The Rubicon Of Revolution

In all my years of being alive my government has given me no reason to trust in its idea of an institution to protect the people. I first experienced the false golden years of the Clinton administration during which the prospering economy was propped up by the criminal tax rates applied to those that dared to live the American dream. The integrity of a largely popular president dissolved under his exposed sex scandal. This only aided in the further division of the political ideologies of our country.

My eyes were privy to the election that divided a country. Half of America felt the morals of the Democratic Party had fallen by the waist side and were wooed by the scarred president’s predecessor’s son. Born of the Lone Star state he was the face of rugged American individualism. Before we knew it our American way of life was knee deep in social- and neo-conservatism. Two beliefs thought to be divergent, but both forced about the nation in foreign lands and our own. Bush and his party invaded this country with the dangers of theocracy combined with the corruption of corporatocracy.

The very baby boomer generation, born out of the ashes of a second great war meant to bring about peace to every country around the world, voted in the very type of man they fought so hard in the sixties against. This was the generation that was raised on the idea of democracy for everyone and no more blood was to be shed fending of ruthless tyrants in Europe. Their innocence was not intact for long as they committed the ultimate rebellion in protesting against the only thing their parents knew: war. The administration of their young age delved itself into Vietnam and a greater need for American imperialization. This generation fought a war of words with the older ones and brought about a immense social change, civil rights.

It is one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century for the children born of the peace generation to be dropped into two major conflicts in the Middle East by the very man their parents elected. Having secured the civil rights of their fellow black man and woman, the irony that their gay and lesbian children face the same great social prejudice and governmental oppression is only a slap in the face to what they stood for so long ago.

The illusion of Hope brought their children to vote for a man they believed would bring about the end to social- and neo-conservatism and help secure the peace their parents had protested so hard for. Only this new president brought about the horrid ideology of collectivism, the all too close cousin of religious rule. Though this country was founded by a collected group of men, the very beliefs that spawned the Constitution were anything but collectivist. Our constitution was inspired and formed on the basis of independence from any all-ruling power.

With his successful election to President, he was joined by his party that ruled over the majority of Congress. What Hope and Change did they bring? More corporatism.

What can be done? What should be done? No official running for office will ever be able to change the status quo. Fox News has done its job brainwashing the right just as every other major news organization has brainwashed the left.

Before us flows the Rubicon of Revolution. The same Rubicon that our founding fathers in crossed in 1776.

I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to get my feet wet.