Grubesic: You Can't Seal the Truth

John Grubesic

Capitol Report New Mexico - Watching the fires burn in Egypt makes you wonder how bad it has to get until people act. What does it take for people to force their government to listen? We did it once, over two hundred years ago and we haven’t done it since. Why not? Because things haven’t gotten bad enough or because we have been lulled into a sense that those who govern care more about serving us than serving themselves and their friends? America is complacent. We are content to let those in power tell us what we need instead of figuring it out for ourselves and telling them what to do for us. What causes people to finally rise up and wrestle power away from a tyrant? What causes a nation, once content to be ruled by such a man to attempt to establish a democracy? To re-establish that power comes from the consent of the governed? I think people finally get tired of political arrogance. Politicians feel entitled to govern as they see fit and no one was a better example of this than Bill Richardson. Read full column here:

Grubesic: You Can't Seal the Truth