When I was in college majoring in Political Science during the Reagan years, one of my professors and I had a lengthy conversation about "privatization". We both agreed that it was coming and the results would not be desirable.
Over 10 years ago, I told my neo-con brother that nation-states were irrelevant. "Of course, nations are important!" He said to me when he finished laughing.
Read this excellent conversation between John Cusak and Naomi Klein.
Patriotism is bullshit and wars only suit those in power. Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush have destroyed our country. Voting for Hillary is just more of the same. If we want to survive, we need a real agent of change. If we want an America we can be proud of, we need to act now.
Update: Forgive me for leaving Al Gore off the list. He would be my personal choice, however, I just heard his office say that he would not run for President. I have to take him at his word.
Update 2: The results of this poll were very surprising. At this point, Kucinich is tied with Obama for second and Dodd is only one vote behind Hillary. I know that the population for this poll is limited to those that had a chance to see the diary for the hour it appeared on the sidebar. But I never would have thought Kucinich and Dodd would have been more than a blip. I really wish the media would take the "second and third tier" more seriously and cover more of there ideas. Instead of preselecting our nominee.