What do you want?

)Wow. That's something to think about. Marylanders are at least uncomfortable and unhappy with the ever increasing gap between rich and poor, the degradation of our environment and the health of our children, the erosion of our rights, and the the weakening of our international credibility. And we are certainly nervous about the growing strength of multinational corporations in our economies and politics -- politicians of both major parties are taking their money and doing their bidding.Obviously the independent parties speak to our discontent with how things are. The real question isn't whether they have ideas and energy to make our state and our nation better. The question many of us ask ourselves is whether they can someday win enough power to actually change things. The writer of that phrase asks us to imagine that change could happen. Would you want it to?

Obviously the independent parties speak to our discontent with how things are. The real question isn't whether they have ideas and energy to make our state and our nation better. The question many of us ask ourselves is whether they can someday win enough power to actually change things. The writer of that phrase asks us to imagine that change could happen.

Would you want it to?

Senate Race Entrants

was featured in a Baltimore City Paper article talking about a potential independent-unity run. While independents are often marginalized in American politics, the presence of a viable Republican candidate and the development of a unified independent effort that could include Libertarians, Greens, and the state Populist Party, among others, means that we might have an interesting race in Maryland.