What is this, the 5th grade? This is about the lamest thing anyone has ever posted to me. I’ll bet even you, with your unique rhetorical gifts, can’t top it.
I would remind people of what John Mitchell said re; the then incomeing Nixon administration. “Don’t listen to what we say, watch what we do.” Rhetoric, even some of the batshit boob-bait rhetoric tossed out by trump is one thing, but it is by their action we will know their intentions.
Let’s see, you post the same dribble in ad nauseam to this echo chamber. Claiming to fight ignorance. Do you actually believe if 100 more dopers went out and voted it would have made a difference?
If you are wanting change, then you’re in the wrong place. Ever heard of preaching to the choir? There are no new converts to be had here.
I would encourage you to get more involved in a grass roots campaign in the rural parts of Texas, where people tended to not vote the same way you did.
It’s neither proselytization nor dribble, but self-expression. And even like-minded people can talk to and inform each other. If you don’t like my posts, don’t read them. BTW, all the counties from Austin southward went for Hillary.
But now I’m curious. What made you angry enough to lash out gratuitously at me? In your real life, my status is less significant than a fly speck. And yet you took the time to post that? <scratches head>
I’ll tell you what I’ve done. The Sunday after the election we had an impromptu meeting of a bunch of local people from a FB group. Over a hundred and twenty people showed up. With, like, four days notice. On a rainy Sunday afternoon.
I volunteered for the steering committee and when that met I bitched enough about the lists of action items I’ve been seeing that have so many low value items on them that I volunteered myself to be communications coordinator. Since then I’ve been sending out weekly well cited curated lists of actions to take that include, say, the phone numbers and a script for your senators, so there’s no excuse not to pick up the phone right this second and do it. When our state legislature starts up again I’ll add local items as well that people won’t get from the bigger lists.
I’ve called my members of Congress more in the past few weeks than I have in the previous 36 years of my life. Next month I’m marching on Washington. The next time Lindsey Graham, Tim Scott, or Jim Clyburn are in town I’m going to be there, and I’m not going to be alone.
That’s what I’m doing. I will fight them until hell freezes over and then I will fight on the ice.
You can do it too! You don’t have to open your big fat mouth in a meeting; send your friends on Facebook or wherever good, evidence-grounded things to do. Include all the information they need because you know how lazy they are. Urge them to stop sharing crap from shitty sites like Being Liberal and Occupy Democrats; sent real in depth articles instead. Select charities fighting for what you believe in, vet them yourself, and share the information you learned.
Only takes five minutes to call your congresscritters. You can go to your car on your lunch break and do it every day if you like. It’s their job to listen to you.
You know his “plan” to reduce the volume of federal regulations is to repeal two for every new one that is adopted, right? That’s not a plan. It’s not governing. It’s a joke.
For those Democrats/liberals asking the question, “What can we do?” here are some suggestions. Source.
No, this is not a call to become constipated obstructionists like Congress has been the last eight years. There are nine points (bold is in the original text):
