Recently turning fifty and having my father pass have made me more particularly reflective on matters of personal history as well as on  general  generalities.  These reflections have pointed out to me that  those things which  are wrong in my life in particular and in the world, especially America, in general, are all my fault.  I am, by and large, an underachiever.  One might say that I am the most unambitious American ever.  I am not money mad, success seeking, ambition achieving, or dreams driven.  It's not that I don't think that dreams are important and even essential. They are.  But for various and sundry reasons or excuses, my dream was simply to be pretty much left alone to do work I enjoy to pay for a place where I could comfortably and contentedly reside in my beloved, bucolic America, preferably in piedmont North Carolina, as the end of a family line of original Americans.  Charter Americans, if you will.  You know, those people who were British subjects one day and American citizens the next.  It happened back in the eighteenth century.  It was that time of such largely forgotten writings like the Declaration of Independence, The Federalist Papers, The U.S. Constitution, The Bill of Rights.  
      So, at this time, in late 20th-early 21st century America, I chose, for whatever reasons or excuses, to be a good, but unknown American.  I'd vote, serve jury duty and pay taxes.  But I'd let others continue the America in this century that my direct forebears helped construct in that prior century.  And American life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness would perpetually and peaceably progress through the American generations in which I would live and into those that I could foresee.
       For whatever reasons and excuses, I chose to be far more short-sighted and narrow visioned than our far-sighted and visionary Founding Fathers and forebears.  And in this past half century, unimaginable to me as a child, a youth and even as an young adult, that perpetual and peaceable progression has turned to some sort of sickly stagnation in a nation designed to be forever moving forward.  And it's happened because I and other Americans like myself (which includes many, if not most Americans) have allowed our country to be overturned to a leadership of pinheaded, pencil necked Ivy League Democrap dunces and Repulsican morons espousing and practicing the premises of Marxism, New Dealism, and The Great Society,  rather than the basic conservative concepts of Americanism which are the foundations of the greatest human system of governance ever devised and implemented.     We have allowed this to happen by forgetting perhaps the most important passage ever written when Thomas Jefferson penned " ...to secure..rights, Governments are instituted among (People), deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed---(and) whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government ... most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.  Prudence, indeed will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light or transient causes...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations...evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." 
As it was then with British royal rule, it has become now with Repulsican and Democrap dictates. We must NOW  provide for that future security by throwing off such Repulsican and Democrap dictatorial Government or America is not going to have a future, much less a secure future.  You Americans who are mostly from  multi-generational American lineages who don't vote must vote.  And you Americans, also mostly from multi-generational American lineages, who have the ability to govern, must govern. We must gather by the scores of millions  that we are, and throw off the governance of Repulsican and Democrap oligarchy.  Politicians, pundits, and the people who still know and revere the concept of Americanism must unite with a new political-social-economic agenda true to original Americanism, which is, while being cognizant that any society of people is a collective consisting of collectives, America, unlike governmental forerunners, is to be governed by the cultural concept and construct that American collectivism is secondary and tertiary to American individualism. Therefore, those of us who wish for our nation's survival for another 230 years have to get past the petty, meaningless agenda differences dividing us into groups of this or that particular type of American, so that we  can be one group of  individual Americans working and recreating together to forever ensure and effect our personally individual and nationally collective Safety and Happiness. Americans of all demographics, who have a grasp of history, an awareness of current affairs, and any modicum of common sense must save this nation from what it has become and is becoming, and we must do it in the 2008 elections, or it will become too far gone and too late, if it's not already.     
So, why is it all my fault?  Because, for those various and sundry reasons, I didn't pay enough attention in my public high school economics class; I didn't receive my B.S. in Law Enforcement Administration from UNCC c. 1979;  I wasn't instrumental in the implementation of 911 systems throughout North Carolina: I didn't receive my B.A. from UNCG c. 1985, as a pre-law student majoring in communications studies concentrating in broadcasting/cinema, organizational communication and journalism with a political science minor; I didn't receive my M.P.A. in policy administration  from UNCG c. 1987; I didn't write more influential columns  for the campus newspaper and I didn't  convert the university radio station  to at least partial news/talk programming from its horrid music format; I  didn't make any sound, futuristic personal financial decisions during that time; I didn't publish or broadcast or film make or teach on the college level; I didn't actively involve myself in politics beyond voting and verbally vilifying contemporary politicians to those within my narrow social circles; And I didn't defeat Terry Sanford and Lauch Faircloth in the 1992 Senatorial election. 
      If I had been willing to do all that, as I was capable of doing, I would be serving my third term now as an intelligent, well-placed, well-versed third party Senator from the great state of North Carolina and we wouldn't have most of the worries in America that we do now.  How?  Why?  Because that kind of Senator has more political power than the President and can serve to shut down the type of stupidity that is presently present in the U.S. Senate.  Ill conceived, capitulatory  to compromise, and recklessly reconstituted by the early 20th century American Socialists, The Senate is a governmental body in which if I served, I would work for its abolition, to implement a Republican-Democratic form of government with a popularly elected  one house legislature and President, and a much more constitutionally detailed judiciary.  Constitutionally specific Senate duties, like treaty and appointments approval would be performed by a Board of Governors from the several states. 
      More immediate issues would have been the defeat of Bill Clinton; the security of our sovereign borders; the eradication of radical Islam and the NEA; the end of personal and corporate welfare; the creation of a 10th Amendment Commission; the enactment of a policy of energy independence and export; the implementation of execution or exile to The Rat Islands as penalty and punishment for heinous or habitual crime, as well as for any breach of trust of public office; the indictment of the ACLU on Rico statutes; adopting the Fair Tax as the primary  means of federal taxation; a reevaluation of our treaties, especially the U.N. Charter, so that we only participate with a very select few foreign countries in the Capitalist Coalition; and in general, screaming louder than the ill liberal demagogic Democraps and rudimentary Repulsicans.  I accomplished none of that, and that's why it's all my fault.  I apologize for my selfish sin of sloth.
      In a feeble and tardy attempt to do my part as the American whom I am,  with the devices and talents available to me,  I shall put forth, here, and at theip.us, answers to America's ills, which wouldn't be so numerous and critical if I hadn't left them to be cured by others more willing but less able than I.  What conceit allows me to think that I have such abilities and talents? It's not conceit, but confidence and common sense and cognizance that I am always B.N. Sharpe, a formally and informally educated middle class Son of the American Revolution with a heretofore wasted intelligence quotient and inquisitiveness, who could very well be, as one American stated twenty years ago, "in some matters and manners, the wisest man alive."