Statement: Jacksonian Democracy

      We forget that our founding fathers were once viewed as criminals by the conventional state of their age. Had the Revolutionary War, something a long-shot, not found its way to victory, they were to be hung to a man...   What they struggled for, what many lives sought to buy, was that this land should be a Republic and not a tyranny.

         Today, after periods of glorious democracy, complacency and hubris...  have made that struggle necessary again.  We need Jacksonian democracy... to throw open the doors and let citizens: policemen, bartenders, visual artists...  speak their minds freely on serious issues...  and have the government take this input seriously and not label we citizens as dissidents if we have new ideas that clash with the views of the deep state and the sometimes shallow press

          This needs to be an age of reform: from the Veteran's administration to the health care system to public education, dysfunction has become the word of the day.  The answer is not draconian cuts and simply pulling the plug... but getting in there and finding new solutions.  It will take new eyes.