Reply #5: Well, I was just asked if I was planning to read the book [View All]

by a nurse from the VNA, earlier today.

Just as the mass media in the US don't cover the real issues, they don't cover the way Americans, nonetheless, learn of and to some degree or another begin to comprehend the real issues.

Americans are pissed (75% or so, to be precise, which would cover pretty much the "average American"), and while I'm sure the details of the book are useful and informative, and it would be great if Americans heard of this and other books that would give them a fuller understanding of the issues, no one needs to tell the average American that the rich are taking advantage of every opportunity to screw both themselves and other people around the world.

What Americans need now, frankly, is to know what to do about all of this. We need the equivalent of "Buddhist Monks" to lead the way. Frankly the protests of the usual left groups, like ANSWER, will never succeed at moving America (unless "moved to disgust" counts). I wonder if we will find our leadership among labor groups, like the auto worker, or whether it's the fed-up netroots who will step out from behind our keyboards and take the actions that focus the collective anger of Americans to create a solution. Perhaps it will even be the rank-and-file military who can't take it anymore and who decide to fight for what it was they actually took an oath to, rather than for an extralegal empire.

A few months ago I was holding out hope that the new Democratic Congress would understand the politically volatile state of this nation and take steps necessary to resolve the crisis. The Move On crap drove the final stake into that hope. Now, I'm just hoping for the least disruptive, most peaceful, political revolution possible (assuming a revolution to restore the Constitution can in fact be called "revolution").