You are right Anne - without a center - very little gets done except argument - and each side takes advantage of that for themselves. Once upon a time if that mob stormed the capitol - they would have taken over - the scene was little different to what occured inthe French revolution. This also shows the power of the entrenched state and its cronies - no militia, singular, plural or multiple is going to take on the state - so all the so-called patriots from the gun lobby on down are either kidding themselves and/or being manipulated.