It was that minding our own business leaving the work of governing to those who wanted, really wanted to do it that's brought us here.

Our system was designed to be citizen-run, participatory. Not left to a professional political class. WaPo's adopted motto, "Democracy dies in darkness" is true, despite them being a part of the darkness.

If we don't participate, and that means more than just vote or write checks to the professional political class then governing stays in darkness. They told us we were lucky to be living during a "timeout from history" where we were prosperous and safe under the direction of a political class that was benevolent in a system of freedom that was indestructible no matter who was in power. And most of us believed them. And most still do.

"I just want to be left alone and I'll leave others alone." Those days are over. A time for choosing has arrived. We have to be pissed off enough to do something. And that means not leaving supporters of this insanity and control of these systems alone. We have to take control from them. Or we will surely live out the remainder of our days under their boot. Power hates a vacuum. Our absence from it sucks in the radical left and sociopaths. Playtime is over. History is today.