British Officials Portrayed Reagan as a “Bozo”

[merrily]

48. You're welcome.

It's funny because I am usually the one being accused of being the wet blanket.

I do have hope and I do think we can impact our destinies. But, not by using the means most want to use, like signing internet petitions or calling Congress or their state houses. That doesn't harm, unless one assumes that, by so doing, they've "made their voice heard" to anyone who gives a rat's pellet and need not think or do further.

When I say that, everyone "hears" it as giving up, but I am really saying we have to do other things, foremost being getting more creative in our thinking. Organizing and participating in mass boycotts, is one example of a perfectly legal tactic. So are demonstrations that are bigger, more persistent, and better planned and publicized than we've been managing of late. (TOS require me not to urge acts that are not perfectly legal, so I won't, bu thinking more creatively about cause that we create and effect on the PTB is key.)

I also think a fairer system in terms of more than two parties having a realistic chance of winning is key to making people vote. Getting rid of the filibuster would help, too and more accountability to the public in general. I think people have little interest in toggling back and forth between Democrat and Republican, only to have both of them blame the other and/or the Supreme Court for everything.


The answer(s) is out there. We just don't, as a rule, look really hard or long or collectively. They have think tanks. We don't.

Now, I'll stop because when I make a post like this, the first poster who replies to me gets banned. It's happened at least three times that I know of.