The election wars are over and, presumably, the Republican Party has won. The party and the privileged people of wealth it represents have nothing but contempt for those Americans who must labor to exist. They are cruel and persistent people who will continue to chip away at the safety nets FDR and his "New Deal" created to protect working Americans from their abuses. It's obvious they conduct class warfare against working families.

The Democrats, the Greens, and all the so-called "independent progressives and liberals" now ponder the direction to take for the 2006 and 2008 elections. Why the indecisiveness? The path to be taken should be clear to all.

The Democratic party, as many remember it, is long dead, a mere shell of what it once was. Any attempt to reinvigorate it would be a total waste of effort and money, for it is filled with men lacking the ideals and convictions necessary to sway voters and win elections: typical professional politicians who are nothing more than opportunists looking to their own welfare.

It leaves only the Green party with the organization and potential to rally the forces necessary to beat the Republicans and those they represent. Shouldn't the goal of the Greens be to give the American masses stronger reasons for voting Green?

Shouldn't the party publicly declare that as the Republicans have been openly waging class warfare, it will fight the battle on behalf of common Americans and drive Republicans and their greedy masters from the halls of Government?

Shouldn't the party declare it is concerned with the dignity of human life; the party committed to providing all Americans free education throughout life; the party committed to providing reasonably priced healthcare for all Americans; the party committed to stop the deterioration, destruction, and pollution of the planet's life-nourishing natural resources; the party committed to eliminating poverty, discrimination, and injustice within the republic?

Shouldn't it declare itself the party of Americans who must struggle to provide sustenance for their families; of Americans who, historically have been oppressed and mistreated because their skins are not white; of female Americans who traditionally have been considered inferior to males; of all Americans—male and female—who choose life-styles with which they are comfortable, 'though different than most others; of Americans whose religions are different than the mainstream religions of the republic; of Americans who understand the only way to eliminate small, self-interest groups from grasping the nation's economic and political power is for all to participate in the maintenance of government—when required?

The dilemma common Americans face today is unique, never before faced by an Earth society. Their very own privileged classes, who now possess wealth and power greater than any ancient monarch, and who now arrogantly strive for empire and rule of planet Earth , deliberately destroy the cohesiveness and moral strength of the republic.

Their strategy of conquest has been successful in South Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, and is now being utilized in Iraq. This has included bombing out of existence sources of nourishment and employment from target undeveloped countries, killing uncounted thousands of adult civilians, making it easier to indoctrinate the younger generations with the benefits of capitalism.

But such action is clearly a crime against humanity, as heinous as the Nazi assault on Europe's Jewish population. The only reason common Americans haven't risen up in anger and punished their leaders is the American press has long since abandoned its function of enlightening the people to the truth, and consequently, too many Americans are ignorant of the truth.

The core problem is that common Americans must first recognize and acknowledge it's the American System, itself, that nourishes this arrogance by allowing men to accumulate such unhealthy amounts of wealth and power. It's the American System that gives some men the power to start wars few Americans believe necessary and fewer want to fight.

It's the American System that allows men to steal from state and national treasuries, bankrupting the nation and mortgaging your children's and grandchildren's futures.

It's the American System that allows wealthy and powerful citizens to move corporate jobs overseas to take advantage of poorer people, plunging millions of Americans below the poverty line while creating larger profits for themselves. It's the American System that denies affordable health insurance to millions of citizens and approves the pharmaceutical industry's outrageous overpricing of essential medications. It's the American System that allows some men to make laws imposing their prejudices and superstitions upon others.

If you want a fairer, more secure future for yourselves and your children than the one American political and economic rulers have planned for you, it's the American System that must be changed, and it must be changed quickly before the republic slides into a condition more oppressive than the conditions from which it evolved. This means changing the current representative democracy to a direct democracy.

Throughout the planet, common people are rising up demanding participation in government's decision-making. Direct Democracy groups form everywhere.

I suggest the Green's constitution not only advocate its representation of everything declared above, but also that it would be an appropriate and effective strategy for the party to ride the wave of change by altering its name to the "Direct Democracy party of the United States."