Stand Up

While everyone is on social media throwing tomatoes and accusations and shouting opinions, who among us will stand up?

Who wants to do more than just spout off and jump in to effect new ideas and stand up for your values?

“Come together”, “Resist”, “Organize”, etc. come to mind as chants on social media from those in headphones watching large screen TVs from an entertainment system that drains your mind and wallet to numb whatever your true sanctimonious ideas you may believe from what you watch and repeat. Eat your bag of gluten free chips and diet sodas and sleep well feeling self righteous in your comments. Tomorrow will just be another story to mock.

Yet who among us is willing to stand up and take part in our disillusion?

Sure we will go into the booth in November and click on a D or a R or a I or an unknown and walk away with a sticker on our jacket, but who the heck are those folks?

Some work hard to get in the position to be on that list. Some used to have family names to promote their position. Some were chosen by the ‘party’ and some just networked better than others.

Political positions are not an easy job, but it pays well. These are people, if elected by the masses, who have the power to represent the rest of us lowly smucks. These are the folks who are on television every night complaining about each other.

My question is who among us would shut up and step up to apply for a position that has an opportunity to change stuff?

It is easier to be a Monday morning quarterback than to get out on the field and throw the ball.

It is not an easy occupation decision. Just think of all the things you have to deal with?

• Education • Immigration • War (you choose the subject) • Cyber security • Infrastructure • Climate change • Women’s reproductive rights • Gerrymandering • Gender identification • International trade agreements • Pay raises • Cancer • Food and water purity • Guns • Banking • Opioids • Marriage • Obesity • Housing • Energy • Copyrights • Economy • Suicide • PTSD • Social security • Vets • etc.

That is a lot of stuff to put on a plate of one who whishes to stand up in front of a crowd and take questions.

You could still print the posters and attend the rallies and wear the t-shirts and hats and even go door-to-door promoting your chosen’s position. You could even be that chosen one.

Stand proud and tall and announce this is the way.