I am generally lukewarm toward Chris Matthews. But I must give him credit for putting a question to a broader audience than I could ever hope to reach regarding something I have felt strongly about for quite some time: where are the people in the streets? He was referring primarily to the current health care debate.
But we could add to this particular issue that we are experiencing the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, with its attendant evaporation of savings, massive job losses, and foreclosures---not to mention the unequally shared burden of two wars.
Forty years ago, using only phone trees, it was possible in certain communities to mobilize a thousand or more people within a few hours to demonstrate against the latest outrage committed by our government in Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia.
Have we become so fat, dumb and lazy that we can’t mobilize demonstrations regarding issues about which so many feel so strongly? Have we become so voyeuristically detached that we are willing only to praise at a safe distance the uprising in Iran?
There must be some way to use this site so that like minded people, perhaps self-organizing based on zip codes, to get together so that if we don't like the news we can get out there make some of our own.