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You're only vote is to not vote at all if they are all
controlled by the same puppet master.
The predators may eat each other.

--- zoinky420 <zoinky420@...> wrote:

> --- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "korgpolyex800"
> <korgpolyex800@...> 
> wrote:
> >
> >> 
> > While in the US, did you ever write or phone your
> congressman?
> > 
> > The reason I ask is because absolutely every
> single person that I've
> > spoken to that has held similar sentiments as you
> hold has NEVER
> > called or written their congressman. It's all
> whining, complaining and
> > pontificating repeating the current liberal
> talking points but NEVER
> > active involvement in the political process.
> Someone once said,
> > Democracy is not a spectator sport.
> >
> 
> Well since we're already off topic!...
> 
> I think that writing your congressman or other
> elected-official is a 
> waste of time, unless you're writing a letter
> expousing a position your 
> recipient already agrees with, in which case he or
> she may send copies 
> of the letter to the media as means to demonstrate
> his or her support 
> among the voters.  Congressmen and other elected
> officials do not sit 
> around in their offices wondering what position they
> should support, 
> just waiting for someone to write them a letter
> telling them what to 
> do.  They come to politics heavy with ideology and
> they work in 
> politics for the purpose of advancing that ideology.
>  If it's really 
> important to you to have some influence in govt,
> you'd be far more 
> influential getting a position as a paid advisor to
> a politician than 
> you would writing a jillion letters. Or run in an
> election yourself, 
> and take the piss out of your competition in
> debates.  Even becoming a 
> journalist, who can slant and bias articles the way
> you want, would be 
> more effective than sending a letter to a politician
> to be filed in the 
> circular filing cabinet. 
> 
> Democracy is probably the best system available, but
> that does not mean 
> it's a great system.  By its very nature it must
> pander to the lowest 
> common denominator (watching political tv
> commercials around election 
> time in democratic countries demonstrates that
> much), and I think that 
> recognizing that is of chief importance to those who
> seek to protect 
> and bolster democracy.  Holding it up as a gold
> standard that can do no 
> wrong and must be forced upon every non-democractic
> population in the 
> world in order to save them from dictatorial
> boogeymen only serves to 
> weaken democracy's usefulness and popularity.  Don't
> get me wrong, I 
> supported both of the recent middle-east wars, until
> they were won and 
> became occupations with bringing wonderous democracy
> to the defeated 
> used as an excuse to keep pushing them around ad
> infinitum...
> 
> 



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