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Yeah, especially if you are meaning still working within your political system although we don’t want to.  I can think of several.

You could start with the U.S. must offically apologising for American Aboriginal genocide and than make the necessary changes to the educational system to wash out the colonial propaganda clotting American hearts and minds.  Second, ALL of First Nations-U.S. are to be honoured and without undue delay.  Next, the United States is to offically apologise for chattle slavery, genocide and systematic institutional racial bias.  The U.S. must then return full sovereignty to Puerto Rico, Guam, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines and promise to not try and re-take the island of Cuba.

Following all that there would need to be a restructuring of the entire political system and the acceptance of multiple parties including revamping the voting system without the Electoral College.

Without the former list of suggestions, the latter half is only cosmetic.  Just my opinion.

That’s fine. Got another option?

If my vote counted, Florida 2000 would have been addressed.  It still hasn’t.  I’m still not convinced.  Sorry.

It’s a strange thing because aboriginals DESERVE to be involved and respected.

I know the real history and it makes me sick. I’ve read Zinn. I’ve been on "Indian" reservations and seen the sqaulor. It’s shameful. This land is THEIR land…we ( not me literally…as I’m Irish American and my relatives served as indentured servants ) are robbers. The real criminals are long dead. The modern white is ignorant to the facts…But, they DO benefit from these crimes.

But, again, NOT voting gives them more power …and they thank you for not voting…as they thank the millions of others… who…if they voted, could remove them from power…

It’s that or violent revolution…which is fine with me. Apathy gets people nowhere…

except in the case of the government. It gets them everywhere ….and everything.

How can Aborignals not being involved be a strange thing?  We were never meant to be involved nor were we ever expected to survive past the early 1900’s.  What you should be asking is why this country continues to pursue a national mythology that presupposes the notion that Europeans were by Provindence destined to run roughshod over people who were here thousands of years before the first European ever wore a shoe.  Why is this not on the table.

For every psychologically beaten Indian who can’t see past the U.S. brainwashing of our people, there are scores who want nothing at all to do with the U.S.  I am one of them.  If I walk down a city street its not because I "love" the society that still works to either kill my people off or worse, make us believe the idea that Aboriginal genocide was a good thing for us too.  I walk because I have no choice but to stride across  the pavement that masks my beginings before European invasion.  So no, I do not vote to keep the same government that enacted genocide against my people in place.  And I find it insulting that no-Natives are still too caught up in their own lies to see or care about where we are coming from.

I disagree with the idea that "NOT VOTING" changes anything or helps in any way. What’s needed is MORE voting and a wider variety of people to vote for…which , I think, would happen due to more voting.

That’s the one thing they bet on…public apathy and protest types not voting. This guy is doing their job for them

It is a strange thing that native Americans aren’t part of the big picture. not voting isn’t going to make it any better.