Get Up Stand Up Don't Give Up The Fight

This is a wonderfully succinct video. Rachel Maddow pretty well sums up how our system of government is supposed to work. But there is a natural expectation that somehow Republicans/Right Leaning Folks will somehow see "the error of their ways", "their 'wrong' policies/beliefs", and magically change their minds/belief systems. Within just a couple of days after the election, I'm getting the drift that really nothing will change on that side of the aisle - that Republicans and Tea Party candidates will continue hell-bent in their Obstructionist Approach to Obama, his policies, and all things "Democratic" and "Socialist". There is a great deal of cognitive impoverishment and cognitive dissonance out there in the ranks of the Right. The hard work has only just begun. Our votes are not the end of our civic duty - our vote is the beginning of our civic duty. Our job now is to become intimately involved in our own governance at the Local, County, State, AND Federal levels. Pick them all, or pick one issue/area near and dear to your heart. Dedicate an hour a day to following the issues - and becoming involved. How many of us have written to our elected representatives? Or called? Or emailed? I, for one, plan to get involved, and personally meet with every single one of my elected representatives. I plan to let them know that they represent me even though I didn't vote for them. I plan to let them know what my expectations are of them as my representative. I plan to let them know I will be keeping tabs on their actions, statements, and votes that effect me, my loved ones, my precinct, my town, my county, my metropolitan area, my state, my country, my ecosystems, my hydrologic systems, and my planet. I wholeheartedly urge my fellow citizens to do the same. It is time to get up, stand up, and start the hard work of making our world a better place to live.

Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight.



Get up, stand up: stand up for your right
Get up, stand up: stand up for your right
Get up, stand up: stand up for your right
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight

Preacher man don't tell me,
Heaven is under the earth
I know you don't know
What life is really worth
It's not all that glitters is gold
Half the story has never been told
So now you see the light, eh!
You stand up for your right
Come on!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your right
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight
Get up, stand up: stand up for your right
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight

Most people think
Great God will come from the sky,
Take away everything
And make-a everybody feel high
But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth
And now you see the light,
You stand up for your rights, jah!

Get up, stand up (Jah, jah)
Stand up for your right (Oh, hoo)
Get up, stand up (Get up, stand up)
Don't give up the fight (Life is your right)
Get up, stand up (So we can't give up the fight)
Stand up for your right (Lord, Lord)
Get up, stand up (Keep us struggling on)
Don't give up the fight, yeah

We sick an' tired of your ism-skism game
Dyin' 'n' goin' to heaven in-a Jesus' name, Lord
We know when we understand
Almighty God is a living man
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can't fool all the people all the time
So now we see the light (What you gonna do?)
We gonna stand up for our rights (Yeah, jah, jah!)

So you better
Get up, stand up (In the morning, get it up)
Stand up for your right (In the night)
Get up, stand up
Don't give up the fight (Don't give it up, don't give it up)
Get up, stand up (Get up, stand up)
Stand up for your right (Get up, stand up)
Get up, stand up (Don't be a nigger in your neighborhood, yeah)
Don't give up the fight (Get up, stand up)
Get up, stand up (I don't think that should be very good, Lord) (Get up, stand up)
Stand up for your right (Get up, stand up)
Get up, stand up (I said, don't be a nigger in your neighborhood, yeah)
Don't give up the fight