This plea for Direct Democracy originally was to have been structured around the theme of equal rights for women, for it's a truth that female equality with males in the patriarchal U.S. will never become a reality. Not in your lifetime. Not while you live in a hierarchical patriarchy governed by a constitution written by privileged, white males to favor privileged, white males.

Our most knowledgeable scientists have claimed, if human pollution of the atmosphere is not substantially reduced immediately, global warming will reach a point of no return within ten years and the threat to all Earth life will become a bitter reality. Since that warning these scientists have made a distressing discovery. Global warming is melting the permafrost—soil that is permanently frozen in the Arctic and Antarctic—and not only releasing trapped carbon monoxide into the atmosphere, but also methane gas that has been trapped in the frozen soil for thousands of years.

Methane, it is claimed, is even more efficient than carbon dioxide in trapping heat inside the Earth's atmosphere. This means as global warming quickens the melting of permafrost and increases the release of methane gas, the point of no return will happen sooner than originally predicted.

During the past ten years, China and other developing countries have modernized and industrialized, now offering their citizens some of the goodies westerners have enjoyed for decades. This translates into heavier competition for oil, increased conflicts for sources of oil—and eventual war! Disastrouos war! Nuclear war! If you didn't know, it is reported that as many as 40 countries now have nuclear capabilities. Under current systems of rule and governance peaceful solutions to this problem is unimaginable.

Humanity's survival is now dependent upon drastic changes in human behavior. This can happen in the U.S only by removing political power from greedy, private interests that control the political and economic systems, and by changing the American System to one in which individuals and private self-interest groups cannot gain control. The only political system with the potential to do that, and the only one possessing the potential to create a fairer more equitable world in which females are truly equal and truly free is "Direct Democracy" also called "participatory democracy".

DD happens to be the political system feared most by elites of every culture, past and present, for it holds the potential to drastically change their lifestyles. DD is the political system deliberately rejected by the creators of the U.S. constitution. It is the system dissatisfied Americans of the Peoples Party of 1892 and 1896 intended to ask Americans to install should they have won those two elections. It is the political system suggested by the angry young Americans, frustrated by the inequities of the U.S., who wrote the Port Huron Manifesto of 1962—a document all Americans should read.

America's economic rulers and their political puppets have proven they will make no changes reducing their profits or power. Are you going to passively sit and watch the possible horrors and hardships inflicted upon your loved ones by global warming and unnecessary wars when you and all other American women, together, hold the power to change such a future? I beseech you as an intelligent person to try and understand that there is an alternative for a better and fairer society. There is hope for a peaceful and safer world, a world that our elite rulers don't want, a world they fear, for such a world would deprive them of being elite.