COMMON SENSE
(feeding a populist fever….while starving real political action…fixes nothing)

The – Occupy Whatever – protests make great street theater, as most populist eruptions do (some more theatrical than others); but, from the incoherent and unfocussed messages and slogans so far displayed by these….other than being generally pissed-off at Wall Street…. mistakenly viewed as the sole source of all our problems….we’re left with great puzzlement about what their participants expect to achieve from their protests.

COMMON SENSE ….tells us that, feeding a populist fever, while starving real political action….fixes nothing. Simply put slogans don’t produce results, political action….does.

COMMON SENSE….also tells us that, while Wall Street and its high-flying sharpies do have much to answer for, the real culprits, the real skunks in our national woodpile, is the class of elitist, self-serving, career politicos we taxpaying voters have allowed to evolve over the past decades. Wall Street is just its co-conspirator for manipulating our economic and financial systems to their advantage….not ours.

COMMON SENSE….therefore tells us such protests are misdirected energy and aimed at the wrong target. Hooting and hollering, banging on drums, and hurling nasty epithets at Wall Street fat cats might briefly hurt their feelings, before they run crying all the way back to their piggy-banks and plush lifestyles, and light up a Cuban cigar….but accomplish little else beyond that.

COMMON SENSE ….suggests that if these protesters were doing more than just venting their frustrations and ire, and had the smarts to have read the Constitution, they would be channeling these towards starting a Second American Revolution….by the ballot, not the bullet, because they would realize that ours is the only country in the world that provides its people with the means to do so that way, all without firing a shot, rioting in the streets, or erecting a guillotine.

COMMON SENSE….then tells us that the way to accomplish that is to go “back to the future” just as our forefathers did. Only now we have the advantages of modern technologies to do so, instead of just goose quills, ink, and parchment, technologies that allows us to coordinate populist energies and focus on the real source of both economic and political power in this country. It’s not Wall Street. It’s certainly not the White House, that’s just the prize of political warfare between the two major parties. The one, a herd of braying jackasses, whose only mantra is – tax (the rich) and spend -, and the second, a pack of trumpeting pachyderms, whose only mantra is – cut taxes, cut spending -. Nor is it even that private club of moneyed interests we call, the Senate, whose only function seems to be to oppose anything and everything with partisan abandon, leaving us with the only branch of our government where we, the people, have any chance or means to recapture the governance of our country for ourselves, that is, the House of Representatives.

COMMON SENSE….thus leads us to conclude that if we want to achieve real economic, political, and social change, the House of Representatives is where we can make it happen. And the reason the House should be our target for making those things happen is because, by our Constitution, it controls….the money….that is….it is the one which decides how we are to tax ourselves for the common good, and, how those tax revenues are to be spent, for the common good. So its powers over the purse strings affects how, and in what way, all other issues and policies that may be proposed, by anyone, will be applied.

COMMON SENSE….then says….okay, smartass, how do we do it? Here are some clues:
a) There are 435 Congressional Districts, from all fifty states.

b) What if, instead of camping out on Wall Street or elsewhere, the protesters went back to their respective districts, and made a grass-root effort to get truly “independent” non-party affiliated member elected? And what if they only managed to get just one such member elected from each of those fifty states? What would that produce?

c) It would produce a voting bloc, an independent caucus of 43-44 that would be the BALANCE OF VOTING POWER in the House, which no one could ignore,
and, that power, would help effect the kinds of changes we all want.

d) We taxpaying voters would also have a means of being able to serve in Congress, as citizen legislators, rather than some party-chosen, or special interest careerist hacks.

Well, the blueprint and the step by step details to organize and mount such an effective populist political action of this kind has been available for a number of years. It’s only since the advent of the Internet that it’s now accessible for anyone to see. So for those who want real change to happen, let them go to the following link at www.centurionus.com and check it out for themselves. Who knows, instead of just camping out on Wall Street, or in front of the Fed, they might find the means to get themselves elected to Congress to do what needs doing…. instead.

Our forefathers made the first Revolution, and created America. Let this be the Second American Revolution to recharge America, and, we only have some 12 months to make it happen, so, now’s the time to quit bitching….and start switching!

CENTURION