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All politics is local! That expression is attributed to U S. Speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill. He was referring to the fact that a politician must win elections locally in order to win them nationally.

Some U. S. constitutionalists have taken up that slogan. With them it says that there is little chance to influence Washington D.C. Probably the next candidate has been chosen by the men behind the curtain already before you ever go to the polls. But what you can change is your local politics since the United States, by law, is a republic with each state being sovereign and Sheriffs having the ultimate legal power within that State, even over the federal government. And in beginning locally, eventually you will change the scene nationally.

We don’t know about all the politics, but we do think the principle of changing your world by changing your community is accurate, not only in the political realm but in areas beyond the political. We have the power to seriously affect our community: our neighbors, our churches, our very own business people and family businesses. If enough of us are contributing locally, we have the potential to change our world.

But many of us have been herded into a different mindset. We have learned to buy from the name-brand corporations and brands, look to the government for everything, and believe that the same people who messed it up and stole from us are now going to fix it and take care of us.

Savvy people have begun to have doubts about that and see the need to focus on their own community, unplugging from the national mainstream and investing themselves, and even their resources, in their own localities. It all hearkens back to the founders of America,who did their best to limit the intrusion of the federal government in our lives—and make all politics local. In fact, at the beginning, everything was local. Neighbors helped each other and, with no government safety net, communities had to work together. But Mr. Global has managed not only to divide families, but to change our focus from local to national, thus giving himself incredible power. Or so we think anyway.

My son was once helping a Costa Rican rancher cut out cattle for market. He kept trying to get one particular,uncooperative steer to stay with the herd. Every time he got him herded near the group, that steer would bolt and run until he was well away from the herd where he then stood and watched. It was as if he was more aware than the others what was up and they were not hauling HIM to market. Finally the farmer said, “Oh leave that one alone, he’s been here for years, it’s impossible to keep him with the herd.”

I want to be like that steer. I want it to be impossible to keep me in the herd.

The TV is a major herding tool. People think we can take the “good” and block out the propaganda. We can’t. It’s involved with how our brains are designed–our alpha and beta brain waves–but we won’t get into that today. We will go only so far as to say that we tend to become accustomed to ideas that we hear or see, over and over, without even realizing that it is happening to us, and eventually accepting them to some degree. Thus Mr.Global obtains at least our partial cooperation.

In previous posts we have suggested detaching from the corporate system as much as possible, buying locally wherever possible and keeping our money in our own locality. Support local family businesses, farmers, banks (if we must) and industries instead of sending our money off to New York or elsewhere.

We hear a lot from American citizens who are concerned and even ready to wage war over laws that protect their firearms. We don’t disagree with those concerns. But we really think the real issue is that America has been under financial attack for years. Because the true battlefield is financial, the more we understand finances and economics, the better equipped we will be to defend ourselves. Catherine Austin Fitts here presents some very good and perhaps innovative ideas for disconnecting from the corporations and keeping our finances local, while making a profit at the same time.The best of both worlds.

We think you’ll like it and perhaps get some good ideas.

Looking forward to seeing you again next week as we continue our exploration of the concept of community. . .

Arlean

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