There was a time when I would send off an email of protest or encouragement to a politician or even apply signature to a variety of worthwhile petitions, but my evolution of illumination has taken me to a different stage for the time being.

In the true beginning for me, which was five or six years ago, as the light finally came on, I became extremely paranoid.  Nothing made any sense.  Up until then all events seemed unique and isolated.  The political process seemed free and open as…