It's Time We the People start doing our Constitutionally Mandated Duty!

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We the People like to point fingers in blame all over the place. We blame politicians for being more interested in what lobbyists, party leaders and others say. We blame parties and lobbyists for weilding too much power over our elected officials. We blame bureaucrats for creating bloated systems that can be checked or balanced. We blame the incompetent press for their lies, distortions and cover ups. Well, yes, all of those entities are a disgrace and can't be defended for their corruption... but... But isn't it We the People who hold the highest office in the land? Aren't We the "We the People" who the Constitution is addressed from? Aren't We the People the ones who hold the rights, powers and authorities in the US.. and delegate just enough of them to the Federal Government for the purposes stated in the Preamble to the US Constitution? Why can elected officials get away with shutting us out of the process? Because we not only allow them to do it, too many of us actually demand it! It's called Complacency, and it is at the heart of every single problem facing our nation at any given time. We read in horror about the lax security at some of the facilities we thought were the most secure. We read about thousands of government hard drives being "lost". We read about air traffic controllers texting or sleeping during their shift. We read about government officials getting caught stealing secret documents. We read about.... But while we're reading about that, we are rolling our eyes because our employers won't let us use company time and resources to do personal business. We drive drunk. We sue businesses for things we know are our fault. Our doctors cut off the wrong leg. Our medical facilities spread more infections than our public toilets... We have become a nation that just doesn't care. If we don't care, why should our elected officials treat us with any respect? What happens when we do speak out? When we oppose our elected officials, they fight back. They call us names, work to silence us, get their supporters to fight against us... So why do we let them get to us? Because in the end, very few really want to speak out. Their might be an issue that gets them going, but if it takes more than a few hours (with time out for station identification, and a word from our sponsor) most go back to their daily lives.. already in progress. What would we do if we employed people as haphazard and lazy at their job as most of We the People are at supervising our elected officials? Yes, We the People are the supervisors. We the People are the ones who set the standard by which our elected officials will operate. If they are giving too much power to special interest groups, it is because we allow it. If they are giving too much prestige to lobbyists.. it's because we didn't do anything about it when they did it before. There are a lot of us today who are mobilizing against what we consider a corrupt and vile health care plan. There are others who are mobilizing in support of it. How are we reacting? Like a bunch of kindergarteners vying for attention from the teacher. We don't act like we care much about what our employees are doing... as long as they pacify us with nods and pats on the head. One thing this mobilization has proven is that we can take control of our government back. We each aren't going to get our way, that was never promised in the first place. However, we are proving that the heads of the 3 branches of the Federal Government can't simply snap their fingers and their will is achieved. They have to answer to We the People. We are coming up on a mid term election year. We not only have the opportunity to make our voices heard, we have full hiring and firing authority.