Imagination

The United States of America was built with imagination and innovation. Something I see the American Government is really lacking right now. We are stuck in an old fashioned capitalistic society where big business is running the government instead of the people (remember For the People By the People?). Because of that, the Republic we live in is no longer such a republic.

I don’t fault any one person or group but I blame complacency. We became lackadaisical because we were the leading nation in the world after WWII. We’ve become complacent and abandoned the imagination that made this country great.

The group that is in power now, no matter if Liberal or Conservative, Democrat or Republican, is resisting change. They along with big business are benefitting from this old, outdated system.

Many people could compare the United States to other Democratic countries and show all the flaws. There are many flaws in the U.S. system but we have to remember, we, (as American’s) were the first country to put in place a system ran by the people. The U.S. was a trial country, most democratic nations took the good things from the U.S. and integrated it into their own while omitting the aspects that weren’t functioning properly.

It’s time for a change in this nation. Not just a personnel change, a system change. Instead of legislation in favor of big business we need to be legislating in favor of the people.

The form of capitalism we are following has taken the people out of this nation built on people. It has taken the individual from an influential standpoint to an outsider. Oil companies, car manufacturers, Wal Mart, the entire financial sector, and many other corporations have taken the individual's spot from the people in the; For the People By the People Republic.

Because the powerful few are still benefitting from this outdated system, they are not only resisting change but holding down the liberal (changing) ideas of those who are sick of the system that is now in place.

Now there are arguments of other systems around the world that may be better suited for a nation such as the United States. This is irrelevant. If the U.S. was the first to implement a successful Democratic and capitalistic system why should we look to another nation and use their system? Shouldn’t we be depending on the imagination of great people to bring us to a better time and place? We depended on people like George Washington, John Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and many more to lay the foundation for a nation with the potential to lead the world from a dictatorial, uncompromising, and unequal state to an equal and compassionate place to live.

Where has the imagination gone? We as a people can’t just complain, for change to occur there has to be imagination, innovation and action. Talk to your friends, talk to your family, talk to your representative. I don’t know about you but I want to live in a country fit for a king or fit for a peasant. I want to live in a place fit for everyone. All men are created equal, a theory first explored by philosopher John Locke then imbedded into the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson. That’s where I want to live.