We only control the names on the desks and the color of the state, and nothing more. In the end, it's all the same. It's not like we can go from pawns to Kings in this so-called game you speak of.
Sorry man, told ya I wasn't going to let anyone off the hook on this one so it's something I gotta do.

Nothing more? You're so wrong there. We put the agendas and values that we want represented into those names on the desk, and colors on the States. Sure there are plenty of sleezeballs who have their own agenda but that can be dealt with. The Christian Coalition figured this out and has the most venimous serpents in Washington (DeLay, Ney, Bush, etc) professing how they love Jesus and pushing their religious agenda through. <--You don't like what they're doing? You want to fix that agenda? Get on a bandwagon and let'm know you're a citizen that doesn't take any shit. You get pumped and others will get pumped too. Leave it to someone else, and you're going to wake up in a nightmare where you don't even have a wilderness to run off to.

It's not like we went from pawns to kings in this game ya say? Fuckin'A believe we went from pawns to kings. We've got the vote and we can tell the ruling class to kiss our sweet ass if they don't like it. First time in history too, our founding fathers set it up so that we're in charge. Many got got their balls blown off and hanged trying to git 'r done, but here we are and we're keeping it. My opinion counts--and your opinion counts. From toothpaste to TV they wanna know what turns you on and deliver the goods. If your opinion is 'this is all fucked up bullshit and I'm throwing in the towel" ..someone is going to seize that opportunity and push their own agendas through, or take it right back to Monarchy domination.

By all means go live in the forest and enjoy it. But every now and then come down out of the hills and cast a good vote. It's what's going to keep them from coming for you to drag ya out of the forest and plowing over your cabin.