Politicians are busy without accountability in a dysfunctional system.

I’ve written a ton of letters and contacted a ton of people. Few respond. Especially, politicians don’t respond.

If someone DID have a great solution- they’re not listening. They’re fighting to win. They’re working hard in Congress. They’re trying to figure out what people want. Daily they spend several hours on fundraising.

This is one way the system helps keep itself the way it is. It’s completely arranged to stay dysfunctional.

If there were a devil, he’d have invented it this way. He’d make a dysfunctional system where people work very, very hard to succeed, so they’re too busy to really consider fixing it.

Since it’s dysfunctional, people would have to try all sorts of weird schemes to make it even partially work. So they’d put their effort into working this dysfunctional system instead trying to fix it.

And it would be so dysfunctional that people would by resigned and cynical. Present a real solution and they’d say “Yeah, right,” and roll their eyes.

This is the system we have. Your cynicism keeps it in place. Your ideas that someone needs to succeed before you’ll give a new solution a try keeps new projects from succeeding.

Christianity is based on faith. But it’s not faith that Jesus was God’s son. It’s not faith that you’ll be saved after you die. It’s faith that you should do the right thing, even when the system says not to.

When Jesus was alive, the Hebrew leaders were corrupt. They were in league with Rome. They honored the political order more than they honored morality. Jesus said, “No!” He tried to bring people back to their foundational morality.

That’s what you need to have faith in- not the Bible, but in morality. We all sell out to the system. We all adjust to our corporate-greed driven world. That’s okay if at least you realize that you’re selling out and look for something better, listen for something better.

We do that a little. I’ve talked to many hundreds of people. Mostly I get arguments about “how the system is” and “how people are.” People have sold out to cultural truths. We can do better. Listen for a new way. Listen for a miracle.

People say that the technology we have today would appear to be magic in the days of King Arthur. Similarly, a world where government is accountable to people would me magic to you. Neither is magic. Both are possible.

You needn’t believe in PeopleCount. But I guarantee, support PeopleCount and it’ll at least have enough success to break through our belief that there’s no possibility for a breakthrough in politics. PeopleCount will probably succeed, but at least it’ll cause enough disruption of the current cynicism to lead to real change.

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