For a week now Iranians have been very upset because their votes did not count in their election of a President.  As a result Iranians have been conducting almost non-stop massive protests, accepting perhaps dozens of deaths for over zealous police/militias.  The Supreme Ruler of Iran demanded they stop and go home, or face increasingly severe consequences.  The protests went on.  All of this, when it is very possible that a majority of Iranians actually did vote for the declared winner there.

For about 2 months  now Americans have been making it clear to their elected representatives that they want, at the very minimum, a new health care system that includes a government run insurance program competing with private insurance companies.  The most recent polling shows 72% of Americans want this, and even Republicans favor it with 50% approval.  The US Senate says shut up, go home, and allow them to pay back their insurance/pharmaceutical/AMA backers with a health care plan that primarily features a requirement that all Americans must buy insurance from the private insurance companies, no matter what it costs.

As a result, Americans en mass are .... watching TV.

We are a nation of sheep,  a nation that to get what we want, even with 72% of us agreeing on what we want, there is nothing we will do.  Some of us will "do our part" by painlessly, and without having to spend any time, sign an on-line petition.  But, demonstrate?  Do mass protest marches?  Conduct civil disobedience drills? Sorry, there is this great "Reality TV" show I don't want to miss tonight.

Does anyone know how to wake us up and force us to accept responsibility for getting what we want?