[lindabaker]

We are way past furious. We can elect fine people on the local level. We can write and call our congress. We can elect a new president. We can elect new congress members. All for nothing. In the meantime, we pay 40% income tax, and can hardly afford to heat our homes or pay for food. (And we are middle class.) Our system is now set up to totally ignore the will of the people in "regular" America. As more and more people wake up, there are two choices: Do nothing, and let the bast@rds run the country right into world war, or fight now and possibly have civil war. How otherwise do we peacefully change the ones at the top of this huge pile of cr@p? There were glimmers of hope 40 years ago, and huge glimmers of hope in 2008. Now, we enter the breaking point. Will Americans protest? Or will they go back to their 12 hour work days, exhausted, poorly nourished, and lacking the will to do anything but survive another work week? That is, if they have work (and food) at all. Malaise has been engineered, from tv to recreational drugs, to pharmaceuticals. Where is the true spark of the beginning of the end of this mad dream? Any ideas from any of you in other countries? Corporate fascism has taken hold in every avenue here...small businesses cannot survive high levels of taxation, and the only choice is to try to feed our families by slaving for these companies. Why would these companies deliberately break the backbone of the most bountiful nation in terms of resources? Why? I grew up loving my country (the land itself) and I still do. Sincerely, any ideas on how to lawfully and peacefully break the chains?