WHAT WE CAN DO NOW: The Real Battlefield is Your Hometown

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

I'm not talking about the “wrong party” being in the White House. These are the times that try the American soul, and ours are tried by a government of strangers.

We are told to look to a distant capital for solutions, a place that has become the seat of our economic containment. We are governed by an economy of spreadsheets, a new kind of monarchy headquartered on Wall Street that sees our homes, our towns, and our futures as mere entries on a ledger to be bought and sold.

They offer us two political brands, but a single owner.

This is not a government of, by, and for the people; it is a management firm, and we are the assets being liquidated.

To expect relief from the very architects of this system is a fool's errand. It is the logic of the prisoner begging his jailer for a key that was never forged. The power to alter our condition does not reside in their halls. It never has.

Our sovereignty resides in our ability to solve our own problems.

The first American Revolution was not won by petitions to the King. It was won by farmers, merchants, and tradesmen who decided to govern themselves. They formed Committees of Correspondence, town by town, to create a new network of power. They understood that independence was not a gift to be granted, but a reality to be built, from the ground up.

So it is today.

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The work of our time is not to reform the spreadsheets of the few, but to rebuild the Main Streets of the many.

This is the common sense of our age: the most potent act of rebellion is to make your own community strong, prosperous, and independent of their fragile system.

The first step is not a protest, but a survey. It is to know our own territory better than the enemy does. Ask these questions of your own town (directly or through resesrch), not as a complaint, but as a battle plan:

▪︎ What is the most pressing, unsolved problem that makes life harder for your neighbors?

▪︎ What local resource—an empty building, a failing farm, a collection of skilled people—is being wasted?

▪︎ Who are the honest, capable citizens in your town, a jury of your true peers, that you would trust to solve a problem?

The answers will draw a map to your own independence.

The crown has shown its nature. It is time we remember ours. The work begins now.

- E.F.