Comments on: Contribute What You Have http://www.pagunblog.com/2009/12/21/contribute-what-you-have/ The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State ... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:10:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bitter http://www.pagunblog.com/2009/12/21/contribute-what-you-have/#comment-54994 Bitter Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:43:21 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=15142#comment-54994 Voting would have worked if people showed up. There were many right-of-center voters who simply stayed home. If you know even one of those people, then these efforts I'm suggesting are an effort to help reach them and get them to show up next November. As for calling reps, that does work to a degree. Remember when healthcare was going to include a full public option & be done by August recess? Yeah... It's not a perfect result, but we've clearly thrown a wrench into things. Anger is a motivator, so I don't want to say that people shouldn't be angry at all. However, that anger needs to be funneled into something productive. Joining a Facebook group or posting an angry thread on a forum doesn't cut it. Voting would have worked if people showed up. There were many right-of-center voters who simply stayed home. If you know even one of those people, then these efforts I’m suggesting are an effort to help reach them and get them to show up next November.

As for calling reps, that does work to a degree. Remember when healthcare was going to include a full public option & be done by August recess? Yeah… It’s not a perfect result, but we’ve clearly thrown a wrench into things.

Anger is a motivator, so I don’t want to say that people shouldn’t be angry at all. However, that anger needs to be funneled into something productive. Joining a Facebook group or posting an angry thread on a forum doesn’t cut it.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.pagunblog.com/2009/12/21/contribute-what-you-have/#comment-54993 Jeff Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:37:56 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=15142#comment-54993 People are angry because the traditional avenues of "doing something", which include calling representatives, voting, etc don't seem to work. Don't get mad, get even. There are great ways to fight back to what Big Government is doing. A huge blow fell when Climategate hit. Whoever that hacker was, he struck a huge win against big government everywhere in the world. Information keeps getting freer and freer with internet proliferation. They can have their short lived health care victories. Freedom cannot be contained. People are angry because the traditional avenues of “doing something”, which include calling representatives, voting, etc don’t seem to work.
Don’t get mad, get even.
There are great ways to fight back to what Big Government is doing. A huge blow fell when Climategate hit. Whoever that hacker was, he struck a huge win against big government everywhere in the world. Information keeps getting freer and freer with internet proliferation.
They can have their short lived health care victories. Freedom cannot be contained.

]]> By: maddmedic http://www.pagunblog.com/2009/12/21/contribute-what-you-have/#comment-54992 maddmedic Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:21:25 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=15142#comment-54992 I agree with you on the "doing" something! To many bitch and then sit. Get involved at your local level, become "know"' by your elected officials. Or as one calls me a "pain". Email, call. Go to caucuses, become a delegate. Starts with us!! And as a sidenote have been lurking and reading this blog for a while now. Good work! And your in my blogroll!!! I agree with you on the “doing” something! To many bitch and then sit. Get involved at your local level, become “know”‘ by your elected officials. Or as one calls me a “pain”. Email, call. Go to caucuses, become a delegate. Starts with us!! And as a sidenote have been lurking and reading this blog for a while now. Good work! And your in my blogroll!!!

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