Let’s clear away the haze of inertia that’s kept us passive as life altering changes occurred in almost indiscernible increments:

The tax system is broken. The way that taxes are assessed discourages innovation, and the way that the monies are re-allocated by both elected and unelected officials encourages patronage and waste. If this government were a business, it would be in chapter 11 proceedings and its employees would have been fired, or indicted. It’s only through accounting smoke and mirrors that we appear solvent.

The massive costs we incur to educate, feed, and maintain the health of the illegal population are crippling our ability to educated, feed, and maintain the health of the legal population, leaving us unable to build up the strength required to help others in need.

The procedure for declaring and going to war has gotten so fuzzy that the president can act as a monarch, and legislators trade a vote in favor of warfare for an earmark to construct bridges to nowhere. Now that’s mass murder.

The electoral college has rendered campaigning in more than half the states in the union unproductive. One man one vote is a thing of the past where presidential elections are concerned.

The American dream is clearly becoming harder, and in fact, nearly impossible to achieve. Without adequate early education, kids on the bottom rung of the ladder won’t be qualified to take advantage of the new, laudable trend of the free tuition now being offered to them by top institutions of higher learning.

Before underprivileged and frustrated folks of all races and creeds decide to head for the posh parts of town carrying machetes and shotguns, men and woman of sound mind and good spirit have to get this nation’s act together.