNDATIONAL CORE BELIEFS. Principled people in politics are called STATESMEN. They start with the belief that there is a higher power than self or fellow man to which one owes acknowledgment. Principled statesmen are those who look out for the best long term interest of their fellow citizens and sustainability of their country based on the individuals self worth as declared by nature and nature's CREATOR GOD. They treat the individual as an equal to themselves and others by virtue of all being the creation of the one CREATOR GOD.

There are principally two views in effect in our political world today.  FIRST, there are those WHO BELIEVE IN A HIGHER POWER OVER MANKIND, A CREATOR GOD. Principally they believe that WE ARE ENDOWED (given by birthright) BY OUR CREATOR GOD with certain un-alienable rights. EQUAL RIGHTS that cannot betaken away or altered, that all flow FROM THE CREATOR TO THE INDIVIDUAL.Therefore, the power flows from the CREATOR EQUALLY TO AND THROUGH ALL INDIVIDUALS.

SECOND, there are those people WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN A CREATOR GOD. THEY BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF MAN and subsequently all rights and power must flow from human to human. Within this world, the strongest (wo)man or group rules and sets the rules for all the weaker lesser 'individuals'. In reality, individuality no longer exists in this paradigm because the strongest determines what is best and/or allowed for all of their 'subjects'. There really are no principles within this category because any thing is allowed as longer as the strongest group says it is allowed.

The founders of this country understood these foundational truths. Once they had set their minds to no longer living as 'SUBJECTS' whipped about by the whim of the strong man of the day, the King of England, they established for all living in the new world to see, the distinction between subject and free individuals. THEY SHOWED A NEW WAY AND GAVE THE PEOPLE A CHOICE BETWEEN SUBJECT AND FREE FOR THE FIRST TIME!

KEEP IN MIND THAT THE CORE PRINCIPLE OF THE FOUNDERS WAS A BELIEF IN THE CREATOR GOD THAT GAVE THE INDIVIDUAL THE RIGHT TO ACT ON THEIR OWN BEHALF! WITHOUT THIS BELIEF, THEY WERE MERELY SUBJECTS LIVING IN A NEW LAND UNDER AN OLD STRONGMAN.

Not everyone in the new world understood nor cared to understand these truths. In fact, after the revolutionary war was won, many, ignorant of this principle, pleaded with George Washington to become their king!

This brings me to my next point, THE FOUNDERS KNEW THE DANGERS TO THIS NEWLY ESTABLISHED FREE WAY OF LIFE. They understood that money and power corrupt absolutely. The founders sought ways to dilute power within the governance structure in an ingenious fashion. Knowing full well the dark nature of man that seeks to bring power to oneself and manifest it over others, they put those, who be in positions of power in government, in competition with one another. Three branches, the triune gods (small 'g') of earthly governmental power, all competing for turf which would hopefully keep them so preoccupied that they would never combine to form a new super 'god' over Americans.

Unfortunately, what was to be a better than any other way of life and self governance was still run by fallible human beings that were susceptible to money and power and inevitably corrupted by both.  So what happened? OVER TIME, MORE CORRUPTING MONEY SEEPED INTO THE PROCESS. THEREFORE FEWER PRINCIPLED PEOPLE WERE IN GOVERNMENT AND IN ITS PLACE MORE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR PEOPLE WERE IN POSITIONS OF POWER OVER THE PEOPLE. AS MORE AND MORE MONEY WAS BROUGHT INTO THE PROCESS OF ELECTIONS, THIS IN TURN ENSURED THAT FEWER AND FEWER PEOPLE OF PRINCIPLE WOULD EVER MAKE IT INTO PUBLIC OFFICE. Keep in mind, that in order to elect people of principle you must have people of principle voting in large numbers in the first place. The electorate is not without fault here. WE LOST OUR WAY AND IDENTITY OF WHO WE WERE.  WHICH MEANS, when people lack the core principle, an acknowledgement of the Creator, they become creators unto themselves and it always eventually devolves into 'THE STRONG MAN RULES' because mankind, left to themselves, having nothing left but selfish cravings to feed. Then there is no equality of peoples, merely one person or group telling their SUBJECTS what is allowed or best for them according to the strong man’s rules.

Added to individuals craving for themselves power, is money,which has been turned into the golden noose around the necks of all free people in America and slowly has choked the life out of the once free individual. Money feeds power which feeds money and it becomes a vicious circle and one that paints a pretty dark picture! The power/money structure has largely given us the two party system with candidates that have already been pre-picked behind closed doors and then announced and messaged by a bought and paid for ‘free’ press. It would be laughable if it were not for the chains of slavery that are being built link by link over a once free people!

The powers that be today are the anti-thesis of what was originally established by the Founders in principle and enshrined in writing through our Constitution. So the question begs, did the Founders fail us? Did the Constitution fail us? Or did we fail the Founders and the Constitution by ignoring the principled truths they held out so publicly as a guiding light for centuries so that we might not stumble along the paths of history.

Then the bigger question begs, if we have lost our way, can we do a "reboot"? Not restart the country through a physical revolution but a revolution of individual thinking -finding our way back by starting at the beginning with what it means to be "WE THE PEOPLE", re-discovering the foundational truth of who we are as individuals ENDOWED BY OUR CREATOR GOD WITH UN-ALIENABLE RIGHTS! It would seem to me that this would be the reasonable start. The alternative is not pretty. I am ready for going back to the future. ARE YOU WILLING YOU JOIN ME IN THIS RE-REVOLUTION?

Vince Schmuki