Not that I’ve done that, but i could! If I cared, that is.

I used to believe they were possible and the part of me that is still capable of hope, still believes they are. But that is a desperate hope, born of the understanding that if they don’t change, we simply won’t survive – and my desire to see my children do just that…survive I mean.

What’s really funny – in a sad, dark sort of way, is that I am almost certain that the vast majority of us are reasonably cognizant of at least some steps that might bring us back from teh brink. Even people who I mostly disagree with on most things, understand that one fo the biggest barriers we have to engagement (in the U.S.) is political parties. I don’t think I know a partisan hack for every twenty people I know definitely aren’t. Yet with very few exceptions, all of them faithfully vote for republicrats, because if they don’t, their vote won’t count.

I have little doubt that if everyone who believes that political parties – or at least the two major parties in the U.S. marginalize them as voters actually stopped fucking voting for them, they would evaporate within a few election cycles, if not immediately. It may well cause a greater diversity of ideas, not necessarily better ideas for teh most part, but it would also mean that actual voters would be represented. But of course, if we don’t vote fucking republicrat, our votes don’t count…Not that they actually count anyways.