Sunday, September 27, 2009
Letters don't buy votes.
Polls show that most Americans favor a public option for health care. And that they'd even support a single-payer system. But we most likely won't get it. Because most Americans don't have political clout. They merely write to their congressmen. Corporations and lobbyists know better. Letters don't buy votes. Money does. --Jim Broede
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You merely write this blog. You suppose that helps any?
My blog helps me. I get satisfaction from it. That's all I know for sure. Good enough for me. I'm not here to sway the world. Or you. Or anyone. I like writing it. I have influence over a relatively very small number of people. Mostly close friends and immediate acquaintances. I like to affect people close to me in nice ways. But if others stumble across my blog and become annoyed, so be it. That's their choice. I believe in freedom of choice. They can come and go as they please. Accept or reject what I have to say. Or not even give a damn one way or another. --Jim Broede
If you really want to know what would help, it's a full-scale revolution. People taking to the streets. And pushing down the barricades. And staying out on the streets in every city and village and hamlet until the desired change is enacted. Letters and other written words won't do the trick. Too easy to ignore. To just file away in the wastebasket. --Jim
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