American Antibodies.

I am amazed by those who have taken no interest in spite of themselves. This is not about party divides but I have long believed that we would rip ourselves apart with party politics. It spreads hate and negativity amongst the very people with whom we should love and care for the most, each other. I love my country but right now I am not proud of it, and I would like to reclaim from the 1% who have stolen it from us, and I would like to extinguish the complacency of the middle class that sits by and allows it to happen. Stand up for yourselves and your fellow people. Take back our country and take back our rights and so on Saturday we will start by exercising our First Amendment right! May we inspire and may we withstand the insults of those willing to deter of from our goals!

Having a conversation with one of my best friend’s this morning I stated how shocked I really am by the fact that not a single one of them seemed to have any interest in the movement. She remarked that she didn’t really know what was going on, and right there is the difference. I hear a hint of something happening and I want to know, have to know what it is and what is going on. We have so many problems in this country and I have just been hoping beyond hope that something like this would happen, and it is my fault for being so quiet before now. Quiet is not a word usually associated with me, but it is true when it comes to this point. I live in South Carolina and appose almost all of the states regulations and laws. Now of course I don’t know all of them, I mean I probably know more about them than our governor but that is another story. I have always felt strongly about politics and at times have acted very strongly too, but in the past few years I have let myself be quieted. I don’t want to ruffle too many feathers. I think I really just don’t want to dislike people and if we start talking politics I am probably not going to agree with you. This will lead to me getting heated, can’t help it you should meet my father, and then I will just shut down. I become a petulant child when it comes to politics. I like to listen to other’s opinions on a number of issues but there are many things that are written in stone for me. Now my friends have listened to my rants for years and a couple of them used to be right up there ranting with me…but most of those friends have moved away from me.

I love my friends but they are completely settled. They are married with a house and a dog and DVR. They have been educated and have health insurance, where is their need to stand up and protest, they have what they want. They may agree with the movement or disagree but I wouldn’t know…really the only response to my participating in the Occupy movement was that the human microphone thing seems cool. That really just hit me in the gut. This country can be great, and I truly believe we can get it there again but it has to be us. I think we can agree that the political atmosphere in Washington has become so convoluted that there is really no real progress being made in either direction. Because those politicians are no longer there representing the people of their cities and states, they are representing the new constituency, corporations. These corporations are buying everyone and the price is the American people…and that includes my friends.

Now I use them as an example of what I call the middle class complacency; because I know them, but they are not alone. We are all having a tough time in this economy but it isn’t it our duty as free citizens to ask ourselves what really happened to get us here? And to ask who is being hurt by this? Who is gaining from that hurt and loss? I believe it is human law, intrinsic and pure, that we take care of other people. All other people. If we go against that law for long enough we will be punished, and we have been ignoring that law for a long time. We are hunters and gatherers but we hunt and gather for the good of those around us. Somehow we have gotten so far away from that, we have become what is mine is mine and you can’t have it. Of course that too is natural, the territorial nature is basic…but when did it become that we will watch those around us, in our own country, starve and freeze and go without so much and still not be willing to give up a little bit of what we have gained.

I should give more, I could do more. This is what keeps me up at night. Why am I not out there fighting for those who can’t? I actually think everyone can they just don’t know the how. I believe education is the key to all success; we have to learn to gain. If you don’t know how you are being swindled by the current system then you would have no reason to fight against it…just like having an illness if you don’t know what is wrong you will never figure out how to get well. And there is the rub, America is sick and we can all help make her better again. It is going to be a long and hard battle, there will be moments where we might not think we are going to make it but we can and we will keep fighting.

We are such a young country and our internal antibodies don’t seem to have been as important to us as our external ones. We have been fighting everyone else’s wars while ignoring our own. We see symptoms of illness in the world and we send our tanks and our drones to try and make it better, while being completely blindsided by the fact that our country is being worn down, and weakened from the inside out. We have been and continue to be crippled by those who stand at the top.

We have a virus and it is time for us to fight it, we are the antibodies that can fix this country. Let’s fight the illness and take back our America.