A watershed time in our Nation’s history

In the future historians will write about this time as one of great change. The time is not a specific date, or even a year. It is not even a Civil War period. The time is one where Americans took back their leadership from the status quo that has risen since the end of World War II.

The signs of this change are everywhere, yet the status quo politicians and their hired minions go on as in the past. Fine. Let them be surprised. Those that read the pundits, who are mostly just as in the dark, focus on who won what debate as if that really mattered, or was an indicator of future voter actions, or was an ESPN blood sport commentary. The bottom line seems to be all about the republicans and the democrats, and ignores the largest group of all, the “independents”. The general line of reasoning seems to be two fold. First the republicans and democrats have to come up with a nominee from their own base, all the while ignoring the “independents”. Second the nominees then “move towards the middle” which usually means switching positions just for gaining votes, mostly of “independents”. In the old days, it was called lying, or to be kinder, just being a politician. All this assumes the “independent” vote is ignoring all that is going on today, and the established strategies will continue to work in the future.

Yet too many American voters throughout the land are perceiving the republicans and democrats as being two flavors of the same thing. Yes, the ideologies may vary, but the other things so important to Americans has not changed. The 2006 congressional election results expressed frustration with the attitude of politicians in D.C., the influence of money and the lobbyists that seem to buy too many of their votes, and the icing on the cake, the democrats are just as bad having been given an opportunity to do what they said about changing things. Further action is called for by the voters. One example is term limits. We already have a Constitutional Amendment for Presidential Term Limits. Now is the time for Senators and Representatives to also be limited in their terms. Until then, regular elections will work just fine, though not as assuredly as an Amendment would do.

Just who is looking out for our National Interests? The answer to this question suggests the watershed time in our Nation’s history is coming shortly. And it will be through elections of citizen politicians throughout the land who are Americans first. Most will probably not be “official” republicans or democrats. These parties have had their chance, have their performance records, and their status quo beliefs. Now it is time for the voters to change things, since the politicians can’t. And the demographics already suggest all this. Most of the voters are “independents”.