I've long believed life on Earth could—and should—be better for ordinary people, as opposed to privileged people, than it has been. I've long believed the problems humans suffer constantly, such as poverty, starvation, and crime happen because, somehow, we have litle idea of what we truly are as opposed to what we believe we are, and so we malfunction, we're largely confuse, not knowing how we're supposed to think or behave. The true reasons remain hidden from us just under the surface of comprehension due to our lack of curiosity and our ignorance of many truths.

It's like the question I've recently been asking myself—have I been writing a blog for the past ten years, or haven't I? Is this page of commentary a true blog, or isn't it? I've refreshed my memory and come to a conclusion by scooting around most of the blogs I like—thinking about them—and then thinking about my own wrritings, or what I've been calling a blog. And you know what? I guess I've not been writing a blog, after all.

Most of the bloggers I like, first watch or read the news and comment upon an event or someone's remarks, or a government policy with which they agree or disagree, or, perhaps, merely a thought they might have had about something of political or general interest. These bloggers also write often, probably because the blog is the primary non-familial interest of their lives.

That's not the case with me. The blog isn't my main interest in life outside of family. Convincing the American people to change their destructive political system is. I don't write often, but I consistently write about the probability of a better world for working American families and I've finally realized I'm a crusader.

I'm an idealist. I have always believed people better than what their societies have molded them to be. I have long felt something is wrong with the U.S. republic and about fifty years ago, during the 1960s and 1970s the Vietnam War, I began a serious search for answers to what I believed obvious questions. I didn't realize I would become a crusader, but in hindsight, it is what I now am.

The search first caused me to create and adopt a practical philosophy for myself that I called "Active Humanism, "which to this day I adhere. It then led me to write and publish two books—that were originally supposed to be one book, but which I thought had become too long—and possibly too difficult to read in a single publication.

The first is called "The Democracy That Never Was" This is a book that describes my beliefs—based upon historical records—that the wealthy men who created the Constitution of the United States feared both true democracy and a popular government of the majority. It's why they gave us "representative" democracy, which is only a pseudo-democracy and not a true democracy and, which favors wealthy Americans over working Americans.

It's why, today, so few wealthy citizens own or control so much of the republic's natural and productive resources, and why there is such a huge difference between corporate executives annual "earnings" and how little working people earn at the end of one year. The book also offers a theory of how some of these wealthy Americans have been subverting the republic for the last fifty-five years and describes the benefits of a fictional true democracy called "America."

The second book is called "The Malfunctioning Animal" and offers reasons why people do the same foolish or stupid things generation after generation and century after century and what we working Americans should—and could—do about it to function more as humans have been created to function, and to create a better world for ourselves and our children.

Last, but most important, my perseverance has led me to form and promote the American Institute of Direct Democracy in the hope that, eventually, the American people will understand that their current political system is a failure; to realize that life could be better for working families if people would grow up and establish a system of self government in which they, and not professional politicians or wealthy citizens, influence and create the values and laws of their society.

My fictional America is a role model for such a culture and the Institute's Chapters For Change program is a vehicle for educating the general public to the truths of American history and the reasons for quickly making this change.

Long live the idealists of this world, for without them the lowest forms of humanity would rule forever—without challenge.

Despite serious thoughts to the contrary, I've decided to continue calling this page a "blog."