The United Republic of America?

My husband and I spend each morning in bed before before he goes to work. Before baby, we spent time cuddled up together, making love, listening to music, and/or talking. Some days we did all of the above, others just a few.

Since baby, we do the same thing, except the cuddling is harder, because one of us is usually holding baby, and well, we still haven't had sex yet.

This morning, he shared an excerpt from Ron Paul's farewell speech. Paul called Congress "psychopathic authoritarians," and talked about liberties being taken away, and how the government has civilians under surveillance these days.

I believe all of this to be true.

It is a fact that our government now, under the guise of "terrorism," has the authority to detain ANY AMERICAN CITIZEN INDEFINITELY for any reason. They also have the authority to EXECUTE ANY AMERICAN CITIZEN FOR ANY REASON. I wish I was on the computer so I could dig up sources to back this up, but I'm on my phone and it won't allow me to open windows like that. If you're interested, Google it. Look up reliable sources...NOT Wikipedia or any .com sites. Use .gov sites. They tend to be more reliable. Compare sites and information.

Anyway, I'm sad that he is done with politics. I'm sad that America, as a whole is sleeping, like sheep in a field, while the wolf stalks around them. I'm sad that my government, which was organized to represent me and  to protect my liberties, now sees me as a threat and in need of surveillance.

Actually, I'm more than sad, I'm pissed.

I'm pissed that the government has allowed corporations like Monsanto to fuck with my food. I'm pissed that good mothers out there who are unable to, or don't want to breastfeed, have to be afraid to feed their babies formula, because they worry about the GMOs present in our food sources. I'm pissed that our government couldn't care less because officials sit on the board at Monsanto, Hillary Clinton being one...(I used to respect her and thought I'd love to see her as president, until I learned this) and makes obscene profits from said GMOs.

I'm pissed that we are further in debt than ever and people can ignorantly celebrate another election victory. I don't care which of the "two" (I use quotation marks, because so many actually think there are only 2 candidates in a presidential election) had won the election, it is NOT a victory.

It's a shame, because neither of the two gentleman will work to solve any of the above issues.

13 million FEWER voters made it to the polls this year. Based solely on this fact, no one should be celebrating. The American people are either fed up and see their votes as unimportant, or they are apathetic. Either spells disaster for this great nation. Both allow the government too much control, with the latter being the worse of the two, in my opinion.

I was unable to vote because I've not established my Ohio residency yet...as is obvious from my previous posts about the car tax debacle and how my name isn't even officially changed yet, etc. The fact the I didn't get to vote really bothers me. My vote wouldn't have mattered though. I'd not have voted for either of the two possibilities. I'd have written in Ron Paul.

I think it is better to use a vote to actually stand up for what you believe in, rather than doing what I used to do with my vote, which was "vote for the lesser of two evils."

I don't believe in doing that anymore, because doing that will do only what Paul said and let "the status quo prevail."

There will never be change in this country until there is someone in office who is:
1. Not affiliated with either the Democrats or Republicans and
2. Has new ideas; revolutionary ideas and isn't out there trying to "save face."

America; the once rough and tumble, in-your-face, strapping, hard-working, vocal bunch has become dangerously silent and polite. Had our founding fathers been this way, we'd still be under English rule.

We are too fucking distracted by consumerism. We are too worried about pissing off our neighbors with our opinions, so we stay quiet. We follow the herd, like corn-fed cattle off to the slaughter, while our government officials prod us and make champagne toasts to their victories.

What is the victory? Filling their pockets! Like a friend said on Facebook yesterday, "making their way to early retirement."

It's a scary thing: the US government today. So many out there would call me paranoid and dismiss what I am saying. Hell, anyone who is still reading this post at this point is probably in agreement with me...the opposition would have already smugly sneered with disdain and moved on to some form of entertainment that allows them to exist without thinking. Everyone wants that, don't they: To NOT think for themselves, to have everything conveniently laid out before them like a tv dinner, with each thing neatly compartmentalized. Well, anyone who pays attention knows to avoid tv dinners like the plague. They are terribly unhealthy and laden with sodium and preservatives which only serve to shorten lives.

America is a tv dinner.

Yeah, everyone wants Easy Street. No one wants to think.

More people in this country tuned into Honey Booboo than the presidential debate this year. That is pathetic.

No one cares. No one is going to care because American has decided to live up to the stereotype...America is LAZY and STUPID, and SELF-ABSORBED.

Everyone is distracted by redneck families, and self-absorbed socialites on tv, and new cars, and bigger homes, and things, things, things!! Everyone is so fucking blinded by bullshit that when they wake up from the great slumber and look around, it'll be too late. We'll either be under a dictatorship-like government,  or we'll be under the rule of another country.

I used Ron Paul's speech as the basis of this post, but he's not the only one out there who is fed up. I am. I'm a stay-at-home mom and former teacher, a nobody, in colloquial terms, and I'm fed up. Others are too. Yesterday, I read the comments of women who are pissed about Monsanto. They are mad that Prop 37 didn't pass in California.

We are mothers.
We are aware.
We are angry.

It's a scary day when the government has their hands in a corporation like Monsanto. Where the government once created institutions like the USDA to protect the people from poison, they are now connected with corporations that poison us and profit from it.

There are people out there who are fed up and speaking out. Hell, there are petitions in 15 states in our great nation, that are raising the idea of secession! I've never heard of this happening in history, except for the rebel states doing it prior to the Civil War.

People laugh at it and dismiss it, but they shouldn't. Of course the states will most likely NOT SECEED and the petitions will most likely NOT get the required 25,000 votes, and the Union will most likely remain unified, but the petitions EXIST and that is important and should not be undermined. All change begins with just one voice....that voice becomes a few....and then many.

What does this have to do with my blog? What does this have to do with mothering and "Being Super Woman?"

I'd say it has everything to do with it. What happens today shapes tomorrow. Tomorrow is my children's future and that means everything to me.