Replace this Administration with.....

The prospect, greeted with hope and barely supressed glee, that this administration might crash and burn is not much solice in the Pepsi or Coke monarchy in which we live here in America. The complacency and arrogance that defines the Republicans is hardly missing amongst the Democrats and certainly not amongst the pseudo alternative Green party.

For instance mention homelessness, the extrodinarily high, world leading, prison population and a host of other subjects that do not seemingly concern the middle class and you get only small a ripple of response and even that only for the political expediency of tarring the perceived political opponent for causing these phenomenaes. The prison rate went fast while Clinton was president and no Republican bashed the poorest members of our society more than Clinton.

If anyone thinks getting a Democratic majority in the house or senate, electing a Democrat to the presidency or even getting fair judges in our courts will make the slightest bit of difference they are as deluded as any right wing zealot. If anyone thinks they will get a less brutal bunch of militants in the White house than the Bush administration remember Kosovo where we triggered genocide with our bombing after years of supporting the terrorist KLA both directly and via allowing them to move heroin through Kosova from Turkey to Italy and, I can only suspect where from there. Almost certainly Europe and the U.S. And look at the robotic John Kerry. Near the forefront of the anti-war movement when it was in vogue and the horrible images were still fresh in his mind he ran as Republican lite in '04 even promising to increase our Iraq occupation force. He supported that war to begin with too, claiming to be duped by the Bush II administration. I wasn't duped by the Bushies flakey sales pitch for the invasion of Iraq and I was not alone in that. Billions of people knew better. Not just the folks in the Mid East who knew that Iraq and Osama's minnions were very much at odds with one another either but people in the United States and all over the planet. Millions marched in the streets to protest the obvious fallacy of the Bush administrations claims and the brutality of their plans.

Real democracy is not a choice between two prospective corporate sponsored dictators, or figureheads. It is a choice amongst 300,000,000 Americans, and if we change the constitution to allow it, 6,000,000,000 human beings on this planet to find the best person for the job of leading us. We need a well educated genius with appropriate qualities for this job and the rest of the governing positions. Not the idiot scion of a corrupt family. We may not deserve better but we need better and the rest of our planet's life does not deserve to be wiped out even though we may.

I don't pretend to have all the answers though picking a president through a lottery would work better than this and perhaps a system of testing and local elections with local candidates leading up to a final, national contest might be a place to start. Civil servants in lower levels of government must take tests and, though they may not be comprehensive enough to insure competency in themselves, they insure that the mail delivery person can read, the policeman can shoot straight and could just as easily insure that the president knows Saddam Hussein from Osama Bin Laden, among other things.