In any case, bummed by Realpolitic, American Style or not...

...the job from here is to start to communicate with everyone, whether current potentially like thinking or supportive friend or all them strangers out in Cyberville who are doing some kind of related effort and who are by the nature of what they are doing available to be communicated with and solicited to join and or support and or collaborate on the big dialogD agenda which is after all a "political call to the wild at heart" to join in an ongoing radical progressive big D Democracy overhaul throughout the political, economic, social, and cultural fabric of the United States.

For me that means spending a good chunk of time overhauling www.dialogdemocracy.org once again and getting it ready to be the Web organizing and fund development tool for all of what it is calling for. Soooo...... let the communicating and organiizing begin in earnest- finally already.

Fighting the despondency of observing the Presidential Advertising and Spin Derby...

... and that don't always come easy. You know it don't come easy. Does it Ringo.

I have to remember that transcending that despondency is crucial to moving forward with "my work"- however that is to ultimately evolve from these humble and humbling early stages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman is a look at one example of someone who just couldn't handle how far in the other direction the country's right wing pendulum swing has taken us since the mistaken assumption of many during the `60's that is was inevitable that we were going to go in an almost opposite direction that `60's popular consciousness would have lead and inspired as we "changed the world."