Well, Little Hawk, that's start but it's also a finish if you are going to shrug your shoulders and keep complaining to your friends. Let's, just for a moment, pretend that voting does count and that the problem is that the message hasn't been properly sold or that it is just not the right message for this populace. It's not that they wont buy liberal programs, they just have to be convinced, and whatever message you've been sending hasn't convinced them, yet.
Don't sell the system short. It's got more holes than a harmonica but it has, within itself, the means for its reform and the potential for peaceful revolution. You just have to know how to work it. You need ferver and a national sense of need, you need numbers. The Christian Right achieved their political power through the ballot box. If the Left had some of that passion, they wouldn't be in the embarrassing state of impotance they are today.

                         Mike