Sir;... If we want change, and are unhappy with what is going on; then some one is going to have to prove it to me... And the real problem may be that we cannot talk to the government except through the archaic form of an election of people...Imagine if you had a stroke, how long it might take you to lodge a complaint by blinking once for yes, and twice for no... All we get is a yes or no, and the problem is that too many are saying yes and no to the same person... If, as in fuzzy days past when our democracy worked, and only thirty thousand sent a representative to Washington; if, we all could talk together with a single voice, and have a say in our laws, and deliver or withhold our consent to all that occured; then we would have democracy... Today our representatives work for 600K plus people... All of those people live in deliberatly divided districts so that no single voice is heard, and that situation robs all of our voices of their sense...This cannot possibly contribute to the functioning of self government...And for their parts, our leaders are like the captains of an over loaded ferry fearing a shift in company from starboard to port... You say the people suffer disappointment and disgust???I think they feel insecure and hurt... No doubt, many also feel ashamed, and humiliated...What ever this people has to say may be sobbed in tears, and that is only justly so considering how much of our lives we have had to devote to supporting and driving a government and an economy that will not work... The problem with social movements is all laid out here...We would like to speak and act with a single will... The reality is that people want change, and are everywhere conservative... Out of fear we cling to the past, and out of necessity we grasp the future, so instead of having a current or a flow, our movement is like a bubbling cesspool rather than a mighty river...Because we can move this way and that, we think we are free, and that we can change...In fact, true change is frustrated at every turn, so no forward progress is had... This people may be able to explode out of frustration, but it cannot move anywhere... Government should bring unity to the people, but it fears our unity...We have become a pawn against a queen, and how can the whole people be a pawn??? Only great failure will get this people moving, and then, perhaps, with violence... As many people now fear that the government will one day function as those who know its present failure- that is a failure of communication -represents a fatal flaw....If our government cannot give us equal rights with Europeans why does it exist??? Should we not have at least equal rights with them to health care, and collective bargaining?? When will reason speak to these men and tell them there is no private health matter that is not a public health problem??? I would say, that if the people cannot govern then reason should govern; but now, the parties rule...If a few can be convinced that the Euopeans are not good enough to deserve second rate health insurance, then the parties can justify doing nothing... If our government cannot govern business, and yet governs people to suit business then it is not ours, and our lack of communication with government is the means of our defeat... I can't hear anyone while everyone is talking, but our representatives have accepted a world where hundreds of thousands must be heard, and yet are each, set one against the other... They have hobbled us... They have ranged us against each other so we will waste our effort trying to move our neighbor...Gone are the days when some few could tell their representative to not come back alive without a done job...No one can take a lesson from this last election, or any of them... When they know we need change they will give only enough to hold their seats...Some times desparate voters change their representative out of frustration which may put change off further; but the situation is not getting better for them or for us... Life is change, and people need life... And people need to be able to communicate with their government to survive... The government should remember that violence is not just the failure of communication, but is also a form of communication...If the people are volitile in their votes, trying to send a message to all government, how soon will they resort to the real thing??? And is it necessary; or will government reform itself, increase the number of representatives, do nothing to divide their districts, and figure out how to hear the people??? Communication is not all a one way street, and neither is government...They have been a loose dog for too long... We have to get a rope on them....Thanks...Sweeney