Hope
- Sep 8, 2023
- 2 min read
Who feels hope that a sea-change is happening?
Sheridan County is evolving. Wyoming is evolving. The old ways are under review, by the Citizenry, having found the old ways lacking in their service to The People.
As this new spirit of optimism begins to blossom and spread. More and more individuals are awakening to the realization that self-governance is actually a real and a very possible thing.
It has one very basic necessity. The People must lead. In order to lead they must be involved in the process. To be involved in the process means having the information needed to make informed decisions.
Informed can be a tricky concept, if we allow others to define it for us. Yet, again, stick to the basics.
What you personally observe?
What you learn from others you trust?
What the majority, being governed, accept as fact?
From these perspectives, all an active citizen has to do. Is insist that their representatives represent the will of The People. And when they, choose not to, stop them.
Not complicated. Self-governance never was.
Hope is contagious. The only cost is choice to accept it. Sharing hope benefits both the receiver and the giver.
So the next political argument you happen into. Consider choosing hope and offering it to those in the conversation.
Ask the question: What can; we all agree on? Then leave it at that.
Focusing on the positive things which we do agree on as a Citizenry. Ensuring those are the topics or issues our representatives are addressing. That is enough. That is self-governance in a constitutional representative republic.
A little hope may be all that is needed to create this reality.
So ya.
Hope.
Well said! I see the tide rising as more and more people take an active interest in their civic life, and I mean that as distinct from politics.
A representative government doesn't run itself. It requires engaged people.
Well said, Andy, and it reminds me of what Ron Paul repeatedly said on the national stage. Regarding hope, I believe that finding what most of us can agree on as we continue our discourse really is the best and most productive strategy. We are all in this together. I become less kind, however, when true harm is perpetrated on the populace as we saw with the entire Covid response. At that point, mincing words seems almost disingenuous.
Hope is important. And it's especially important to those who have been face down in the trenches for a while. This is a good article and a good reminder to all of us who wish to inspire more of our peers to join the Constitutional Freedom movement, which includes a lot of self governance.
The notion that govt should be taking care of us is not true and it continuously gets us in trouble. We need to take back those activities from the govt that we should be doing ourselves. That includes taking care of the less fortunate or the needy in our communities.
We've been told for a long time the govt is responsible for local welfare. But that'…