I have always stayed far away from violent people like "J.T.", Don. I do not identify with his type at all.

Bill, you clearly have far more faith in the Democratic Party than I do... ;-)

I don't place too much hope in what the candidates say. They all say all kinds of wonderful sounding stuff in order to get votes. It's what they do after they're elected that concerns me, and I think you will find that it's usually not what they said they would do before they were elected....unless they said they would do something really, really stupid! (as in the case of the Republicans)

In that case, yeah, maybe... ;-)

What I am in favor of is not violent acts of revolution by misguided individuals like J.T., but a transformation of political consciousness which lead to the demise of those 2 phony parties, the Democrats and Republicans, which would destroy their stranglehold on the American political scene and result in them being replaced by something far better.

I would prefer a system with NO political parties...none whatsoever...just candidates. All independent candidates. No more damn party politics, because parties sell out to the highest bidder, and the highest bidder is not Joe Public. It has ever been so. Parties are big organization that work for other big organizations...because that's how they get the funding to stay alive and to WIN the next election. It's a matter of practical survival, and that's why they do it.