Reply #64: Well, that might be a start, but I can see you're dead set against it

[MadHound]

As far as what I'm doing, well yes, I have been working on a ballot initiative for publicly financed election campaigns. We had one in my state for the '00 election cycle, but it got shot down on wording technicalities in the Mo court system. We'll see what happens this time around. I'm also involved in local elections and Green party politics. What about you? From your posts I gather that you're still involved in more of the same ol' same ol'. This is not a constructive path to take friend, for it is how we got in the situation we are now.

For me now, it is a toss up between Kerry and the Green party. Kerry hasn't shown me anything substantially different, he strikes me as simply another corporate whore who will continue the corporate screw job on the American people, albeit with a kinder, gentler facade. The only things that are making me pause are the possibility of Supreme Court appointments and the very real possibility of Bush's widening the ME conflict to include Iran, Syria, or both. Kerry is less likely to do this, though there is still a possibility. This is something I'm going to be wrestling with up until election day.

And if taking the corporations out of our government threatens jobs, so be it. Having big business in control of our government hasn't done a whole hell of a lot for the job situation in our country anyway, or haven't you noticed the jobs fleeing the country through outsourcing, or the decreasing of real world wages, or the increasing gap between the rich and the rest of us. I seriously doubt that heaving corporate America out of government will cause further unemployment, in fact I contend the opposite will happen, that more jobs will be created, since the head long rush to outsourcing will be stopped, but hey, you never know.

And Noam Chomsky is hardly the example you are looking for. Outside of polical junkies like ourselves, Chomsky isn't known at all. Moore is probably a better example of what you're looking for, and yes, he is being effective in changing peoples' minds and hearts. I agree with you, we need more of his type around, for the left is seriously lacking in media outlets with which to get their message across

And how you can say I haven't proposed a thing is simply dismissing what I've said in previous posts out of hand. No, they aren't new ideas, but they are good ones that bear repeating as often as possible. As I've said before, continuance of the same ol' same ol' two party/one corporate master system of government is a death knell for democracy in this country. If you wish to sit idly by decrying efforts to reform the system as impractical, feel free. But I prefer to do something to fight corporate encroachment, and if successful, you can thank me when we're done.

Moaning and pissing because you think corporate media won't notice is useless, it is our job to get noticed. You raise a big enough stink and the corporate media will HAVE to notice, if for no other reason than ratings. That is how you change things. Yes, I know it is going to be a long, tough battle, with no sure outcome. But it is better than doing nothing, letting our country slowly slide into facism through neglect and apathy.