The American voter is under attack by entities seeking to confuse, mislead, and misinform him or her for their own profit and power. Isolated from reasonable or

The American voter is under attack by entities seeking to confuse, mislead, and misinform him or her for their own profit and power. Isolated from reasonable or normative thought, uneducated in the mechanisms attacking their thought, and indoctrinated in these lies as cultural, social, and even patriotic standards to be upheld and identified with, we can hardly be expected to break this crushing mold and make choices with clarity and rational thinking. The first step, when one is able to temporarily rise above this suffocating morass, is to cry out that it must be torn down. Reform the first-past-the-post voting systems that generate and enforce an extremist 2-party system, stop powerful and wealthy entities from buying their own rules through lobbying and regulatory capture, adapt rules that were written without a concept for what they would mean in a world with broadcasting and instant copying of information, recognize that harmful externalities are not corrected by an irrational purely capitalistic economy...the list of injustices is long and reasonably obvious, from the outside. Tragically, though, these goals are next to impossible to achieve without a critical mass that the systems are actively repressing.