The more American History that I read the more I realize that the framers of our form of Government only gave us a template, not a mandate. They provided us with a set of guidelines that would lead us to Democracy but they did not, and could not, provide us with Democracy itself.

For so long, from the Reagan era to the utter debacle of today, I have pined the loss of our Democracy. But now I am begining to see that we really haven't lost Democracy, because we have never had Demcracy, not yet at any rate. What we have is the hope and the framework for creating a Democracy.

Americans have a long way to go before we are capable of creating, and living in, this brilliant form of government. We cannot have Democracy until we overthrow the Military Industrial Complex that now strangles our ideals. Further I am begining to believe that Capitalism itself is antithetical to Freedom and must be replaced before Democracy can live. If nothing else, we must have a strong and people oriented form of government that can control Capitalism, bending it to the good of all people, rather than just the privileged few.

America has a long way to go, and we may not have the time necessary to find our Democracy.