Who Lobbies for Us,

Hard-working, tax-paying, law-abiding, unaffiliated, American citizens?

Many millions of us are not union members, Chamber of Commerce members, AARP members, wealthy individuals, professional associates, non-profit executives, illegal immigrates, religious parishioners; who lobbies for us?

Who asks for medical insurance waivers for us? Who asks for protective tariffs for taxpayers? Who asks for subsidies for us? Who lobbies for lower taxes for us? Who lobbies for smaller more sensible government for us? Who lobbies for equal treatment under the law for us?

Who????

I thought it should be Congress. That’s clearly not true. I thought it could the courts. That’s clearly not true.

Who speaks for the plain, simple, fair-minded, child rearing, home-making, gainfully employed, mortgage paying, generous, neighborly, law-abiding, tax-paying, jury sitting, independent voters?

Apparently, no one does. How could this happen? How could individuals, the backbone of this nation, have no say?

Then I realized, that the only say an unaffiliated individual has is to vote. We do not have access to a process to submit our grievances. We have no access through the courts to petition the government for redress. If we do not pay patronage to elected politicians or huge fees to lawyers for access to courts, or massive payments to the media for access to the public opinion manipulation.

The truth is, without money, or special affiliation, or the threat of extortion or insurrection; we have only our vote and a very limited freedom of speech with little opportunity for access to listeners or readers.

Only the individuals, at great risk to their personal safety and livelihoods, have any chance of being heard let alone heeded, in their quest for a fair and equal redress of grievances, in the face of the huge army of paid mercenary lobbyists of the affiliated.

Who prevents the unlawful seizure of the fruits of our labor and frugality; the constitution?

Who prevents the loss of our rights; the courts?

Who protects us from our enemies, foreign and domestic? Hint; they actually take that solemn oath.

Apparently all of those are wrong.

Only individuals with the right to free speech, the right to bare arms, the right of association and movement, the right to vote, and the right to rebel, if all else fails; the right of free man to take corrective actions into their own hands.

We are all there is between liberty and tyranny.