Doug - Referring to an early post of yours on this thread...   Political parties are the problem, not the solution. It won't help one bit for "progressive leftists" or any other supposed bloc of people to form yet another political party.

Arguing about the relative merits of the existing parties is hardly more relevant at this point than still arguing about whether England should be ruled by the House of Lancaster or the House of York.

Political parties (and the way they are funded) ARE the problem. Particularly LARGE political parties. The USA is particularly unfortunate in that it is dominated by just 2 of them. The only worse scenario is to be dominated by just one party, as in China, for example. That is the ultimate triumph of false propaganda and misapplied power.

Political parties do not serve humanity, they serve themselves...and the major lobbyists who fund them. The rest is smoke and mirrors, designed to win the next election. Your public instinctively knows this, and that is exactly why fewer and fewer people are voting in each succeeding decade. They know they've been had, and they know that their vote is virtually meaningless...under the existing system.

I still vote...but only for ONE reason...so you fellows who still believe in the system can't say to me "You didn't vote? Then what gives you the right to complain?" I know my vote won't change things. LOL! It's a game, Doug, played by rich and powerful people at your expense, and if you can't see that...you've been had.

Actually, even if you can see it you've still been had anyway...

*(By the way, this problem I just described with political parties is the same problem that has occurred historically with labour unions, churches, and other entrenched power structures when they grew old, large, and corrupt. They started serving themselves at the expense of the general public. And for what? Money and power.)

The only thing that can change it is an absolutely radical change in the way power is apportioned out in society. A completely new philosophy put into action. A revolution more profound than the one that occurred in 1776. But not a revolution of the gun.

- LH