so, i would like to believe you all are backing gravel's 'initiative for democracy', which is a cure for creeping dictatorship. but in fact, that would require you to be responsible for your actions and your fate.

you'd rather sit on yer bums and whine.

this year, but a nation that elects dubya twice, and nixon, and reagan, clearly isn't troubled by ethics, intellect, or even simple long term survival considerations.

mccain is a chance, simply because he's clearly better than dubya. if he can co-opt romney into the ticket, they will have militarism and greed on their side, commonly a winning combination in america.

but the dems are pulling in new voters, and more money and must be favorites. i wish this were a cause for rejoicing, but obama is just blather, and clinton is just another weather vane politician. no salvation there.

how amusing. many roman emperors bought their way onto the throne in similar fashion, although their 'voters' were the roman mob, and later the legions.

wouldn't you prefer to vote for policies, and for laws? wouldn't you prefer that candidates put their program on the web, and take office when that program was accepted through referendum?

isn't it about time political structure caught up with google, cloning, and (not so) smart bombs?

it needs an amendment establishing citizen initiative. then the people can create long term policies that don't depend on the continuous selflessness of politicians.

it would also check excesses of ego, corruption, and simple insanity. america's leaders don't display these characteristics? never? what, never ever?

he's the incarnation of 'bad america', a section often in charge of the nation, always in charge of foreign policy.

'good america' is a minority, that gets to run things for a little while when b. a. has truly stuffed things up.

would be a strong team, like a cross between a tiger and a crocodile. but they don't mate in the field and not even the rnc can sew this monster together in their secret lab.

on the other hand, they made bush-cheney look like two human beings, so perhaps weird science is farther along than i know.

than terrorists. that's why the people should have oversight of the government. that is why democracy is important, and americans should try to get it. mike gravel has a plan, have you read it? or are you hoping the politician cat is going to protect the mouse people?

i think i see why large chunks of america are looking seedy. divert half that money into productive things like schools and hospitals, public transport and green initiatives, then gradually things will get better.

in the short term, obama's plan looks best. or if the m-i complex is 'too hard', do each in turn. ron paul's plan should be last, though. by then america will be using barter and bicycle generators outside the military bases, and the gold standard will be appropriate.

i think i see why large chunks of america are looking seedy. divert half that money into productive things like schools and hospitals, public transport and green initiatives, then gradually things will get better.

in the short term, obama's plan looks best. or if the m-i complex is 'too hard', do each in turn. ron paul's plan should be last, though. by then america will be using barter and bicycle generators outside the military bases, and the gold standard will be appropriate.

shouldn't you at least demand that they run primaries in each state? it would create a veneer of giving democracy lip-service.

actual democracy would not break out, but a nation whose foreign conquests are justified as 'spreading democracy' will profit from giving color to the lie.

are elections just deck-chair re-arrangement? sure. is obama's 'change' mantra just a superficial hook? you bet. is america doomed? sure thing. does anyone care? not visibly.

it's discouraging, but the usa was designed to be run by an upper class in a world where change was slow and escape to the frontier was possible. the constitution is hopelessly obsolete, the society it shaped is moribund, and the only real concern of the mob is with bread and circuses.

mike gravel, dennis kucinich, even ron paul, see that change, real change is necessary. gravel even had a plan to do it. the elite turned them into unpeople, the dimwits concentrated on the spread, the chatterati prosed endlessly on the color and gender of the candidates, and the band played on.

running a woman or black as the dem candidate is that any dem will beat any repub.

but a nation that elected nixon, and dubya, twice has vast reserves of malignant idiocy.

when jmac steps to the podium and announces that conscription will be necessary for the next surge, will you still be glad you're so progressive?

of the usa is obsolete. but americans don't want to change it in any significant way, so they pin their hopes on faces. this is a formula for disappointment and occasional disaster.

but leviathan staggers on, too big to stop, too stupid to steer, and the world hides it's wealth lest lest the u. s. marine corps bring 'democracy'.

i thought 'the decline and fall of the roman empire' was an interesting read, but didn't apply to the u.s.a. because we had elections. turns out it doesn't make much difference. whether you count voters or count soldiers, if the result is one person has too much power, you get disaster.

i think mike gravel has the way to sanity in his 'initiative for democracy', but i don't think americans are up to democracy anymore, most never were.