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Boojatta

(12,231 posts)

6. OPTION 2 motivates me to ask a question.

Reply to Skinner (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 10:59 AM

Mar 2012

How general are the issues that you care about? (I mean "you" as in the participant in your hypothetical dialog.)

Within a given political ideology, there might be a variety of possible strategies for helping people who are represented by a given politician. The more specific and concrete the problem is, the more likely that the problem can be solved.