Dear PD: Okay PD you said you are tired of all the fighting on this site. Well, PLEASE check out these 4 URL's before you call it quits as far as the possibility of your voting for Martha Coakley today. KERRY: BROWN SUPPORTERS "WAY OVER THE LINE", REMINISCENT OF '08 PALIN RALLIES (1/19/10)http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/kerry-brown-supporters-way-over-the-line-reminiscent-of-08-palin-rallies.php BROWN HELD TEA PARTY FUNDRAISER BEFORE PROFESSING TO BE UNFAMILIAR WITH TEA PARTY (1/14/10) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/14/scott-brown-held-tea-part_n_423198.html BROWN SUPPORTERS TRYING TO SUPPRESS VOTE BY BULLYING http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/01/18/brown_supporters_trying_to_suppress_vote_by_bullying/ Please, read this!!!! BROWN CAMPAIGN HIRING SCORES OF PAID TEMP WORKERS TO GET OUT THE VOTE, AGENCY SAYS http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/senate-republicans/brown-campaign-hiring-scores-of-paid-temp-workers-to-get-out-vote-agency-says/ We have seen in the past, when push came to shove, and the stakes were as high as they are now, choices had to be made. Please realize that change comes slowly and that going backwards or denying votes to viable candidates by voting for a third party can be disastrous. Kennedy will probably not win this election and Scott Brown is NOT change, nor is he a moderate Republican... anyone who thinks he will buck the now very conservative Republican machine if he makes it to the US Senate and that he will continue to "profess" a moderate stance once in, has eaten paint chips. He will be a "company man", voting just as he has thus far here in Massachusetts, already 96% with the Republican Party. Sorry to break the news to you, but if Martha Coakley loses today, we will be right back where we were with Bush and Cheney. Actually it will most certainly be worse. How many of you are worried about your jobs, your health insurance costs and shrinking coverages, your mortgages or your childrens' well being? I can tell you in all certainty that the uber-leaders of the Republican party are definitely NOT worrying about you or anything about your life!! They are interested in pleasing their stockholders and investors and increasing the monies made and kept over seas in companies based in China and the like. The only time you will come under their scrutiny is when your vote is needed to place Republican lackeys in important government positions, ie., Scott Brown, etc. in order to gain back control and the power of the US government as well as the the House and the Senate. Blaming Pres. Obama and the Democrats for your woes, as TC recently stated on Norfolknet,, "inherited circumstances DO matter, and they are VERY real!" means just as TC said. Have you even tried to support the President and pitch in and help move us forward and out of this mess or are you just waiting for someone else to do the work? PD, please re-consider your choice today when you vote. Be part of the solution not the problem and vote for Martha Coakley as your next senator. She WILL work hard for you but we all must work hard as wll. Get involved in your government, through community activism, calling your officials, helping your neighbors, and serve! Then it will not be about someone else not making it better... it will be about YOU making it better too! Consider this a call to action. We cannot go backwards! FROM WIKIPEDIA: Modern democracy as oligarchy Main article: Iron law of oligarchy Robert Michels believed that any political system eventually evolves into an oligarchy. He called this the "iron law of oligarchy". According to this school of thought, modern democracies should be considered as oligarchies. In these systems... the oligarchic elite impose strict limits on what constitutes an 'acceptable' and 'respectable' political position, and politicians' careers depend heavily on unelected economic and media elites. (edit) Corporate Oligarchy (Corporatocracy) Corporate oligarchy is a form of power, governmental or operational, where such power effectively rests with a small, elite group of inside individuals or influential economic entities or devices, such as banks, commercial entities that act in complicity with, or at the whim of the oligarchy, often with little or no regard for constitutionally protected prerogative PRR Norfolknet.com your community, on-line