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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

>  One thing that wealthy and powerful fear as much as they fear your vote 
> is your independence.  If you are not in debt or beholden to them in some 
> other way, their power over you is limited and he source of their wealth 
> is stiffled.

I am lifted by knowing people like you and maybe a few thousand more 
persist in the independence/self-reliance/self sufficiency dream. I share 
it. But we are as drops of water in the river of society.

The masses live for sugar, salt and fat; their idea of exercise is walking 
from the car to the elevator; their contentment is a full-belly family in a 
30-year mortgage house with a credit-card large-screen TV with surround 
sound; their concept of citizenship is voting once every four years. 
Independence is limited to rants. Politicians correctly view them as 
sheeple and fear mostly that those who don't vote might become energized.