One hears quite often that we can make a difference at the ballot box, but I would opine that this is no longer true.
The rallies, protests, 'getting the information out', and all such are useless.
What is driving world affairs is our (collective) lifestyle. We would not be in the Iraq war were there not a demand to enforce our control of the world oil market to keep the McMansions heated and cooled and to buy the gas to commute 60 miles from them to useless make-work jobs in climate controled offices.
For everyone persuaded to tune into Air America (which now has to PAY stations to run its programming) there are five people recommending that folk tune in Limbaugh and Boortz. I'm not endorsing one over the other, only staying they are equally as usleless in changing the status of things.
It doesn't matter who you put into congress or the White House; it doesn't matter who is CEO of what and how much they are paid. So long as the people think that success is the number of cubic inches in the engine and the square teet of the McMansion, we will do what it takes to secure the fuels for this lifestyle.
ONLY a drastic reduction in consumption is going to make a difference. And make no mistake, that reduction is coming either voluntarily or by dire necessity.
My money is on the latter.
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