Reply #61: I would be the last person to say that Dems in office is a panacea. But

[Peace Patriot]

you've got to start somewhere, and I believe we've been thrown wa-a-a-ay back, pre-1776. The mechanism of self-rule--the vote--is now directly --not indirectly through campaign contributions, lavish lobbying, limitation on debate, etc.--but DIRECTLY controlled WITH SECRET VOTE TABULATION FORMULAE by BUSHITE corporations.

As I said, it's staring us in the face. It's one thing to have a degraded democracy. It's quite another thing to NOT HAVE a democracy. Chomsky calls it a "democracy deficit." It's far more than that. It's a fascist coup. WE. HAVE. LOST. OUR. RIGHT. TO. VOTE.

We've got to face this. We have a window of opportunity to change it, at the state/local level, where ordinary people still have some influence. And there is a strong grass roots movement to do just that. What I'm hoping is that overturning these election theft machines will be the spark that ignites American revolutionary energies. Kind of like the tea tax. One outrage too many.