Outline for a New American Revolution

by Dan Ruuska     revision 01.26.05
 
This document is an exerpt from
How to take back America from the homeland enemy.

Think as big -- and as morally -- to fix America as we did to create America. Just follow the lead of our human ancestry and nation's founders: wield the genetic and cultural human power of our species and the supreme legal power of ordinary citizens. Both forms of civic power are embedded in our Constitution. Trouble is, a Homeland Enemy and its media machine turned that power off, including our ability to see the enemy and sense the danger. The trick is to switch the power back on and take charge again: execute Elements 1-4 of a New American Revolution.

To pull off this long-overdue, major maintenance and tune-up of our democracy -- that is, to again have a government of, by, and for We the People, to again receive all the benefits of America listed in the first sentence of our Constitution, to again have citizen governance and myriad forms of well-being the Homeland Enemy and its media machine are fast stripping away -- we may need to create a conservative-and-liberal National Civic-Action Congress to organize and direct this New American Revolution. Which could lead to a new major political party, one that could resoundingly defeat the Republican and Democratic Parties who represent and serve the consolidated wealth and power hurting us.

Element 1. Issue a nationwide Full Red Alert about the Homeland Enemy, a dangerous political cancer that began to flare up a quarter-century ago: the consolidation of executive/legislative/judicial federal powers, wealth-corporate power, Christian-Right religious power, and mass-media power into an unbridled right-wing state power that already subverted our government of, by, and for We the People into a government of, by, and for Consolidated Wealth and Power; today that ENEMY WITHIN exploits and hurts America, and the world, at a faster and faster pace. Explain how the Framers intended "insure domestic Tranquility," "no religious Test[s]," trial by jury, separation of powers, and separation of church and state to prevent wealth and power from ever consolidating into an ENEMY WITHIN. Explain the full extent of their lawlessness: how they violate our Constitution to its core (Constitution violations), including by violating international law (International-law violations). Explain the full extent of how much Essence of America -- citizen governance, citizen well-being -- they strip from America: how we already we lost our representative government and democratic processes; how we are fast losing justice, civic unity and cooperation toward the common good, national security, the general welfare, and liberty for ourselves and our posterity. Explain how the Homeland Enemy's advertising/PR and media machines keep the public in the dark about all of this wrongdoing, and how they disable our civic power -- our natural human power and supreme legal power (see Element 2) -- that we need to protect and preserve our nation. Promote the solution: "We, the People ... provide for the common defence" against that ENEMY WITHIN in a mass revolt of good citizenship. Warn and inform your county, such as by circulating a link to CivicPowerUSA.org, as patriotic and moral duty or selfishly for the benefits: hugely reduced taxes and halted fleecing of citizens by corporations -- worth $15k per taxpayer a year on the average (see Element 4) -- as well as greater social and economic well-being, a much safer America, all for yourself and your family and posterity. A nationwide Full Red Alert about the Homeland Enemy, a nationwide call for the Common Defense against the Homeland Enemy (a national-security measure authorized by our Constitution), and formation of a conservative-and-liberal national civic-action congress (similar to the Continental Congress of the American Revolution) to direct this needful and lawful civic revolt would drive the success of Elements 2-4.

Element 2. Restore core wisdom and humanity to public education, including to instill citizen ability and desire to think and act toward the common good. Restore teaching of "American" democracy, including about "American" values and supreme power of citizens, and add dangers of "Amerikan" democracy to Civics 101. During the past quarter-century, the Homeland Enemy and its media machine have been expunging these basics from our public schools, public mind, federal governance, American culture, and today the erasure pace accelerates. They erase core wisdom and humanity to disable the public's genetic and cultural ability to stop domination and exploitation by wealth and power (Why wealth and power erase wisdom-and-humanity from religious and civic life). They erase understanding of Civics 101 to neuter the power of We the People to govern America. Even today's White House, Congress, and Supreme Court are to blame: instead of providing the very finest civic examples for America to follow, they often demonstrate contempt for the natural wisdom-and-humanity of mankind the Framers enshrined into our Constitution, and thus help to destroy the good citizenship and civic power of our population and posterity. Besides asking our public-education system from state legislators and school boards to school administrators and classroom teachers, also ask families and public figures and our mass media to help restore Wisdom-&-Humanity-101 education, and Civics-101 education, to our nation. Future generations of clear-thinking socially-responsible good citizens would strengthen America's ability to carry out Elements 3-4.

Element 3. Arm-twist our White House, Congress, and mass media to switch clients: from serving Wealth and Power back to serving We the People. If this effort fails, proceed to Element 4.

Element 4. Create a new political party, devoted to fulfilling our Constitution and serving We the People, that could resoundingly defeat the two major parties that violate our Constitution and serve Wealth and Power (America's political monopoly).

How could a new political party, say a "USA Party" that represents We the People and not Wealth and Power, quickly grow from scratch and win landslide victories? With just the first four planks of its platform:

• Savings. Market the 300-to-1 profitability of public-financed political campaigns that would cost a mere $50 per taxpayer a year: advertise how no more bribery and no more payoffs would save the public $2 trillion a year, an average of $15k per taxpayer a year, in tax and corporate fleecing.

• Safety. Expose how the Homeland Enemy recruited, armed, and trained more than 100,000 Islamic fighters for guerilla warfare and terrorism, expended thousands of their lives for Cold-War and free-market aims, discarded the Muslim force when their jihad services were no longer needed, and how that proxy military weapon including bin Laden and al-Qaeda stayed alive, grew and tentacled worldwide, then predictably aimed and fired itself at the heart of its creator on 9/11 (What is the "War on Terror"). Expose how the Homeland Enemy's many other assaults on America -- such as on car safety, environmental safety, cost and availability of healthcare, workplace safety, food safety, drug safety -- causes an annual death toll that's at least twenty-times higher than 9/11's one-time death toll. Promote how that remorseless hurting and killing by the Homeland Enemy would abate with Wealth and Power kept under tight control by a We-the-People government and a vigilant reformed press.

• Law and order. Advertise how the Homeland Enemy's high crimes against America and their crimes against the world -- violations of our Constitution and violations of international law -- would stop after their consolidated wealth and power is neutralized and prudently kept on a leash by a "USA Party," by watchful citizens, and by a watchdog media. Play up how America's return to domestic and international lawfulness would generate a bonanza of goodwill and well-being, and make our country and the world better and safer places.

• Values. The purpose of America is to provide well-being to people, to care for people, as stated in the first sentence of our Constitution: "We, the People [not rulers or God] ... establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility [needed for civic unity and cooperation toward the common good], provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." Those are America's values, enshrined in the Law of the Land. But the Homeland Enemy and its media machine, as they foster corporate values and religious values that are selfish and inhumane (but are spun to look righteous to fool us), strip away our justice, our civic unity and cooperation toward the common good, our national security, our general welfare frightfully so including by stealthy transfer of wealth from the poor and middle-class to the well-off (trickle-up Reverse Robin Hooding of America), bury our posterity under that social-and-economic carnage topped by heavy federal debt and its finance charges, and thus violate our American values. Besides stripping away our many types of well-being, they are systematically disabling (as summarized in Elements 1 and 2) the ability of citizen governance to carry out the goodness in our Constitution -- an even darker and deeper violation of our American values. They also strip away wealth and well-being from weaker nations who possess financial assets and natural resources they covet, as with Iraq, and demonize and hurt those who object. A "USA Party," backed by We the People and a socially-responsible press, would stop those assaults on America's values, heal the wounds, and morally lead our nation back up to humanity.

For additional insight into Elements 1-4, and for tips on how to accomplish them, go to CivicPowerUSA.org and Summary & Tips.

The tea tax England imposed on Colonial America -- taxation without representation, a tax in essence paid to a corporation which then hurt the citizens who paid the tax -- triggered the Boston Tea Party and ignited our American Revolution (REFERENCE).

Again we have taxation without representation: today our White House and Congress represent Consolidated Wealth and Power, not We the People. Our federal government is now a bribe-and-payoff system (REFERENCE) that the White House and Congress and its Judiciary protect with a nonsensical "free-speech" legal argument (REFERENCE) and an invalid "corporate-personhood" legal concept (REFERENCE), illegalities that We the People can put an end to.

Again we in essence pay taxes directly to corporations, who then harm us in return: today more than $800 billion of our yearly taxes go to corporations (REFERENCE), who in return hurt us financially (REFERENCE) and bodily (REFERENCE).

Conditions are ripe for a New American Revolution.

Our first revolt created America. This revolt would fix America. It would be a long-overdue, major maintenance and tune-up of our democracy.

The Homeland Enemy's core is small. Their Christian-Right core -- that supplies millions of votes during national elections in return for appointment of Christian-Right federal judges, federal laws based on Christian-Right theology, domestic policy and foreign policy and war abroad called for by their religion, federal spending on their religious causes -- is only 10% of our population (less than 30 million). Their wealth-corporate core -- that provides campaign contributions in return for tax relief and subsidies totalling over $800 billion a year, tax cheating worth $300 billion a year, relaxed public control and oversight of corporations to enable financial gouging as well as savings by reducing safety, laws that allow corporations to escape financial responsibility after they hurt or kill people, and so on -- is just 0.15% of our population (less than 500,000).

We the People, the at least 200 million conservative and liberal citizens being exploited and hurt by the right-wing Homeland Enemy, are huge in comparison. And if cooperatively organized and united, far stronger.

Since we no longer have representative government and because our many democratic processes barely work anymore, we may need to create a 21st-century version of the 18th-century Continental Congress -- a National Civic-Action Congress -- to organize and direct this four-element New American Revolution.

Here are tips on how to begin that conservative and liberal alliance: Unite and cooperate. And here's a useful tool, a source of understanding and inspiration the Homeland Enemy gradually hid and purged from America: How to take back America from the Homeland Enemy. Study it to see through the political wool the Homeland Enemy and its media pull over our eyes, including how "conservatives" and "liberals" have very much in common and if fully informed would join together against the "right wing" enemy hurting their families and futures and our country dearly. Read it to realize how the ENEMY WITHIN and its persuasion machine are going all out to prevent We the People from uniting and cooperating to carry out our Constitution, including by destroying "domestic Tranquility" and fostering "domestic Discord" to divide and conquer us (one of their many violations of our Constitution). And to realize how they cannot ultimately succeed due to the wisdom and humanity and power in the genetic and cultural heritage of our species, and in our Constitution (Awaken and unleash the moral and civic power of People).