Reply #87: I am cynical, no doubt about it.

[Goldstein1984]

But I always say that a cynic is just a skeptic keeping good notes.

I don't believe we are powerless, I believe voting is meaningless if the elected officials prostitute themselves out to Wall Street as soon as they are elected.

You are correct about the "kinda dangerous" part. I'm in favor of a full revolt, stopping short of violence, and I fully expect that the result will be violence directed against citizens (see Pittsburgh G20 Summit).

And I definitely agree that the jury is out on MA. The jury being those who will be voting in 2010 and 2012, and those on trial being any Democratic politician who gets the message of MA wrong.

When I look at that graph you sent--the one that so many Conservadems like to use to show how powerless progressives/liberals--I see about 20% of the electorate voting liberal, in a country where most races are decided by percentages of much less than 10%. We are not powerless.

I have no idea where were are really going, but I'd like to see a future with the Conservadems just go ahead and join the Republican party, where they belong, and give the Democratic Party back to democratic thinkers more worried about human progress than about capitalism and militarism and imperialism.