Reply #150: Well, correct -- but that's another issue -- [View All]

And, I agree, as Howard Zinn made clear, real change comes from OUTSIDE of the parties.

The Senate is there to hold the status quo. And we have too few -- and too many wealthy --

members of the HOUSE for anything meaningful to happen there. Even the Founders were

unhappy with our low numbers in the people's house --

Last time I calculated the figures, US vs Great Britain, their representation was something

like 1 member for every 75,000 Brits -- whereas ours was 1 member for every 750,000 Americans!

Don't know what the figures are now, but certainly haven't improved -- especially with

Gerrymandering by Repugs.


It's not only our elections -- our entire system whereby the public and organizations truly

representing the public interest have been shut out -- only corporate power has influence

and leverage on Congress these days. Plus, we've pretty much been electing elites --

millionaires and multi-millionaires to Congress for decades.


Agree with you on strikes -- however, you have to recall that the highest union representation

America every reached was 39% -- think we're down at 7% now, or less?

With the largest union ever -- the Teacher's -- under attack by Duncan and Obama -- and DLC

Rahm.

They no longer have the $$ and therefore they no longer have the power to have leverage over

elected officials.

What you have to do is to appeal to ALL American workers as LABOR -- unite them in thinking --

and in anti-corporate actions. Lights out -- pulling cars off the roadway at a given signal

for 15 or 20 mins at a time -- cutting the banksters out of our shopping and foregoing the

credit cards -- and if you do strikes, imo, they should begin with brief strikes --

calling people out from 3:30 in the afternoon -- or at 11:30 for a few hours.

But you need to have every American identify as LABOR for this to go anywhere, imo.