Sir;...As this country was constituted the people; the common people were denied political power, and it has grown worse from that point till today. We were denied power because we were tired, unwashed, and uneducated. By our leaders we were considered a mob, and denied our democracy for which many had worked and numbers had died. The real tragedy is not that, as bad as it was. An aristocracy can often govern as sensibly as a democracy. The real tragedy, and the thing that is killing this country is that having been denied political power because we were uneducated, we were kept uneducated in order to deny us power. Who would not vote for education if it were within their power? Everyone would vote for that, but I have yet to see it on the ballot...Sure we can educate children as long as the right decides what will be taught, again with an eye to continued ignorance. What did we do to the Negroes? What did we do the the Native Americans. What have we put every immigrant through? What human rights have we denied to labor in the name of profit??? The schools are silent to our children on so much, and now exhaust themselves trying to deny the right of the religions to dominate class time with more absolute garbage passed as science... Are we prepared to vote??? Look at how much time we give to politics.... Is that for fun??? We don't have a choice. And still we must choose bad from worse... When do we get to decide??? When are the issues laid before the voters so they can consent??? We all work such terrible long hours for so little pay because we are denied democracy... It is not just education we are denied, but at the very moment when government and economy are both tipping and teetering toward destruction we must give poitics our greatest attention -when we have already given the boss the best of everything... Until we have democracy we will not have education. Nor will we have rights, justice, or liberty... The want of democracy means the want of opportunity, and fair wages, and even the respect we are due from our fellow citizens...The fact no one can deny, is that it does not matter... Everybody knows we have no real control over our government... We take the hushpuppies it throws us along with the crap... We know we have no choice, but that only lowers the hope and raises the fear. Everyone is insecure... What was that old Jim Morrison line- The future's uncetain and the end is always near... We are right to keep our eyes on the road and our hands upon the wheel... No one can say what is going to happen, but we all know things can't go on like they are....Thanks...Sweeney