And it's far more productive and effective to talk to real people in the 3D world, write letters to one's political representatives and the editors of various publications, and talk with people face-to-face.

The internet is a great tool for politicking, but there's one thing about talking with people face-to-face. And that is that they have to stick to the subject, and they rarely respond to what you're saying with personal insults. Because there is always the chance that they might be served a knuckle sandwich for talking to someone the way certain people here on these threads do constantly when they don't have a sane answer to someone else's valid point.

There are a couple of other grass roots organizations besides the "Tea Party" who don't make as much noise, but their influence will be felt very strongly, very soon. Organized as a reaction to the excesses of the "Tea Party," but, I might add, they could hardly be called "reactionary." Intelligent and well-informed, meeting through the internet, and getting together when possible in each other's living rooms.

Stay tuned.

Don Firth