The Pursuit

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

This is the part that most people can relate to, or recall from memory.  Most even think it is the first few lines of the Declaration of Independence, but they would be wrong in that thought.  

Right after we have been told that equality is for all people, and we have the right to pursue our hopes and dreams, comes the next few lines:

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed....." 

Out of several hundred contacts through a social media platform, there are three who are not happy with the current administration in the White House.  There are surely more than three, but the others keep their opinions to themselves. The 3 have been unhappy since election day.  Every day since, they have spent countless hours digging up and posting everything negative they can possibly find about the POTUS.......even though the world has not stopped spinning, there has not been a mass exodus from the USA, as predicted, and Russia is still in Russia.

Treading lightly on the political platform, because the damage of 'only one way to be' thinking has done to friendships and families, it seems the people of this country have missed something.....something big.

They actually believe that what is going on in Washington, DC is reality.  That this is the place of our government....for the people, by the people.  Perhaps in days gone by, it was, but WE no longer run the show.

This country runs on banks and big corporations, plain and simple.  One banking giant has been in trouble numerous times, was considered a major player in the housing crash a few years back and yet they are still in business and able to pay billion dollar fines. The major corporations have the money to put as many lobbyists as it takes to sway the members of Congress.  Most of these sways are not for the good of the people as a whole, but a definite benefit to the company they represent. 

So, what is the answer to our dwindling independence and constant rat race in pursuit of trying to be happy?  Maybe we should take heed of the next few lines written over 240 years ago:

"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.........."

Let Freedom Ring.