You are being alarmist, Don. There is not a simple, dichotomous solution to a decade and a half of Republicrat rule, and the selling out of the planet by the US ruling elite.

You, and other Democrats like you, claim there are but two alternatives. Vote Democratic to "stop the bleeding" (your words) or "bloody revolution".

There is no need for bloody revolution, but perhaps you are not enough of a visionary and creative thinker to see that.

You are old enough to remember the Velvet Revolution and Tiannamen Square, Don. It is enough to radically galvanize public opinion sometimes. There are other ways to strike at the heart of the beast, like non-cooperation. The way to take back our government is to make the nation ungovernable. No guns, no flaming radical lefties throwing Molotov cocktails at tanks.

The problem with the anti-war protests around the world in the lead up to the Iraq war was it was controlled by middle class activists who weren't willing to go the distance.

If the around the world anti-war protest had lasted for weeks into months--if people were willing to take a leave of absence from their jobs to stay in the streets--Baghdad wouldn't be burning today. Bush would have been impeached by now.

You have to ask yourself this Don: is voting all I'm willing to do? Because if it is, you are part of the problem.