Grassroots

Forty years of ignoring our basic duty as citizens led directly to the twin disasters we’re seeing in the White House and Congress. Toss in the ongoing legislative tragedies in many local and state governments and America faces a crisis of massive proportions. The Grassroots is coming alive in a […]

Igniting the Grassroots

This entry was tagged 2018 Primary Elections Grassroots US House US Senate Voting and posted on February 20, 2017 by Jason Everett Miller

At no time in human history has the average person had more access to information than they do today, yet we remain as aggressively ignorant as our most benighted and oppressed ancestors. The thing I find most tragic about the situation in America is how far we have fallen from […]

Too Much Information

This entry was tagged 2016 Presidential Election Governing Majority Grassroots Voting and posted on February 14, 2016 by Jason Everett Miller

Very few things in life are as certain as political paradigms refusing to change absent massive, and sometimes violent, action by ordinary people in sustained grassroots efforts measured in decades rather than years. Electing Barack Obama didn't make that rule invalid. ...

“…go out and make me do it.”

This entry was tagged Alice Paul Barack Obama Bipartisan Congress Fringe Grassroots Progressive We The People and posted on January 24, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

In my previous post, I explored the notion that we live in a shared illusionary state that keeps us from truly understanding the reality of our situation. Americans have convinced ourselves that we have zero control over our country much...

Use Your Illusion II

This entry was tagged Activism Apathy Grassroots We The People and posted on December 20, 2009 by Jason Everett Miller

One of my favorite quotes from Thomas Paine's Common Sense involves the notion of societal blessings weighed against the necessary evil of government to deliver those ends. Yet what happens when government becomes antithetical, or in our case inimical, to the...

Bread and Circus

This entry was tagged Apathy Common Sense Grassroots Partisan Thomas Paine We The People and posted on December 12, 2009 by Jason Everett Miller

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Paranoia runs deep in American politics these days. So many on both sides of our gaping cultural divide are willing to believe the most heinous things about their fellow citizens that I am surprised the Republic still stands at all. ...

Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Elephant

This entry was tagged Apathy Evolution Grassroots Partisan Progressive Republican Party and posted on October 17, 2009 by Jason Everett Miller

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The funny thing about politics (funny sad, not funny ha ha) is that perception equals reality for most people, and our perceived "reality" then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy for the country. We have a crappy, partisan hell where nothing gets...

Post-Partisan Traumatic Stress Disorder

This entry was tagged Activism Barack Obama Evolution Grassroots Health Care Reform Partisan and posted on October 13, 2009 by Jason Everett Miller

David Brooks is one of those opinion writers who is hit or miss for me. There have been recent columns when he really nails it, yet on so many others he crashed and burned miserably, caught in the contradictory tornado...

Will the Real Wizard of Oz Please Stand Up

This entry was tagged Barack Obama Bipartisan David Brooks Grassroots Turnout and posted on October 3, 2009 by Jason Everett Miller

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