Not so impossible as all that. There are ways. And yes, I try to use those options as I can. Part of that exercise is this blog, encouraging others to consider these issues, to get angry enough about the things I see as flawed to have a following.
Obviously, I can't know I succeed, but for now, it is what I do. And yes I am. There are other options for the polls than we've been using thus far. Difficult to implement but no reason we cannot at least try.
The general populace has a duty to each other to protect those minority rights the same as we aledge the government to have right now.
Yes it was and that's what's worrying me here. If the government demonstrates that it can do this in a reasonable way with no one being harmed or taken in, or farmed out as free labor? I may reconsider.