http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/opinion/09rich.html The problem is not the sense that the game is rigged, but that Americans are waiting for our institutions to give us power. This is true of republicans and democrats alike. And it assumes something akin to fascism, where all the power is vested in the institutions of state, and doled out to people, often on a patronage basis. The reality is that there is no institution to give us power. We all have that power. The question is whether we'll each learn to exercise it - and use it well.