The United States of America was in chaos. But, out of the ashes of all the destruction came positive signs of Americans' indefatigable spirit. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld - who less than two years earlier had been named as the three most evil people on Earth in a 'Mother Jones" reader survey - were all dead, along with 533 members of the most corrupt, incompetent, contemptible, arrogant, cowardly, worthless Congress in U.S. history. Killed, too, were thousands of America's wealthy elitists who lived in gated mansions while secretly manipulating politicians to do their bidding. Hubris-laden celebrities and athletes who'd squandered their lives - and their multi-million-dollar salaries - on nothing except their own largesse, had been eliminated by mass bombings so exquisitely executed by the O.U.T.R.A.G.E. cells around the nation.
Corporate CEOs who led their companies to excessive profits (and lined their own pockets at the expense of their employees) no longer lived. U.S. government bureaucrats, members of the massive military-industrial complex, biased judges, lobbyists, lawyers, and other assorted "devil's advocates" had all been killed. Pharmceutical companies, huge corporations like WalMart and General Motors no longer had 'national headquarters' as O.U.T.R.A.G.E. bombs had turned their glass-and-chrome monuments to excessive wealth into crumbled piles of debris.
The 'Rebellion of '08' had been a tremendous 'success' in the eyes of O.U.T.R.A.G.E. members, who saw their goals realized. Truly a second American Revolution, this band of hi-tech rebels had managed to rid America of the crude excesses that had come close to annihilating one of the planet's most moral, decent societies. While many millions were highly critical of the hypocritical methods O.U.T.R.A.G.E. employed to change their world, many millions more recognized the value of what had been done, and understood why it was the only way it could be done. You were never going to persuade self-absorbed, evil, greedy people to give up their wealth, status, and power just by trying to talk to them; George W. Bush didn't believe in diplomacy, only weaponry. Now, O.U.T.R.A.G.E. had used Bush's own philosophy of war and mass murder against him and his compatriots.
As people rallied to the O.U.T.R.A.G.E. movement, 'common' folks from all over the land began to recognize that they now had a new voice in the leadership and direction of their country. The media was no longer a puppet of the government, nor was the government a puppet of the nameless, faceless elitists who ruled from behind-the-scenes. From now on, America would be ruled by its people. Referendums would reign as the supreme means of law and order. Elected officials, judges, law enforcement authorities and bureaucrats would now hold no power - they would all have to learn that they were, indeed, public servants and would not be allowed to do anything without the express consent of the majority of the population. To conduct such a social-political experiment in a diversified country of 300,000,000 people would be a gargantuan undertaking, requiring the cooperation of all citizens.
On Friday, February 1, 2008, a resolution had been introduced to establish term limits for all elected officials. That resolution was now being molded into formal legislation that would become part of the ballot in November. No longer would judges be given lifetime positions. No longer could members of Congress settle into a cozy lifetime career of privilege and corruptive excess. No longer would family dynasties with the last names of Kennedy or Bush be able to manipulatively manage to overtake the basic premise of free elections and individual political participation. Government "by the people, of the people, and for the people" would become more than just another patriotic gesture; it would in effect become of new law of the land.
And hundreds of thousands of 'common' people like Christina, Annette, Paullette, Jil Adams, Ron Oetting, Liza, Bob and Cher Ryan, Phil and Janie Baker, Lynn Patrick and Patrick Hamilton were now joining ranks to become an integral part of the new process of government by the people. These were people who never would have dreamed about being involved in politics or government. Critics claimed their inexperience would destroy the protocol of politics. In reality, it was their common sense and inexperience that made them perfect political reformers. Critics, of course, claimed it was "impossible" and that "nothing would ever get done". Proponents, of course, argued that nothing got done anyway, as elected officials spent more time getting re-elected, making behind-closed-door deals, and piggishly sucking off the taxpayers' teats.
On April 17, 1973 a fledgling little parcel delivery company called Federal Express started operations. FedEx founder and CEO, Fred Smith, had been told by his professor that his college treatise on a global overnight delivery service was "impossible" and wasn't even feasible. On September 15, 1982 the premier edition of the country's first full-color, nationwide daily newspaper was launched by a colorful, eccentric publishing guru named Allen Neuharth. His competition pooh-poohed the idea, saying it was 'impossible" and would never work. Within its first year of publication, virtually every daily newspaper in the nation had copied USA TODAY's color weather map and abbreviated style of reporting. Were Smith and Neuharth just madmen, consumed with "impossible" dreams? Or, was there a method in their madness that drove them to such innovative achievements? FedEx became the world's leading shipping company through continued innovation and a company culture entrenched in innovation and continuous efforts to ourperform its competition through employee participation and attention to detail. USA TODAY became the flagship newspaper of the Gannett Co., Inc., making it the largest media conglomerate in the world.
The United States government, and the U.S. Congress, had become bloated with inefficiencies, corruption, and a complete lack of purpose or direction. As the country's political system lumbered on, it only became more corrupt, more inefficient, and more cumbersome. The very reason for the government's existence didn't even exist anymore. Instead of serving its people, it held its people hostage through an awkward, mangled entanglement of deception and divorcement.
At least this new system of participatory government would bring more people into the process of governing our nation instead of allowing such a vital function to be put into the manipulative hands of a handful of mindless miscreants.
Colin Powell, John McCainand Bill Clinton were among the political 'superstars' who had been recruited by O.U.T.R.A.G.E. to help lead the country into dramatic change. They could only do it with the help of 300,000,000 Americans, but there seemed to be a sense of confidence that those Americans were up to this "imposible" challenge.