The Calling of A Contemporary Yank

[jotsy]

As political drama unfolds on all fronts, heated debate ensnares the worst of our senses when we engage in discussions of what it is to be a true American. Which side it is that knows the truth is a question that can't be answered, as perception is too much a factor in building criteria for said truth. I can speak from but a single view, which I hope to have with enough purity of heart, along with the discipline and the daring to share it in a way that causes a positive difference.

Being American is not about blood lines or geography, religious doctrine, status or skin tone. The reason that the world watches this infant of a dynamic nation is the nature of our design. These United States of America were intended to work in a way that lies in contrast to the bulk of governing bodies that have to date, been.

The spectacle and the irony of our moment is about how we survive achieving that spirited intent. Once we proved so profoundly to be, as billed for more than two centuries, the land of opportunity, for one, only as well as all, did portions of us decide that it's all gone wrong.

When the election cycle of 2008 wound down to its historic ushering in of a new and enlightened age, I thought the time for a revolutionary era de ja redo had been averted. Yet here we are again, facing the kind of division that can snap nations into fragments.

As we size up the opposition to a fresher way forward, understand the diversity of its layers, for it is far more than two fold. Primarily, you have a root and a mass, if you want to tame the mass, starve the root. A foundation of this magnitude doesn't make itself readily visible. Somewhere between the corporate greed and the hysterical masses are not only the veins we call a mainstream media, but the true arteries of manipulation, which are seen to by the realm of our elected officials. The presidency, in and of itself, is more of and administrative kind of secretarial set of tasks, the heart of the nation's power beats in our congressional halls.

As 21st century progressives, part of what we are here to deliver is a higher standard of government, because the state of our union has never been in greater peril from within. The challenge of our era is to clarify in current terms what constitutional provisions are required of, by and for a free and self governing society.