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Published – Brownsville Herald 6-18-2006
Schools have closed for the summer and the fall elections cannot be far away!
I have railed in these columns about how few folks voted and exhorted more folks to get involved and I continue to encourage everyone who lives in our United States to join the party of your choice and get involved. Let the party leaders hear your concerns directly; don’t wait for a media outlet to divine what you believe the country should look like.
However, all this time the only thing I have been doing has been to write these columns and pontificate on what everyone else should be doing.
Over the last several months, I finally listened to my own advice and joined a party and got involved. I selected a party that best reflected my values at this point in my life.
“The research I have been doing in the last few years for these columns helped me to see that the two-party system is quickly becoming a single entity of two factions of what appears to be a cross of socialism and fascism. It seems to support a government control of people and resources based on the dispensation or withholding of benefits and enforced by a force peopled by those who personally attack anyone with a perspective different than theirs. The enforcers also don’t seem to be bothered by a lack of facts as they seem to create them as needed. More »