It's hard to see how any meaningful change is possible as long as voters continue "choosing" between Democrat OR Republican.Yep but no change from the previous administration.
Citizens United seems to have ensured even more money from the richest 1% of voters will be used to pre-select the candidates from both major parties.
Republicans AND Democrats could be FLUSHED by the hundreds from DC beginning in 2012.
With very little additional effort required beyond casting a ballot.
How?
Seriously GP, how?
What organization can the people rally behind that won't be just another cut-out shamocratic organization orchestrated by the powers that be?
The Tea Party? MoveON.com?
Anybody or any person who becomes a real threat to the Puppeteers is targeted for takeover or character assassination.
Frankly I am dubious that this nation's path to a more democratic, more economically just society can be found through the election process.
This society's fundamental flaw is philosophical, not political.
We are a nation of materialists and a highly materialistic people are far too easy to divide and conquer, far too easy to anticipate and manipulate.
The "I got mine, get yours; Greed is good" zeitgeist replaced the nationalistic zeitgeist that once existed.
Nationalism is a kind of commmunal sense that means that enough people will do the right thing. That enough of them will make that personal sacrifice in day to day decision making that it takes to make community vibrant and functional.
And as long as one can always hire one worker to kill another the GOLDEN RULE will be in effect.
It isn't politics by which the American people are captured and controlled, it is by economic means that they are kept powerless.
And NOBODY is challenging the economic machinations that keep them and this nation on a path to destruction.
Spot on. Too bad I can't rep you again yet.