This classic Lincoln quotation provides prophetic insight into one cause for the current frustration in America — the fruitless search for a universal solution.

In our unending, primal need to label and categorize things, we’ve attempted to cram the social and economic opinions of all 360 Million diverse Americans into a few, rather narrow political definitions — Republican, Democrat and “Outside the Mainstream.”

  

In these forums, we hope to find common ground on important issues facing all Americans without the distraction of partisanship, bigotry, and extremism.  These are political parties, not religions, though many people treat them that way.

Only by bypassing the flaming, bickering and name-calling often present in this type of forum, however, will we be able to identify a single issue, onto which we can then unleash the power of the 

We are the  and we are awake, aware, able, angry and now,
we’re active!