Let's occupy America
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Editor,
Well, with all the "Occupy Wall Street" movement that seems to be spreading and may or may not have a life, it surely has a loud and significant voice about life in present America.
Now, of course, the talking heads, politicians, pundits and media are attempting to analyze, decipher and offer opinions with various emotional outbursts depending upon their level of fear or support.
What we do not hear, however, is very much about what would truly answer the extreme level of frustration from which this movement was born.
U.S. citizens are becoming increasingly frustrated with and deeply concerned about the future of America. And this frustration and concern touches just about every aspect of our way of life from real estate to banking to education to manufacturing to health care to the environment to our infrastructure. You name it, everything is coming under scrutiny by the American public.
Probably nothing is going to change with much until there is a total shift in attitudes and what accepting responsibility really means to those in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.
So, the big question is: What is it going to take to reform our political system from being filled with very partisan, greedy and selfish politicians to sensible, ethical, informed stateswomen and statesmen who have only the best interests of our nation in heart and mind?
To me it comes down to one thing: money. We must somehow temper the payoffs, the big money influences, and the high cost of running for office, which presently drive our system of government. We have fallen into such a money-bloated mentality in this country that it is driving everything from popular sports to the highest of legislation.
We are now talking about an attitude of mind, and this reaches down to each of us right where we live, work, play and raise our families. Is it possible and practicable? The answer to that rests within each of us.
The "occupy movement" is not just for those physically gathering in huge groups. It can exist and express from the very core of each of our own thought systems.
Bob McClellan
Polson
