We can only hope that somehow, someway ... someday

There is more to democracy than voting.

There was an OpEd column in the NY Times, July 29, regarding the ideas Baruch Spinoza introduced in the 17th Century:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/29/opinion/29goldstein.html

We—I mean, us ... the good old vaunted USA—have abandoned reason in our pursuit of what we ought to be, and with it our posture of a rational broker of the world’s future. We can only hope that somehow, someway ... someday we will escape from under the grinding power of the concentrated wealth now imprisoning us.

Note: First written as Comment #15867 by Hilding Lindquist on 7/30 at 5:20 pm in response to www.truthdig.com Ear to the Ground article,
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