I am continually amazed by LH and Akenaton and all pretending that we don't all know we live in a corporate-controlled state. Has anyone indicated in any way that we DON'T know that?

The problem, for me, is that there is shit-all I can do about it. I have a job, play in a band, own a home, have a partner and pets. There isn't time to go out and change the world, especially since I know in advance that I would spend the rest of life trying and not succeeding. I choose to not waste my life in that way. I speak when I have the opportunity, and vote against the worst offenders. Standing in the street protesting isn't going to do any good. Changing the laws is only possible, for me, slowly and at the ballot box.

And I'm still left with the question of who to vote for. I can promise you that I'm not going to vote for Obama - his record doesn't stand up to his promises in some ways that are very important to me. He is, however, going to get my vote as I vote against whatever Republican gets the nomination. While Obama hasn't kept some promises, he is very, very, very much better than the Republicans. Any of their promises, if kept, are hugely worse than all of Obama's broken promises put together.

Oddly, I can think of all this while also being aware that I am socialist living in a country governed by capitalistic, theocratic economic totalitarians where my rights to an equitable income and normal privacy are tenuous to non-existent.

So Little Hawk and Akenaton, what are your short-term plans for dealing with the situation? What are your long-term plans? Where is the lever that will move the world? What actions are you taking? Who should we vote for this year? Or should we just refuse to participate in a crooked, flawed system? Do you have anything to offer other than going on an internet forum and hurling mockery at people who are actually trying to fix some of the little things?