>"When the public doesn't agree with you, or just doesn't care that much about your issue, it doesn't mean they are lazy uninformed idiots. That is a sophomoric way of looking at the world, it's not true, and it's not useful to think that way."
Would you like to point out where I made such an idiotic claim? I didn't mean or intent to imply that the only reason people don't agree with me is because they don't know. My point was simply that a lot of people are ignorant. What's not useful is this sort of straw-man pedantry.
As for those who agree but don't care: it's hard to blame them. I signed petitions, I sent letters to my elected representatives. I tried to attend a protest, but it was so pathetic that I left. I try, but there's a sense of futility to it all.
I'm very open to suggestions on how we can have a greater impact.
Were they stuffed with cash? Nothing talks like campaign donations.
All the vote promises in the world don't mean squat if they can't print enough flyers so that Joe Blow will recognize their name when they step into the booth.
Of course, no politician is going to care about donations on the level that your average middle-class American can afford to give. Maybe crowd-fund a large sum for donation whose receipt is contingent upon an agreement to vote a certain way on certain issues, with highly public and embarrassing repercussions if they do not?
Would you like to point out where I made such an idiotic claim? I didn't mean or intent to imply that the only reason people don't agree with me is because they don't know. My point was simply that a lot of people are ignorant. What's not useful is this sort of straw-man pedantry.
As for those who agree but don't care: it's hard to blame them. I signed petitions, I sent letters to my elected representatives. I tried to attend a protest, but it was so pathetic that I left. I try, but there's a sense of futility to it all.
I'm very open to suggestions on how we can have a greater impact.