When did he say we should do nothing, Bobert? I don't think anyone here is suggesting to "do nothing". The primary thing that leads to the endless arguments between GfS and his loyal opposition here is simply this: he criticizes Obama and the Democrats as well as criticizing the Republicans. He says they're both wrong.

If he concentrated only on criticizing the Republicans and the Right, instead of attacking both the Right and the Left in the USA, you'd love him. ;-) But he doesn't restrict his attacks to only one partisan angle. He attacks both of them. And that's why these disputes keep arising. It troubles you that he attacks Obama and the Democrats...you hardly even notice if he attacks the Right (and he does), because you are so incensed over him attacking the Left.

Well, the thing is, from outside the USA it looks very much like those 2 parties are really serving the same imperial, military, and banking interests...but are tailoring their divisive rhetoric quite differently to appeal to 2 bitterly divided constituencies in the USA (sometimes called "liberals" and "conservatives", among other things).

And yet...they both go to war in foreign lands, they both abrogate your civil rights, they both privatize public institutions, they both bail out banksters, they both lie and grandstand to get your votes...but they deliver superficially different messages about various emotionally-charged (and sometimes very trivial) issues to manipulate different sectors in your public.

Right now, for instance, Obama is maneuvering around the issue of gay marriage. I doubt that it's an accident...or a sudden noble inspiration he got. I think it's a calculated election tactic. Romney is put in an awkward place by that tactic (he wouldn't want to be seen as a homophobe...but he wouldn't want to be seen as a traitor to the fundamentalist Christians either...so he has to tread very carefully in how he responds...his method of responding looks like it will be to barely respond at all). I think Obama's people have gambled that it will work well for them. It is a gamble, because it might backfire at the polls.

Anyway, I think it's a distraction to what they really care about in the high levels of power. They couldn't care less about gay marriage rights one way or the other (in my opinion)...it's a non-issue to most of those guys in truth...but they do care deeply about fighting wars, making money, having power, and controlling oil.

The rest is just a shiny bright ribbon tied around Pandora's Box to get the public all worked up about something that will hopefully translate into votes in November. It's the usual electoral soap opera that happens every 4 years.

And we'd all like to do something to change the way things are. But what? That is the $60 trillion dollar question, and I'm certainly not going to say that I have the answer to it, because I know darned well that I don't. Hell, I have enough trouble changing my own life in any significant way without lapsing into the incredible hubris to think that I would have a prescription all worked out for changing America!