Is it time to sneeze?

What a peculiar question for a political action website. Or is it?

…Do you think our federal, and likely your state government, have far exceeded their proper jurisdiction within our lives?

…Do you feel that government officials neither listen to or obey the will of the people?

…Do you ever get the impression that all of the programs and bills our elected officials pass into law do more to grab power for themselves than empower the people they claim to be helping?

…Do you sometimes think our elected officials and bureaucrats have annointed themselves kings?

Hmmmm…

Remember when you were a kid and you first met that wonderful old man of mirth— the one, the only— Dr. Seuss?

When Dr. Seuss had his elephant, Horton, hatch a neighbor’s egg, we learned the importance of responsibility and of keeping promises.

When the same Horton heard his “Who,” we learned “a person is a person no matter how small” and that “all persons are valuable.”

But, when we read “Yertle the Turtle,” we saw that when we have leaders who no longer value their “persons” and that when these leaders break covenant with their vows to uphold the “value” of their “persons” in favor of personal gain, we learned that the smallest among those “persons” has the ability to topple that tyrant.

The story unfolds to King Yertle the Turtle who has decided that he would always be ruler of “all that he could see.” And he decides that to rule over more, he has to see more. So he commands his turtle followers to stack themselves, one atop the other, with Yertle’s throne sitting on top of the agonized turtle stack. Yertle ignores the cries of his subjects and the sounds of their cracking shells. King Yertle keeps calling for more…more and more turtles to make the tower.

But, in the stack of turtles there is one “ordinary” turtle named Mac. The turtle named Mac, didn’t have to raise armies or climb over other turtles to take on the turtle king. All that the smallest of turtles had to do was exercise his own power from the place in the turtle tower where Mac was living. Mac. with great thought and with great courage, simply sneezed and Yertle fell from his collapsing high tower of turtles. Yertle was then forever, Yertle, King of the Mud.

So how does one go about sneezing? We need to empower ourselves from the place and space where we live. And then…just sneeze.

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