Go back home

Anybody remember a guy named Abraham Lincoln? Among other things, he made a little speech one day. He made reference to "government of the people, by the people, for the people."
Remember that? Here's a news flash for you, dear reader. YOU ARE THE PEOPLE. All of us together. Can anyone here disagree with my stating that this country, this state, this county, this municipality where you live is a mess? Its a world class clusterfuck. Why is that? How did it get this way? We did it. We caused it. Its our fault, yours and mine, 'cause we sat back on our fat, dumb lazy asses and we did very little to stop it. We did nothing. Another guy said, and I paraphrase, excuse me, its late and I'm not looking it, up something along the lines of it only takes good men to do nothing to allow evil to triumph over good. What's going on now in our "government" is unmitigated evil and again, I say, we did nothing to stop it. All we had to do was spend a few minutes of our day twice a year to go to the polls and vote. Just go and vote.
Now, you say to me, "its too late, the system has been so wrong for so long its beyond hope" and I say to you wrong. Dead wrong, its not too late and the fix is so ridiculously simple. About a third of the population on average elects all of the government and a good portion of THAT third are zealots of either the left or the right and they vote for the people who pander to them. All of that means nothing anymore. We can fix this by doing this: vote them out. Democrat, Republican, Green, Independent, Libertarian means nothing. What ever they are, if they are in office NOW vote them out. ANY incumbent. ANY present office holder. Take a minute next time the election cycle comes around, find out who holds the office now and VOTE THEM OUT. Nothing will get the attention of these professional, career politicians who have stacked the deck so squarely in their own favor by altering district boundaries and election laws quicker than one election that sees a majority of the incumbents, regardless of party affiliation, length of time in office or how good looking they are on TV, nothing will get their attention quicker than realizing that for the first time in history people went to the polls and resoundingly sent a message:
Go back home. You've been here long enough. Take your government pension, your life long health care, take it all, you can have it just GO BACK HOME!
Try it my friends. What have we got to lose? Take the time. Make the effort. Find out who they are and just send them home.