By Sarah Turner
Concerned American
Source: Clickhole
America stands at a crossroads. Income inequality, climate change, politics, and so on combine to form one of the greatest challenges in our history. And yet, while I believe we have an opportunity to make progress, I also know that such progress will never happen until Americans come together into a very big circle and talk about it.
This is critical. For real social change to occur, the entire nation must somehow assemble in a gigantic circle and discuss the issues that matter most.
The only question is, how to do it? I’ll be the first to admit I don’t have all the answers. To start, where can we find a big enough venue for the circle? How can we ensure that everyone speaks loud enough to hear each other? Is it better for everyone in the circle to sit or stand? Should the circle include all 314 million Americans or only those of voting age? Will convicts be allowed in? What about those who are deaf or only speak Spanish?
I do know this much, though: We’ll need a lot of space, enough that everyone can have a direct line of sight to whoever’s speaking. We’ll need infrastructure: waypoints stocked with food and water, systems for healing the sick members of the circle and disciplining those who refuse to participate, jackets in case part of the circle has to go through the Rocky Mountains, and T-shirts with American flags on them to build morale and to make the circle look more patriotic.
Of course, I have yet to address the biggest elephant in the room: Where will President Obama be, relative to the circle? Some might assume he should be directly in the center, but it is incumbent upon us as citizens to consider other options, such as having him run around the outside of the circle or fly from place to place in a helicopter. Actually, this could be one of the very first topics we discuss in the giant circle.
Make no mistake: America doesn’t need to be sitting in this big circle sometime next year. America needs to be sitting in a big circle today. America needs to be sitting in it yesterday.
We hold the future in our hands, so let’s not back down now, not while we have all the momentum of history on our side.
I’ll see you in the big circle.
After the Crash 
That’s one way to interpret it. I see it as commentary on the general tendency for the road to hell to be paved with good intentions, no matter what ideology it might stem from.
I do agree, clearly this article was not written to be taken literally, and is somewhat sarcastic. I did read it over several times, and I did come away wondering if she was actually critiquing or supporting our welfare, health care, and tax systems in that paragraph, so that’s why I just decided to give my thoughts on a subject she touched on by taking her words at face value.
One line in this article really bothers me. “we’ll need infrastructure for… disciplining those who refuse to participate.” Whoa lady, back up there. Who the hell does she think she is to discipline me for refusing to take part in her “conversation”? The audacity, my god. This mindset is where tyranny begins. But this type of attitude is typical for the left/progressives, and why it brings out strong emotions in people who want to be left alone. How ready they are to spend other peoples hard earned money, taking it forcibly with government muscle. And its never enough, they constantly need more and more of other peoples money for their perceived righteous causes. The ironic part is that because these types of progressives cannot recognize their own tyrannical behavior/beliefs, they are the ones who actually create the systems of control (i.e. income taxes, forcing poor people to buy health care they can’t afford, etc.), thus they are ones creating, (not exclusively, but in large part) the very inequality they are obsessed with ending.