“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” -Thomas Jefferson

The power of democracy and the American dream is the myth that all can partake in the feast, all can through hard work and ethical behavior reach for the stars and settle for the planets. However increasingly, the deck is stacked against us. The game is rigged. The odds, always in favour of the house, are seemingly only in favour of the house. When the people demand fairness and accountability, the politicians must be answerable to those calls. Or as we are seeing early in the presidency of Donald J Trump, revolution is abound. In a place where there is one gun for ever man, woman and child, this is no peaceful sentiment. But thus far those in protest are being peaceful. So far. The real rebellion will occur in 2 years if the momentum is conserved across time and distance. If it is, then this will be the first rebellion in history fought not with guns and bombs but with the ballot and a stroke of the pen. The question can only be what is to happen if the elites and business tycoons who own the politicians fail to take heed of the coming storm. Will they brush it aside as they have in the past, ignore the Lilliputians once more and grant themselves even more of the collective wealth by government tax breaks and outright hand outs? Or will the dawn arrive where the rich notice the unsustainability of their constant actions. Where people are burdens by debt for health care, Imprisoned for lifetimes for minor crimes, all because some herb is deemed illegal? Traffic tickets as revenue agents and road piracy targeting out of state visitors travel on highways as a means of seizing cash to fund cash strapped police forces? 240 years ago, the rallying cry of “No taxation without representation” cause the Colonies to take on the world’s only super power and win their freedom. Are we seeing that once again the people have found their backs to the wall and are taking action, organizing and prepared to backlash against the republicans and democrats alike, who only favour their rich donors. A president who has more skeletons in his closet that he shares with Putin’s Russia and a court system that allows for some social progress but is firmly in the interest of business? Can we see the tide is turning? Can we see a new wind blowing in a wind of change? Or is it, just a new tempest in a tea pot. The last such wind from the right paid for by the Koke brothers, blow in the ill wind of right wing do nothing to help people only help ourselves. Will this new wind blow the dust off the new deal; bring in progressive socialist legislation on health care, taxation, and new amendment to get money out of politics? As of this writing, the next election is some 19 months away. Where in politics a week is an eternity, where will we be then so long into the future? Hopefully, the time will be used to gather money and people. Mobilize a work force dedicated to introducing progressive legislation and enforcing the electoral choices above the whim of the representative. In one insane statistic; Americans overwhelmingly support background checks from the low 80 to a high in the 90 percentiles. Yet, lobbies like the NRA prevent any sort of waiting period at all. And actively resist to the point of targeting people that dare vote in such measures. This is a democracy? This is a Republic? Jefferson was right; it is time to shed some patriot’s blood and the blood tyrants upon that tree of liberty, in a death by a million votes, one ballot at a time.