America Shared

2% of Americans are still getting more and of the Country and 98 % are still getting less of the land and advantages. That difference is greater than it has ever been in the entire history of the United States of America.

            Why the difference? I suspect the difference is because we do not know how to govern ourselves. How could that be?

            A country needs to be worked and managed. In a republic or a democracy that work and that managing is up to the citizens of that country. Where citizens do not take up that responsibility there is movement toward slavery and in this modern world slave are becoming useless.

            In the US there is an ever growing concentration of wealth in the control of fewer a fewer persons. Health is in the control of fewer. Housing is in the control of fewer. More and more of our wealth is spent on killing. That is because citizens have abdicated their responsibility as citizens. Now we are beginning to die sooner than we have for a very long time. Let's live more and kill less.

            Enjoy the video.

                                                                                            rcs

Do it right now

 Get together a small group      

                These few words are directed to citizens of the USA and anyone else who is curious.

                The purpose of the groups I speak of is teaching one another about the nature a value of what could be called participatory governance, trust and cooperation in a group, the actual working of government in the US, theoretic nature of republics and democracy, and that which the group decides to learn the workings of. I hope it will be about participation. It could about participatory democracy.

                It could be about freedom. What freedom? It could be the freedom to cooperate in taking care of one another in a fair and meaningful way.

                Some important rules for a strong group include:

No enemies.

Each member has frequent and equal opportunity to speak to the whole attentive group.

        A  good start can be sitting down and listening to one another; hear each other. An important purpose is to begin to trust each other a bit more. Appropriate trust is a great power. 

            Begin. Start right now.

            Thank you for reading.

                                                                                    Richard 

Who Will "Us" Be?

 What are our protections? How do we keep from being lost in the great world? Family helps. Neighborhood helps. Statehood helps. Our nation helps. But we need a more. Dialogue may help get the needed more.