“The Wisconsin Alliance for Civic Trust” Is One Helpful Solution For A Better Tomorrow!

The purpose of the Society’s Building Blocks blog is “Critically Thinking About Things That Change Society” and it’s been a rather depressing task in the 21st century to witness all the absurdities coming to the forefront of our society that are destroying our culture and the core foundations of our country.

Try to imagine a tomorrow that’s filled with hope and promise for the United States of America. It’s not so easy to do that these days. We’ve gone from a society filled with twisted absurdities to morally perverted unsupportable and uncivil predictions of doom and it’s really getting out of hand!

Morally Preverted: showing lowered moral standards of character.

I have been watching political ads for the upcoming election in November 2024 and I’m noticing a terribly disturbing trend. This trend is primarily coming from the political left right now, but it’s certainly not limited to them, the problem is that it’s getting more and more morally perverted every week. The trend is unadulterated fear mongering by using unsupportable predictions imbedded in pure propaganda, they are literally making up lies to scare the hell out of the public. What could possibly go wrong with promoting fear? These morally bankrupt ad creators are literally creating delusional visions of an unforeseeable future for the sole purpose of destroying the opposing candidate and from my perch in southern Wisconsin constituents are eating it up like candy fed to a kid. This is the kind of morally bankrupt rhetoric that if constantly fed to the public it can undermine morals and help create lunatics sheeple like the nut job that tried to assassinate President Trump and the uncivil people advocating for violence against those they disagree with. This has got to end!

This fear mongering trend has existed in politics for a long time at some level but more recently it’s been taken to a new level with very obvious anti-Trump rhetoric. This has become so “acceptable” in the political arena that it’s now branched out and being used across the board as a primary tactic. It’s as if candidates set policy differences on the back burner and now focus all their attention on tarring their opponent as evil incarnate and if you aren’t against their opponent then you’re evil too. These morally bankrupt tactics at the current level are wildly uncivil, anti-American, and socially destructive.

I’ve seen intelligent people fall, hook line and sinker, for all this morally bankrupt fear mongering. They’ve allowed their political bias to completely strip them of their critical thinking skills, they’ve become obsessed with the destruction of those they oppose, and jump on the ends justify the means bandwagon and have become morally bankrupt propaganda parrots.

I’m really sick and tired of all the propaganda, how about you?

What can be done about it?

Action on your part is what can be done!

Get up from your comfortable arm chair and take a stand for what’s morally right and call out what’s morally wrong. There’s an organization here in Wisconsin that is trying to actively counter current political and social trends, it’s called The Wisconsin Alliance for Civic Trust. The organization is very intentionally bi-partisan in that it has appointed a Democrat Co-Lead and a Republican Co-Lead as the Senior Advisors of the organization. These Senior Advisors work together to promote bi-partisan membership and promote their principles across the entire political spectrum. Their principles which are as follows:

• Cross-partisan collaboration.
• Trust and honesty in politics.
• Peaceful engagement.
• Fair, safe, secure elections.
• Civic education, civil discourse.

Let’s face it, most of us fall somewhere in the political middle and lean a bit left or right, and we look out at the vocal political extremes as if they’ve lost their minds. We in the ideological center of the spectrum far outnumber the vocal extremes but we’re not effectively exercising our voice to counter the vocal extremes. The unheard ideological center has common ground, we want our politics to be civil, truthful, honest and peaceful. We want the people to know that our elections are fair, safe, and secure. We want the public to be reasonably educated in civics so they can understand how our political system works including what the Constitution does for us. We want civil discourse to be done in a civil manner. We share many other commonalities related to our personal lives, many common goals, and many common values and those should be solid foundations to build upon so we can bridge these ideological chasm walls we’re facing in the 21^st century.

Stop spending all your time blaming the elected politicians for everything, when the buck stops right in the lap of voters. If you don’t get off your comfortable arm chair and get involved then nothing will change.

Remember the days when the lunatic fringes were just a few nut jobs carrying signs and yelling anti-American crap at people on the streets, we walked by them and ignored them because they were considered nuts. Well folks, those nuts got votes and many similar nuts are running the country now! Why are they in positions of leadership in our country, because their voice drowned out the voice of the moderate ideological center because we were figuratively sitting in our comfortable arm chair just going through the motions. When the ideological center of the political spectrum, which far outnumbers the vocal extremes, gets out of their comfortable arm chair and gets their act together as a cohesive group we can figuratively shove the extremes and their uncivil rhetoric back into the realms of the lunatic fringes, from whence they came, and simply ignore them again.

You might think that joining a non-profit organization like The Wisconsin Alliance for Civic Trust won’t do any good, but I’m here to tell you that the option that many of us have chosen to sit on our comfortable arm chair isn’t working. You can’t keep on doing the same thing and expect different results. Get out of your comfortable arm chair and be the pebble in the pond of change. The power to change comes with numbers, help grow those numbers. If you want to, you can learn to be the political activist that supports the Constitution, supports our Democratic Republic, supports cross-partisan collaboration, promotes trust and honesty in politics, strives for peaceful engagement, makes sure that our elections are fair, safe, and secure, helps with civic education both in ourselves and others, and does what is necessary to promote civil discourse and call out those that are being uncivil. If you like, you can simply offer your name to the numerical support by joining.

The Wisconsin Alliance for Civil Trust, and similar organizations, need you to step up. Remember this is about core values of our Democratic Republic NOT politics. The organization needs past politicians, prominent civic leaders, business professionals, and just ordinary people to get the message out. Power comes in numbers. A bi-partisan group of past politicians and prominent civic leaders that can effectively set aside the politics of the day and focus on the core values and principles that are being promoted are especially needed to take on some of the leadership positions to serve as publicly recognizable faces and to help the teams do their legwork. Your clout in the community can especially help inspire others to spread the word.

It’s time to set aside political differences of opinion and past rhetorical differences to work together to achieve a goal and use the clout of the masses to change all our tomorrows.

If we want to imagine a tomorrow that’s filled with hope and promise for the United States of America then I think the choices are clear. The choice is yours; remain passively sitting in your comfortable arm chair expecting everyone else to do what needs to be done, or get up and help restore civility and trust and help make that hopeful tomorrow happen. All it takes is a load of small pebbles like us in the pond to create waves of change.

Regardless of how you feel politically about the man, Presidential Candidate Barack Obama correctly stated in 2008 that, “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” 

Please join us at the Wisconsin Alliance for Civil Trust.

Now choose wisely.