re: "Your suggested resistence alternatives in the meantime?"
Number one? You don't vote for someone who doesn't adequately represent your values just because you hate the other guy even more. That's picking Stalin over Hitler - (which my surviving aunt actually says she would have done. "Because Hitler killed my brother" - which isn't even literally true. He went down in a sub bombed by a Japanese pilot somewhere off of Guam. But I digress.)
Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months