Sapere Aude
Aug 23, 2017 · 2 min read

Let’s be more specific here.

Speaking about the Electoral College as if it were an ambiguous institution rather than made up of individual people ‘we elect' and appoint, leaves a hole in the chain of connection and self-responsibility we EACH need to own and charge ourselves with.

(Because if you’ve ever had the sinking, despairing feeling that your vote doesn’t count — you’re right! It does not count for the election of our President. But it does count for everyone else , including the people who do elect the President— gerrymandering aside (another topic for critical discussion.)

The people who make up the Electoral College are the people we DO have control over.

Until the Twelfth Amendment can be repealed, or refined to address the now unconstitutional way in which our Presidents are appointed, WE MUST FOCUS ON THE MEMBERS OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE — the who’s we are electing. The people responsible for appointing the President.

These are also the people we must hold their feet to the fires of accountability and responsibility.

Let’s begin a national reeducation drive, teaching each other and ourselves our national and human civilization history.

For as wiser men who have come before us have noted, we cannot know our present or future without knowing and understanding our past. (Plato, Cicero, Patrick Henry)

Let us become citizens worthy of the lives, limbs and blood lost to gain and preserve our Independence, Liberty and Freedom.

Our Constitution was meant to grow with us, to guide us and give us something more noble than ourselves to strive for.

Isn’t it about time we shed the wrongs of a nurtured and blind culture. And generate a society wherein the greatest ideal of our Declaration Of Independence is actualized — “that ALL MEN are created equal”.

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“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”

“It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope and pride. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.”

— Patrick Henry

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” — George Orwell

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