America is a unique nation.

Here is a nation which is unique in that, built into the founding laws of the country, the citizens can band together to form militias to oversee their own safety; yet no one does.

In America right now, these first months of 2020, if you weren't aware; Democratic party affiliated and supporting persons and entities have organized gullible masses of people to participate in demonstrations and riots while Republicans and their supporters have sparked violence and both have fanned the flames of racial tension to incredible heights; all documented steps in their very own regime change operations used to, per their words, "spread democracy" around the world.

But America neither has nor advocates Democracy, it advocates and shoves capitalism down the throats of everyone, including her own people.

But there is a solution, built into America's founding documents and enshrined in her most fundamental laws. There can actually be Democracy in America. There is only one problem: Democracy requires participation of the citizenry of a nation. Americans aren't known for doing things for themselves. America is a full service nation, full of people who expect full service, who are now demanding it in the streets - though only at the behest of those similarly motivated enough to organize them.

But if Americans could, a solution is quite easily and handily available. Two simple things are all that need to happen; both of which however require all citizens to participate at some level:

The first is citizen militias. America was founded by citizen militias. People who banded together and used their weapons to fight the oppression of a controlling central government located on a faraway island. The US Constitution memorializes this fact and suggests a path to maintain freedom in the second amendment, which states that "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.) So if a militia is necessary to maintain the freedom of the state, where are those militia?

The answer is, people assume that the National Guard is their militia. But who was called upon to put down the rioters who were organized from the people? And how many regular people join the National Guard? And does the National Guard really represent the people, or the government? Considering that after a tank was stolen from the National Guard in San Diego and subsequently their tanks were ordered seized and dumped in the ocean, and that the second amendment says the government can't restrict arms ownership by citizen militias, that would either mean that the government violated the Constitution, or more likely, the National Guard isn't a citizen's militia, but a government military that actually polices the people!

No, people have to form their own militias. These militia should be in charge of policing, not a private, government, corporate police force (most cities are in fact corporations). Instead of organizing demostrations and riots, why aren't people organizing militias?

The answer perhaps lies in the second solution; a citizen's government using existing infrastructure. In this scenario, the jury pool is used to select potential candidates for US Congress, the House of Representatives specifically (the Senate could be chosen through a Jury pool, but only on a state level per the Constitution), who, just like jury duty, have a duty to fulfill as citizens in a citizen-governed political system (Democracy) and can choose not to fulfill that duty for whatever reason.

From these two simmple ideas there is an easy solution to everything that is wrong in America. Imagine if people formed militias, replaced police forces, and then replaced Congress with people elected from candidates chosen from the jury pool or something similar. As soon as the government was seated, you would have a true democracy, and for the first time since the founding of America at that.

Clearly this is possible from a technical standpoint. But equally clearly is that it will never happen precisely because of how divided America is. Militias wouldn't form to oversee security and maintain justice; but to enact revenge or to attack their perceived enemy.

This is and could only be a problem because people in America are not allowed to think for themselves. Censorship, "cancel culture", "gatekeeping", labeling someone racist, "deplatforming" people for their views - these are all meant to stifle free speech - under the guise of supposedly protecting the vulnerable from hate speech. America is a democracy, government therefore is largely self-service, meaning waiting for someone to protect you from someone else's views is beyond the mandate of the nation, and thus the individual's responsibility. Free speech trumps personal sensitivities.

As long as Americans are lead in how they think, there can never be either democracy nor freedom; except for those who maintain the military and police that is.

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