I share much of your sentiment and feelings if not your optimism.
I sent this email to Mr. Kucinich's campaign manager:
Mike, somehow I am getting duplicate messages from you, and I have Mr.Kucinich's web site bookmarked anyway. So, I think you could remove me from your mailing list now. I would hope that Mr. Kucinich would be our next Pres, but I am not optimistic. I can't figure out what's gotten into the citizenry of this country. The right to dissent isn't an idle peiviledge, it's a responsibillity. In '71 or maybe '72 we stood up (I mean the people of this country, I wasn't there personally. I was protesting in San Francisco) and were shot down (literally) at Kent State. I was shocked that there was no more outcry than there was. Nothing much shocks me any more, except that things haven't improved all that much. We knew then (the 60's)that "they", the corporate machine, had all the guns, all the bombs, all the militaries (not just in this country) and all the politicians in their back pockets. And I'll be go to hell but I can't see any way that that's going to change until this country becomes less greedy and fearful of loosing their jobs, yes and even being shot down in the streets if that's what it takes, and it will and seriously boycotts ALL the businesses and industries that sponsor the wars, produce "goods" that either polute the environment or producton of such causes polution...how do we stop the mind polution? That was a really long sentence to still be incomplete but you'l have to take it from there.

This country knows nothing of austerity and consequently knows nothing about it's needs and until it learns, there is no possibillity that we might harness the great power of boycott. Ghandi's movement that freed India from colonial rule is perhaps the greatest example, but this is not India and people here are much more attached to their porcelain toilets than any "traditional values" that we may have once shared.

If you or Mr. Kucinich or anyone else you know has any other (than boycott) ideas of how to lead a peaceful revolution, please feel free to contact me personally. Just don't send me any more "news letters" and don't tell me about working through "the system"! I'm 63 years old and not THAT gulible.