Better learn to count, Bart, one of the more important tools of politics.

More people vote than stay home on election day, at least in the Presidential years. And those who stay home run the gamut of left to center to right, just like those who vote. It's skewered a little to the left, but not by much.

So by saying elections are dead and don't matter, your strategy for revolution is based on ignoring the views of at least half the adult population.

That's like trying to win a football game by ignoring abilities of half of your team, and half of the opposing team as well. Not very effective, I'd say.

Now I'd agree that we live in a polyarchy --rule by a few colluding and contending capitalist elites -- not a democracy. We've got something like one dollar, one vote, rather than one person, one vote.

But I'm of the opinion that people adopt revolutionary means mainly when they've exhausted the reformist possibilities and have their backs to the wall. They don't do it because you or I make a revolutionary speech, even at a big demonstration or strike; they do it because they can't live in the old way and the current rulers can't rule in the old way.

If you think that's where things are at, make your case.

If you think you can make revolution with just a minority, while a majority still believes reforms are possible, again, make you case.

Otherwise, you can just own up to the fact that it doesn't matter to you what most folks think -- which makes you something of an elitist too, even if it's of a left anarchist variety.