Ok, so here we are…2011. So far, I don’t have my flying car, my light saber, hover board…at this point I would settle for a Delorean, but that might be too much to ask for.

What we DO seem to have though is a lot of the same so far. Politicians are still politicians, the rich get richer and the poor stay poor, and people are still stuck in the middle. We have a US representative who was shot and all signs are pointing that the guy that did it *spoiler alert* was a dope smoking, government hating, free thinking, video game playing terrorist.

 

Ok…let’s backup a second and break that down. I don’t know what to say about the pot other than I know plenty of people who use pot and do not act like that (admittedly he may have been taking stronger stuff, I don’t know the guy). Ok so he hated the government (there’s actually some stuff saying that he believed there is mind control at work) but let’s face it…government sucks! it’s a bunch of middle aged people trying to tell people that they know what’s best for everyone so let them take care of it. Like most things the concept of our government has two things going: It sounded better on paper, and they didn’t think we would last that long (honestly, there was so little room for societal improvement we had to write in our own errata!)

 

Now don’t get me wrong the government has a lot going for it too! It was written by a bunch of people that knew they didn’t know everything. It COULD change to fit the needs. the problem is that we are so stuck on a paper written so long ago that in order to properly interpret it we now need a bunch of groups to tell the government what is right and what is wrong! My two year old (soon to be three) niece I’m sure has as good a grasp on the concept of good and bad.

Point is the government is supposed to work and work FOR us…not on us. United we stand, one shall fall…no wait that’s not right. Anyway nothing is gonna get better until we do it. Don’t wait for something to happen to you, MAKE it happen! You never know, could be the changing factor…

 

Be excellent to each other…