Reply #11: Not much hope. [View All]

[cyclezealot]

Sorry, but I do not hold out much hope. DeLay and his cronnies are bent on making this a one party monopoly. First,you have to fight the media. The media has caused our people to be asleep to reality.
Then you have gerrymandering. As Common Cause once stated...You do not have a Constituency in search of a congressman, but a congressman in search of a constituency.
Before democratic values can prevail in this country we need systemic change. I advocate using state initiative to change the way we elect congress members..Why not proportional representation and public financing.... That would really shake up the system and we would have representatives that reflect its constituents,instead of being patsies for the lobbyists.
Otherwise a Democratic president can only slow down the regressive nature of the congress.
The states of Maine and Arizona have instituted public financing and we see the promise of positive change.