Now and then, the corruption in Congress gets to be too much, and American voters get rid of a lot of it. It builds back up, over the years, creating another need to clean house.

I think we're seeing that tonight, which is a big deal for me. My gig at Craigslist is full time customer service, a lot of which is about fighting small scale crime, petty harassment, scams, stuff like bait and switch. Like everyone else, I'm frustrated and feel kinda helpless in the face of massive corruption.

What's different about this election is the role of the 'net. People are connecting online to work together to defeat bad guys. My experience tells me that this is sustainable, in a way that'll break the cycles of corruption and house cleaning.

The Romans, during the last decades of the Republic faced tremendous corruption, couldn't fix it ... but I think we can.