One of the phrases that springs to my mind when it comes to politics (or organized religion for that matter) is: “Do not pay any attention to the man behind the curtain.” I call that kind of line a distraction statement. Sometimes, it’s futile (as it was in the Wizard of Oz) but they have been known to work on a gullible public.

I’ll translate what that means to me: “Just listen to what I tell you to do, and not look at what I do.” I hear that a lot from our so called leaders that we’re to blindly follow. Well, that’s what they’d like us to do. But I’m not the kind to meekly follow anyone and I certainly do not blindly trust anyone. That, my dearest readers, is a quality I am not capable of.

What gets me is that our “patriotic” leaders want us to simply let them do everything and get in a snit when some of the sharper eyed citizens call them out on a misdeed. We have people imploring us to be patriotic, and have outright said that to question authority indicates that we aren’t. If it weren’t for some of our forefathers having the courage to stand up to the British, there would be no America as we know it. Questioning authority is our heritage. Questioning our president and other leaders is what we’re supposed to do–it is our duty in fact—and we shouldn’t let anyone convince us otherwise.

I guess that people would think that this is a call to arms, a call to begin positive changes in our country. They would be correct. This is our country. Go and change it for the better.