Good Afternoon

Good afternoon, and welcome to my blog, "Revolutionize around Common Sense". This blog's link is nineteenthofapril.blogspot.com, and I would like to explain to you why I picked this particular date. On this day, April 19th, in 1775, the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at Lexington and Concord. These shots began the war that would eventually, through a great many "times that try men's souls", result in American Independence from Great Britain. It began, in others words, a great overhaul of existing conditions, in a relatively rapid period of time.

There are many conditions in the United States in 2008 that I, and fellow concerned citizens, would desire to be greatly improved upon---though, as I am not a Communist, a violent revolution and complete tearing-down of existing conditions is not my advocation. Rather, there are numerous issues in which I believe that the prevailing policies of today should be flipped in the other direction completely. I believe that America's priorities should be reorganized, moving from defense spending and war to the worthier priorities of Education and Infrastructure. I believe that our approach towards foreign policy should be revised, with less aggressiveness and more respect towards our fellow countries and our fellow citizens of the world. I believe that more power should be given and taken by the citizens of the United States; the power of government should rest more in the hands of the People of the United States, and our society should become more civically involved and democratic.

These are my thoughts; these are my general goals of areas in which to redirect the stream of political discussion. On this blog, I plan to reverse the course of a waterfall, send all its water falling up instead of down. As you can see how difficult this will be, I ask for you help, if you support similar ideas to mine (and, don't worry, I will get around to the specifics), to blog about them yourself. If enough human ingenuity and intelligence is employed, I don't see why not the course of a waterfall couldn't someday be reversed.

Thank you.