The Greatest Political Event in History!

Can we make this sort of history, the kind that will permanently change the world? History will be made, but will we guide it to the place we want it to be or let it blow up in our face as it has since the beginning of time? I believe we can generate the changes we want if we have the will!

Let's take a stab at writing a page from the new history book for the beginning of the 22nd Century (2100).


THE ROOTS OF DEMOCRACY

Although it is difficult to imagine in this age of world peace and prosperity, the beginning of the 21st Century was very different. Although it claimed to be the focal center of democracy in the world, the United States of America was the most feared military empire that ever existed – even by its allies in Europe. It's superpower status was unchallenged after the Cold War period that lasted from the 1950s into the 1980s. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Americans felt comfortable with the world and assumed military disarmament would proceed automatically.

But the USA was not yet a government by the people. Instead of controlling the government, the government controlled them. While the people assumed everything was fine and turned their attention to personal matters, rather than national and international matters, the giant multibillion dollar corporations used this opportunity to consolidate their control of the U.S. Government and by doing so took almost exclusive control of the public media! This gave the military-industrial complex control over what the average American citizen knew and, therefore, made it easy to intimidate the people to comply with the overall corporate agendas. These agendas included control of as much of the world's natural resources as possible so they could maintain their huge economic advantage. With government officials in their pocket, they could use the vast military power of the USA for covert and even overt wars to control those resources. Citizens believed them when they claimed the military was still insufficiently strong. The largest portion of the national budget flowed into the military with little complaint from the people in spite of a disintegrating civil infrastructure.

If any event was the key to the rise of democracy in America, it was the unprovoked attack against Iraq in the Second Gulf War. At first the people believed the propaganda for war against Iraq, considering the devastating attack of September 11th, 2001 by El Quida. But eventually the reasons for war against Iraq were exposed as lies and the public backlash resulted in the Impeachment of the President (George W. Bush) in 2006 with his arrogantly open admission of treasonous spying on American citizens.

This deep corruption of the American government brought the people to realize that they must never again allow a power hungry minority to take control of their country. They embraced the National Initiative for Democracy created by former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel who worked on empowering the people to be law makers since his Senate days in the 1970s. The Philadelphia II Corporation (a non-profit founded by Gravel) ran an election for the National Initiative on-line which enabled the people to enact the law along with the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that made real democracy available and guaranteed to the people of America for the first time. With the people resuming control over this great nation, political corruption and the military-industrial complex were finally stopped, setting an example that was quickly followed throughout the world in the last century producing an unprecedented level of international cooperation led by the USA and its leadership in the United Nations.