We live in the Heartland of America, and embody the values that are often referenced when there is an attempt to reduce America to a single culture; a quintessential form of life. We are also the progeny of the first populist movement in the United States. Consequently, we should feel a burden - a responsibility - to take the lead in this movement of the people, the populace, as we assert our autonomy over our own personage, and ascend to the role of the politicians of our very selves.

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Subjects of America,

We live in turbulent times, where we face issues of enormous importance that will surely have an impact upon our lives and the lives of our progeny forgenerations to come. We are currently involved in an unpopular war in Iraq, which seems to have no end in site. Despite the Will of the People to end this ghastly, worthless occupation of a once sovereign nation, the elitist class – the professional politicians and their network of corporate sponsors - pay no heed to the cries of the populace, and maintain funding for this sinking ship of an ill-thought-out foreign policy blunder.

We are now learning of abuses committed, by the very man who took an oath to defend the Constitution of The United States of America. He elected to sanction the National Security Agency to conduct intelligence gathering operations on Americans. Although this crime committed by Bush was an abuse not even tolerated under The Patriot Act, we currently face a situation where, if renewed, The Patriot Act will persist to infringe upon our Constitutional civil liberties. The Patriot Act will grant agencies, like the FBI, powers to obtain sensitive, private information, such as medical records, without the oversight of the Judicial Branch of Government. Furthermore, through the deployment of gag orders, the FBI need not have it disclosed that any such intrusive searches were ever performed by its agents.

All of these factors indicate that the American Republic, which was, mind you, flawed in absolutely crucial respects with which to begin, has transformed to Empire. The Executive Branch of Government is acquiring unprecedented powers, and it is using these powers in an effort to extend the colonial reach of America. United States’ imperialism is, of course, nothing new. We have long, since the adoption of the Monroe Doctrine, interfered in the affairs of Latin America. Indeed, we have committed atrocities when protecting our business interests in these developing countries. Nevertheless, the current Regime, occupying the White House, has taken America’s will towards capitalist expansion to a new degree of fervor. The Noe-conservative foreign affairs ideology makes no excuses regarding the use of blunt force to impose American influence upon the rest of the world. We have seen this in Iraq, where the populace of the US was surreptitiously led into the conflict by the ‘Nobel Lie’ constructed by Wolfowitz and his henchmen, and the rest of the clandestine propaganda producers in the Office of Special Plans, embedded somewhere inside the Pentagon.

Fortunately, however, American Empire is an inept imperialist entity; an attribute of Empire, which becomes ever more evident as America continues to commit follies in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Program for a New American Century - the think-tank created by the Noe-conservatives - conceived of a foreign policy philosophy that proved to be a disaster at devising plans for world dominance. As we watch in horror as our children are killed in Iraq, and countless, yet uncounted, Iraqis are killed by American state-sponsored terrorism, we yearn to end the madness; and, many times, we call out, but our politicians fail to heed our disparate pleas for peace.

The problems with America do not emanate from the populace - the multitudes - whose faces blend into a collage with no identifiable political identity with which to impose its will upon the government. Rather, the problem lies with the “Power Elite,” which effectively coordinates among its members, in order to protract its endless struggle to protect its vested interests. America needs democracy - real social or direct, or a fusion of the two, democracy - where the people directly and deliberatively dictate the policies of the nation. Let us end the reign of tyranny imposed by those of privilege; those who have been born into a social-networking scheme of quid pro quo cronyism. George W Bush is the biggest product of cronyism in the history of this Nation, and from his performance as President, we can safely assume that breading does not ensure intelligence, wisdom, or prudent judgment. Therefore, the only recourse is to invest the Nation’s trust in the People, the Populace, which knows better than those who claim to know best, what policies and initiatives are its true interests.