form. I love your link and am going for a refresher course. The key question remains, "How can we act to require our governments to become more moral (ie: congruent)? Apr 16 2012: we have five questions, one in the title, another four in the text. to the top question: no. we appoint the government. we don't any discussion with it. we should be able to simply tell them what to do. they don't have a say. 1. in the most general terms, anything that people let them to do. if most people are convinced that bombing iraq is an acceptable idea, they can do that. there is nothing any more moral or fundamental than this. 2. not sure, and you will observe within months how the current president gets reelected. 3. same as 1. 4. vote according to your principles. never vote to someone who severely violated them. teach others about the issues. don't let them get away with it. Apr 16 2012: Krisztian, In your answer you say that we should be able to simply tell the government what to do...In theory, I think you are correct in that assessment. In practice, the problem is that in the USA all of our "mainstream" media is owned or controlled by the very corporations who have bought our government "representatives" through campaign contributions, and most if not all so-called "news" is actually spin-control by those corporations. The other problem in practice is that the US has a little thing called