I appreciate your post. You have given me a list to consult that is generally outside of the mainstream media.

It is understood this does not represent your "A" list, but scanning reveals a lot of groups that are important to keeping a degree of sanity in public affairs.

There are times when I wish I could view the world with your absolute certainty of not only how things are but how they should be.

How comfortable it is to have a corporatist certainty that saves having to examine and experience the discomfort of searching for the best possible solution.

Democracy is the process of searching, trying and praying you were right. It is an ongoing process and an experiment in how a society should be organized.

The nature of this process is an nagging uncertainty.

The virtue of this uncertainty is that it is not a comfortable idea, but then a citizen-based democracy is built upon participation, which is the very expression of a permanent discomfort.

The corporatist system depends upon the citizens desire for inner comfort. Balance in a democratic system is dependent upon our recognition of reality, which is the acceptance of a permanent psychic discomfort---the acceptance of this disomfort is the acceptance of consciousness.

There are many who have served this country who support any number of the groups you have on your list. If you truly find them as less American than yourself, you have missed what this country is all about--and that is truly sad.