Difference between me and Al Gore is that I would still be fighting. But that just show how the status quo remains the singular binding element in American politics.        

Jessie Jackson is organizing a protest for the Inaugration event. So much for any real political impact. His message, no matter how righteous, has, like us all, old. I still like the Day of a Million Moons idea. Something like that would define the historical perspective. It is "taxation without representation" again. We have come full-circle to the point that the American Revolution began...we just don't know it yet.

So I am looking around for alternatives that are more consequential than that which has come before. I found this way before the election:
 http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/polit/damy/PRWebSites/PRWebSites.htm      

It is an idea that several governments have used for their base politic...Nebraska, they tell me, is a porportional representational state form. I do know they are the only state that in not bicameral (two houses in the State Assembly). They have only one.

I think that the Senate itself is a left over from the Hamilton "unwashed" prejudices. Like the Electoral College, the so-called Founding Fathers (read that "Rich Guys Long Ago") opted to make CONTROL the basis of government, grounded in property rights (which women did not have until Oklahoma). That makes both a George W Bush and Al Gore...and most the elected in this country on all but the municipal level.

Jessie Ventura is so rare that, but for his celebrity, his rise to the statehouse in Wisconsin would have gone unseen by the media. Repulicans own the media...like we don't know that, right?

Below from the Washington Post Letters

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What irony.
My vote can be thrown out through no fault of my own because my precinct uses machines that work only 98 percent of the time, while my friend in another precinct votes on a machine that is more accurate. And this is not a violation of the equal protection requirement?
On the other hand, if someone tries to manually count my ballot by identifying the hanging chad, this is considered a violation of equal protection because my ballot may not be treated the same as that of some other disenfranchised voter.
The ways of conservative justice are strange indeed.
GREGG WILSON
Providence, R.I.

  Gregg from Rhode Island hit the nail on the head but it didn't drive it into the granite that is the American status quo. I want revolution. Peaceful revolution. The revolution of passive resistance. The Alpha revolution. Revolution that asks the question, "If 'getting something done" is the new Republican goal, what is that "something?" And what is "done?" For that matter, I want to define revolution; then go out and make it happen.     Still, it is easy to procrastinate. That this is the end-play on the Karma residual that Regan-Bush wrought; that created the impeachment; that brought the Gingrich Congress; and tips the arugment against a womans' right to her own body's reproductivity.     Moving before the right time, or too late, will have less than a desired effect. Now is time to wait and see, to learn alternatives and choose a course of action. It is possible that this will heal itself. It is equally possible that it will not. Taking this event too seriously is as wrong as not taking it seriously enough.