You can govern yourself. You can govern with others. You can learn about political planks and political platforms, how to do governance, and about political organization. It's about active citizenship, civics, a more perfect union, and we the people. It's about participation. So, the focus of these many posts is on democracy, justice, citizenship, governance, co-operation, and democracy.
Abdication
Too many American citizens have give up their citizen rights and responsibilities. Their are reasons for their abdication, but that does not rectify their personal losses and their loss of national identity.
RCS
The Overwhelming Majority of Us Have Given Up On Governance
Most of us have little understanding for democratic responsibility. Many of us have little understanding of democracy. How do you differ between a democracy and a republic!
How does one learn to work our Constitution? How does one select ones representatives? How does one direct and support representatives? How do we all support our judiciary?
When we fail to govern ourselves, who will govern us! Why have we failed to support the beginning of instruction of the use of our Constitution in grade school? Once the elementary teaching of self governance-cooperation in our republic was begun in a great number of elementary schools.
We continue to give up our responsibility and right to govern ourselves together. We are allowing the gutting of our Constitution. What may we be doing to bring harm to ourselves, our children, our grandchildren? When we abdicate our right and responsibility to self govern together we become less use and have less power. Onec that was a move toward slavery. In the modern world slavery is becoming of less and less use.
What we fail to do now affects us now. What we do now also affects those who after us. What will become of most of our grandchildren who may find it difficult to be no better than a slave!
I hope that you will attempt to self govern together. For me, to govern in a democratic republic is a fine way to do so. You may find that self-governing together is useful and satisfying way of taking care of yourselves. With your knowledge of cooperation, it is not difficult to make a good beginning.
RCS
Why have a majority of recent generations of Americans refused the responsibility for the governance of America? Have their parents and teachers failed them? Why have they failed to learn the workings of our laws? Why have they seemed to have failed to understand the working of the rules of democracy and of American republicanism? Why are they not using our system for governing ourselves. Why have they so easily given up their governance?
O when will they ever learn? It has become very late?
rcs
Americans and others have not only given up their citizenship responsibilities, but have given up their responsibility for helping their children and youth to be effective members of society. The have the excuse that their parents did not carry out their parenting responsibility. Also that the help of professional educators and others was scares.
Have you noticed any results?
RCS
The United States of America is losing its status as a republic.
When a judge can be arrested without due process, what have we become. With such lawlessness there is no republic. What hope is there for democracy where the people refuse to govern. There may be a time when it is to late for citizens to learn.
RCS
Americans have had a goddess.
Some americans have known her name.
Where can you find depictions of her?
What do you know about her?
America has a goddess?
Richard Sheehan
Why do you think that American citizens have abdicated their citizenship?
What do you believe is the nature of our citizenship?
How are the rights and responsibilities of citizenship carried out in a republic?
How did you learn of your rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
Who is responsible for the actions of your representatives?
Why have so many have so valued republicanism and democracy so highly?
How have you learned the nature of your governance? Did you learn from your parents? Did you learn from your school? What have you done in the company of other citizens to learn to govern yourselves. Why did others before you choose democracy and republicanism to govern themselves? How did they work their citizenship?
Richard
President Trump is doing much good, important work! However, the why he is doing it may do much damage to this Republic. That is not his fault. It is our fault: the fault of US citizenry. In this Republic we decided to use representatives. We have not been using them. We turned them loose without our support, guidance, control, or anything! Without our active support our representatives lose their power and we lose and we without their service lose our republic. Without our republic we can become powns, slaves, useless, or... Together actively nominating, electing, supporting, and using our representatives well we stand. Without working our republic can we even be we.
We are very important. We benefit by thinking more about us and talking more about us and how to support one another and our representatives. Doing so makes us effective citizens and the better part of Our Republic.
Richard Sheehan
The quality and effectiveness of our representatives is our responsibility. Their ability and wisdom is up to us.