OhDear, the only right the average American has today is the right to be a consumer. We're no longer "We the [empowered and sovereign] people" but now "We the exploited...". I'd say we've always been exploited but perhaps the true limitations of the (solely political) American revolution are pronounced in the industrial-post industrial age of increased communications. I'm afraid empowerment and change for the better won't happen until something happens to accelerate thinking; that is, it won't happen until it is too late.