Calling or writing isn't enough. They know what we think.

[Stonepounder]

38. Y'all don't understand. Its over.

Its all over and we've lost. There are a few left in Congress, like Bernie Sanders and Alan Greyson, but basically its over and we've lost. We are basically a one-party state. The Dems have moved so far to the right that you can't recognize them as Dems any more while the Repugs have become Fascist. Nobody cares about the vast majority. We can line up like sheep and vote - for Right wing candidates or far-Right wing candidates. The 1% has won. We are like a patient with end-stage cancer. Dead men/women walking. They are killing our schools, our jobs, our way of life and there ain't a damn thing we can do about it.

When the West Virginia coal miners tried to organize in the 1920's, the President sent in the troops. Look at the arms they had in the 20's and compare it with what the army has now. Writing and calling doesn't work, voting doesn't work, and mass demonstrations don't work. We're done for. But it really doesn't matter, since we are destroying the planet as well. Between deforestation of the Rain Forests, GM crops, fracking, overfishing, global warming, and the lot, there ain't gonna be much to save in a couple of generations anyway.

I'm glad I'm old and I won't live to see it all happen, but I feel sorry for my grandchildren, or at the latest, their children who will witness the collapse of human civilization. We can't go on this way, but the PTB are bound a determined that they have to have that next billion, and to hell with everything else.