I personally think we're mostly moderates. All of us. When we peel away our conditioning and brainwashing and personal and group fears, we're all reasonable. The Golden Rule. We want ours and can understand that other people want theirs.

But politicians and bankers and religions balkanize us so completely that we lose sight of the fact we all have more in common than we do in difference.

In the US, the Republican / Democrat paradigm is a perfect example. We're all compassionate, but we don't want to give 90% of what we worked for to the 'welfare state'. And we don't want to starve children through lack of social programs. The answer is somewhere in the middle. An answer we would probably all accept if given the choice.

But the power-brokering monied elite have divided us into two political camps. So we don't agree on anything, and meanwhile the fortunes continue to be made off armaments and insurance scams and pharmaceutical scams and corporate land-grabbing disguised as environmentalism while we are distracted.

Ron Paul is a medical doctor. A compassionate man. Yet he was a Libertarian (radical conservative) before he became a Republican. Became a Republican because there was no way in hell a 'third party' candidate could be elected in this district. And he has the most 'conservative' voting record in congress. He wants the Federal govt to do two things 1) deliver the mail and 2) provide a standing army to guard the borders. As the Constitution outlined.

And now he's saying his party, the Republicans, need to be overthrown. That statement is a Declaration of Independence. I'm afraid now he'll be Wellstoned before long.

The foreign interests which have seized the US through the Bush-backed CIA terrorist organization will NOT allow independent thinking. Small fry like myself aren't even on the radar yet, but Ron Paul is now in the crosshairs, I'd be willing to bet.

DG