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Title: If Not Me, Then Who?

Original CoS Document (slug): [[https://conventionofstates.com/if-not-me-then-who|if-not-me-then-who]]

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Created: 2023-11-13 11:36:32

Updated: 2023-11-13 11:53:45

Published: 2023-11-13 00:00:00

Converted: 2025-04-14T21:28:04.284013950


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The greatest threat to freedom is believing someone else will save it. Which begs two questions. Who/what is threatening our freedom and who might that someone else be?\\
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**First**, the threat to our freedom is complex, insidious, and relentless. On a national level it is a fiscally out of control elected government, fueled by an unelected self-sustaining behemoth of a bureaucracy, all of which are accountable to no one. On an international level it is a collection of private interests, with obscene amounts of money, which manipulate world organizations and governments, for their sinister agenda of population control through wars and famine, and most recently worldwide pandemics.\\
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Rodney Dangerfield used to joke about a “heaviness” that greets him every morning when he opens his eyes. It is sort of like that.  Huge and almost undefinable. You would like things to change, but your just one person, as the saying goes.\\
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The threats to our freedoms seem overwhelming, hence the tendency to retreat into our daily lives and hope it is resolved by “someone else.”  Sadly, that is precisely how we got in this pickle to begin with.\\
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So, is the answer that ever-popular phrase “grassroots,” that has been batted around for decades by various entities and activist organizations? Yes, it is. \\
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It is about the only answer for the everyday citizen who is propagandized, cajoled, and pressured to conform to whatever government edict or agency that is in vogue. And you are that citizen.\\
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One of the major problems with forming a grassroots organization is to solidify support in an ongoing basis. As was opined by Desmond Tutu, “there is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time.” Unfortunately, taking one bite at a time can become tedious and boring, seemingly going nowhere.  \\
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So, the challenge in maintaining a grassroots group is how do you keep your volunteers eating the elephant? The answer is quite simply, emotions. What greater emotion than our commitment to our children, grandchildren and posterity?\\
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The recent elections may hold some important clues to this conundrum.\\
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//Parents rebel against school board ideologues in Virginia's toniest precincts//\\
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Timothy P. Carney 11/8/23 Washinton Examiner\\
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McLEAN, Virginia — “I’m voting for my daughter, basically,” said Don, a Vietnamese immigrant and father, outside Chesterbrook Elementary in [[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/parents-rebel-against-school-board-ideologues-in-virginias-toniest-precincts|Fairfax County]]. Don’s daughter is not running for anything — she is not even in kindergarten yet. He is voting for her future.\\
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That comment highlights two very important points.  One, a parent’s mandate to leave their children a better world to live in, and two “local is not small ball.” \\
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Customarily, when one becomes engaged with a grassroots group, on some level, it is an emotionally charged decision honoring that mandate. \\
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**Second**, “small ball” is grassroots. Because school boards are closest to the People, they are an essential place to start to address the dysfunction in government and the representatives of that dysfunction, on a personal level; not to mention, addressing their mandate to guide the education of our impressionable youth and future participants in our Republic.\\
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Convention of States is a grassroots organization that offers a conduit for your mandated emotions, which is not only about small ball, but involves you on the grand stage of constitutional change. Once you grasp your innate authority granted to you by the founders in the Constitution, you will realize you are that “someone else.”\\
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For answers on how to address that heaviness of helplessness, click: [[https://conventionofstates.com/?ref=59072|Conventionofstates.com]] and learn how to become a blade in this grassroots effort.