Princess Grace - yes - people do understand, and people do speak out. I get a call once in a while from the Congressman for this area and it is a ‘town hall’ meeting on the phone. A huge conference call with hundreds of people on the line at once. Sometimes they go on for a couple of hours - but people - regular joes in the neighborhood, express their strong disagreement with many of same things that you do. I would not be able to tell you whether these people were repubs or dems. They do get it, they are not all stupid and don’t care, as it seems you present them. They are Americans - and get what being an American is. Like you and yours are the only ones that care? They do care, they are not activists but they do what they want to, and many of them write emails. All right, so I said letters, because for years I wrote letters, so now I write emails. If I misspeak and am not exactly on the correct word, it is because until my son gets home, part of me kind of hangs off to the side to keep me calm. I don’t have to justify to anyone the extent of my involvement in effort to change the world. You have no idea what I do and it isn’t important to me to lecture about it. It doesn’t work. People don’t want to be lectured and beat over the head with segments of facts because they don’t trust that things are not taken out of context or not edited. For me that doesn’t work. If they are like you, then they will really appreciate it or they already have the same info. The best leaders are those who lead by example. If you want to lead then learn how to do it, because the only ones that are really listening to you are people who already agree. If you want to get more issues past, you have got to convince more of the masses, and always spouting fear is not going to do it. I would say you sound more fearful than angry. Who wants to follow that. If it makes you feel like Joan of Arc, then that is another issue. You said in an earlier post that you and others worked diligently to stop the de-regulation law regarding media consolidation - then you say it didn’t work. We know why it didn’t work - there was too much money going back and forth and a lot of people wanted some, as well as a million political reasons. I have worked on projects in my city that had been turned down countless times because those seeking action kept trying to make it a moral issue. They were the Ayatollahs of morality - it is put downish so people take it personally and refuse to do anything. That is when I usually get a call, ‘do I have any ideas?’ I don’t kiss anyone’s a**, I just try to work to connect the right dots. I don’t question people’s morality, because they just end up circling their wagons and find a way to make it so you don’t get anything else done. It is self defeating and I am not responsible for their morality - it is their problem. The important thing is achieving the right outcome. My point is - if you are so passionate, and it is obvious that you care deeply about what you believe in, maybe you need better methods that work. Lead by example. Before my husband and I started our business I worked in the entertainment industry. Everyday was a day in the art of dealing with unreasonable situations and getting people impossible things. It was The Devil Wears Prada on steroids. I had to learn ‘salesmanship’. It helped me tremendously. I have not been very civically active in past few years because of my health challenges, I have had to take care of myself and get myself well - my youngest son is only 15 and I want to make sure I am around for him. I DON’T need to read any articles about war being a racket. I live it everyday. When Eisenhower addressed congress and first used the term ‘military industrial complex’ - what was originally written was ‘congressional military industrial complex’. His handlers had him take out the ‘congressional’ because they didn’t want Eisenhower to alienate congress. Here was a former general and current President, who was warning the American public of the dangers of that trio. My son shares with me his experiences in the army, and I have read countless books, so I get it.