Funny, how the walls of tyranny have been maintained by the ruling oligarchy. When I ran for the State House here in Florida in 1992, I had to gather 12,000 signitures to get on the ballot for a little $22K a year job. I wasted weeks standing out front of K-mark and other establishments collecting signiture. I won't do that again. My apponent, Jack Tobin, a Democractic incumbent raised $95K that year and all the incumbents out rasised their adversaries by >8:1.

Couple in the manipulation of the vote counting and control of the main stream media, elected representation has no chance of working. 

We should know this.  Harry Brown wrote a Book on it. "Why Government Doesn't Work".  The real issue is democracy doesn't work and placing a layer of elected representatives on top of a direct democracy, does not solve the problems of the failures of democracy. In fact it add another problem.  The money can go directly to the representatives now.  There are still people who believe the Republican and Democrat adversarial position are real. We have the fascist vs the communists and both lead to tyranny.    

Participating in a system that doesn't work sends a horrible message to the unknowing or misinformed and provides our adversaries with annunition and lies that lend to their tyrannical controls.  It's a form of acquiescense.  Rather than put forth a better system, free enterprise, we are trying to use a failed system to promote and establish a better system.   

The money we are wasting is unconscionable.  How many more years are we going to smake our heads against the wall.

Keep protesting and voting and see where it gets you. 

 Dear Skip,    stop protesting and see what it will get you.