"Join the PTA. Run for local political office. And encourage other conservatives to do the same. Join with other conservatives and put pressure on local governments to do the right thing. Bang on desks. Call offices. Write emails. Do whatever it takes. And keep doing it until somebody listens and fixes the problem."
That "somebody" was them. THEY fixed the problem. THEY put it all on the line by leaving their day jobs, farms, homes, and families behind to take up arms against distant, elitist rulers who viewed them as "subjects" and not equals. (sound familiar?)
"We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
Are any among us ready to do the same, to actually deserve the fruits of the Founding Fathers' blood and treasure?
You articulated that point far better than I did, and I thank you for that!
They actually did a whole lot of that type of stuff in the years leading up to the revolution...the 1760s and first half of the 1770s are full of a smaller handful of people getting very involved locally. Being in a position of influence in their communities, educating people so when the crisis hit, people were willing to follow them.
The Revolution didn’t happen in a vacuum - it wasn’t a case that one day, people woke up po’ed at the British government and decided to take the next step. If it hadn’t been for the local activists who did this sort of stuff, there wouldn’t have been the shot heard round the world....