Reply #63: Just the idea

[H2O Man]

that there are alternatives to sitting back in our living rooms, watching the tv and saying, "Gosh it's awful!" would come as a shock to the majority of Americans. In a thousand ways, our culture tells us that we are mere spectators to the insanity, and that all power resides in the fools on capital hill. The American people have lost touch with the Power of Ideas. And the idea that we can indeed take actions -- from those very living rooms! -- needs to come to the attention of the public.

I've mentioned on DU before the story of the sleeping giant .... his house has caught on fire, and the town's people are desperately trying to find a way to carry the sleeping giant to safety. They see the door is too narrow for them to carry him out, and the windows are far too small .... finally, a child says, "Wake the giant up, and he'll walk out himself." And that's what we need to do -- with ideas like that which you mention here -- is to wake the giant up.