What’s going on?

These are momentous times. There is much friction that may lead up to a new third party in the USA. Maybe the two present parties will promote our USA lives. Maybe they won’t. And the former national Whig party went down in our past, so it has happened.

Most of the third parties we are familiar with in our past are associated with an individual. This time the hints of a third party are associated with an idea.

Those who have history habits will appreciate the differences between us and the rest of the world. We USA people are not necessarily the same as them in the much of the old world, and even the third world; just we are comfortable, so to speak, in our new world. We have different cultural values and even our own kind of government. Our ancestors came here to get away from their former societies and cultures. And they made us what we are, today...an American melting pot.

There is much friction here in the USA. The status quo is being reinforced it seems by both of the national parties, and even old ideas promoted; even old theories about how to make society happy. Dinosaurs go down hard with resistance, it seems.

Many of these present ideas are all failed ideas, and I happen to live in a part of our country where most of these well intentioned ideas have failed. None of us want to starve, go cold, and die early; or even help dead beats.

And even good ideas need funding, if we can afford these good ideas. And we Americans generate a lot of taxes as part of our wealth. A long time ago our politicians had to fight over how to distribute the pot they have; now it seems nobody assigns priorities which used to be what politicians did. So now, it seems, every thing gets funded, and we go into borrowing to fund all this stuff.

And there are ways to express our American nature to try help our less well off citizens, even the dead beats. We have a system, just not a total government system.

Unfortunately it seems that many people will now have to suffer in order to bring about change. And we can argue and debate until we are blue in the face about what is right and wrong, but in the end it comes down to people, all the people. And most Americans, like most people, just want to get through life as best they can, and make life better for their children.

We had a Civil War about 1860 or so. While it could happen again, I think Americans are more inclined to use their votes these days.

And what about holding responsible people accountable with today's present regulations, like even firing them. That is a another alternative to more regulation, for example.

I think, and hope, we will vote at the school board, city, county, state, and federal levels offered to voters.

There are better American alternatives than revolution, or civil war.

In the end, it is healthy what is happening. After all, one in their country must justify their existence and way of life every so often. And then we vote as a way to make all this happen.

As the title of this post suggests, much change is in the air. These are momentous times. The last federal election in 2008 suggests as much about the desire for change.