Jaguardi hits the nail on the head. How do we embrace a Peace Department in a war government? How would a peace department intervene in the Israel-Lebanon conflict when the State Department and the Department of Defense were both arming Israel, encouraging it to "defend itself," and shifting from decades of US policy and openly siding with Israel?

Both of America's entrenched parties have failed the citizenry. Instead of being our servant, our federal government is fast becoming a massive bureaucratic behemoth seeking more and more ways to dominate us. Governments only grow bigger: and like business expansions, they demand new areas of growth to justify their expansion and to feed their machine. America is teetering on the brink of economic and social collapse, enabled not just by the deliberate avoidance of core issues by the platforms of both major political parties, but because the American people have been willing to settle for those two parties and what they've offerred. Now our political system has warped out of recognoition, with a runaway executive branch unhindered by the judiciary or legislative branches, and all politicians seeking power via the votes of the citizenry, but while being on the payroll of corporations and special interest groups. In sum, our government is "out of balance" in two vital areas -- the separation of powers, and because politicians view Americans as consumers to market toward, not humans to serve.

The only question remaining is whether the revolution which will be precipitated by the wealth divide created by this situation will be by ballot box (wherein Americans move radically and strongly toward a new political party, i.e. a Perot), or by anarchic implosion. The latter is the most likely outcome, if only because the myriad problems facing America have been compounded over recent decades, and most especially over the last five years, so that by the time Americans truly awaken to their plight, the proverbial walls will be falling around them.

It is to be hoped that people like you Jaguardi will educate others and create an impetus toward the political revolution which might offer Americans a viable third-party choice. In the alternative, it is people like you who will contribute to a reclamation of our political heritage and Constitutional structure from the chaotic aftermath.

May God richly bless you.

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