Reply #6: We, the people, are capable of doing this but what of our leaders? [View All]

[Selatius]

Our leaders, in general, are poor representations of what we, the people, can truly rise to and accomplish. They are so corrupted by power and money it's sickening. This monstrosity of a federal government that tramples on its own citizens' rights and bombs nations into the Stone Age at the bidding of its corporate masters is not of the Enlightenment principles that this nation was founded upon.

I have grown to the point where I have little to no confidence in electing others to be doing things that we should and ought to have the power to do ourselves through education and organization. I fear the concentrated power of our government much like our Anti-Federalist forebearers. That kind of power corrupts souls. It is a danger, and I fear if we continue to let power become even more concentrated, we will rot away as a Republic from the inside-out like the Roman Republic.