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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Now, Gene, it isn't that my answer or James' is the only answer, it is the 
inability of so many to do their homework even though they spent 12-13 years 
hearing daily "do your homework."  I am absolutely positive that there are 
much greater minds out there that could, if they should so choose, come up 
with some answers.

I think the one single thing that could be done to really shake it up and 
knock folks out of their complacency and make them at least think about 
thinking (o.k., so I'm pessimistic <g>), is to abolish the party system of 
elections!  If people didn't have "their" party to hang onto, they might 
actually have to look at who they are going to elect!

The public doesn't think.  If they actually did their research, looked at 
everything and then made a decision, I wouldn't be so blooming negative 
about our chances of every fixing the mess we're in.  But they don't and 
they won't and even if they do a little they have umpteen bazillion reasons 
why it is o.k. that this, that or the other thing is wrong with "their" 
candidate.

Hey, maybe that is part of the problem also.   They have too much invested 
in "THEIR" candidate instead of looking at it from the view point of what is 
best for the country.

Like I have said at least a dozen times, I have no dog in this race.  And 
having done my homework, I've done an about face.  I admit that I was 
originally impressed with the pretty speach at the DNC.  However, I can also 
admit that I was WRONG!

Unfortunately, as history has so clearly shown, this country is doing a 
repeat and the closest to what is happening is the sheople fiddling as Rome 
burns!

Lynda, who finally was able to get some tomatoes in the ground cause the 
frost is supposedly gone.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Yeah, we have some here who are pretty sure theirs is the only answer.
>
> Likely a common view of serious homesteaders. Might be accurate, too.