The Declaration of Dependence

It has become necessary, in the Course of our nation’s events, to remind our elected representatives that We the People depend upon their sense of compassion and decency, to inform them of our failing national Health, and to urge them to safeguard the very future of the shared Good and common Cause that is the United States of America.

Democracy is not an act of nature. It is not gifted from the heavens nor does it spring eternal from the land. It is a social contract and, as such, requires all participants to sign on the line and live by the same rules.

In 1776, our forefathers looked at the world and asked why — why should a people be governed without their consent. And they declared what — what must be done to right the wrong of history. Today, we take up that same question and declare that same purpose. This is the deal we made, and this is the deal we demand be upheld. We hold this truth to be self-evident.

Our nation is currently a chimera — in part a Republic, in part a Democracy, but in whole neither. We have the enormous capacity to be both, yet to achieve that American Dream our elected officials must heed the warnings of Alexis de Tocqueville, that tyranny by the minority over the majority cannot occur, nor can the tyranny of the majority against minorities.

George Washington called the American political ideal “The Great Experiment.” That experiment is unfinished, and continuing its good work is dependent upon our active participation as well as a promised reciprocation by our elected Representatives. We may disagree over policy, but we must agree on the fundamentals of our polity.

Representative (noun): a person chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others.

But the represented depend upon being accurately, fairly, and justly spoken for. Without that, our representatives become tyrants.

Tyrant (noun): a person exercising power or control in a cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary way.

We are a nation of immigrants, all once strangers in a strange land. Our stories would not be told if not for the compassion of another, their outstretched hand, their open arms, their giving soul. We, and those who came before us, have given our lives to the Glory of the nation, and in return we depend upon our government and our representatives:

We depend upon their compassion

We depend upon their support.

We depend upon their civility.

We depend upon their humanity.

We depend upon their grace.

And we depend upon their respect for that golden rule, to treat others the way they want to be treated.

Therefore, we the People, in one voice, do declare our dependence on the Nation, on our government, and on our representatives. And for the support of this Declaration, we mutually pledge to each other our Hearts, our Minds, and our sacred Spirit. These things when bound together do create the United States of America, the city upon a hill.

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