| What to do?
I'm no sage, but my gut feeling is that the only option available to us anymore is organizing and voting. Start locally, and then use the web to organize others nationwide and then present yourself as a large number of voters with a similar goal. Maybe lobbying too. If the AARP and the NRA can hold so much power over the congress maybe WE can too.
I know it would start small and take a long time but I honestly believe there are few other options.
The biggest hurdle is the apathetic sheep which unfortunately make up the bulk of the population. To use the Pat Tillman outrage as an example, the news broke, most of america now knows it was friendly fire and the government lied about it over and over again. Whjere is the groundswell of anger and outrage? Where is the disgust that the military used this mans death to their advantage?
It ain't there and will probably never be there. This is why a coordinated group of voters is necessary. One to keep the memory of the long string of lies alive after the sheep have forgotten and two, to show TPTB they are not making a BIG group of voters happey and they are NOT easily swayed or lied to.
Take a forum like Volconvo, for instance. Most of us are pretty much in two camps, but we all have our INDIVIDUAL opinions and our own take on things regardless of liberal or conservative labeling. Now take either side and form them ALL into a single group, a big group speaking with ONE voice. What you have is one side with the aformentioned loose association and the other side with ONE idea who act as one on a specific situation. Translate that to society and you can see which is the winner.
Actually this response was to both Lou and saif, as the question of what to do was raised twice. (I'm lazy like that) :) |