We are the Champions

My company is implementing new processes.  Consultants have told us we need to appoint several employees in each office as Change Champions.

This is exactly the role citizens should play in American Democracy.  Both Tea Partiers and Occupiers demonstrated it can work.  Money and power continue to be increasingly concentrated.  Yet even the Roberts' Court cannot deny that We are the Champions.

Of course, we have to participate like champions.  To borrow a few sports cliches: we must never give up; we have to contest every "play;" to be champions we must COMPETE.

We must demand that candidates for public office respond to each voter equally.  If they refuse, then we need to become candidates ourselves.

We must demand that corporations become better citizens by reducing unemployment, protecting the environment, and helping educate our children (if the SCOTUS says they are individuals then we give them rights AND responsibilities).

We must see ourselves as equal to the rich and powerful.  "No time for losers--we are the Champions of the World."