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15th February 2013 17:06
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Re: What are YOU willing to risk for freedom? The window is closing on our time to act!
The problem is that too many people see themselves as dependent on the current system.
Personally, I like the ideas that Dennis is bringing up, but it's so hard to arouse the masses to the fact that there is a problem - when every stupid little problem is labelled "the crisis of the century."
For the 2014 elections, I've had some of these conversations....people specifically asking who else can we put up because we don't like Congressman "tool for TPTB".
I say, let's figure out some names and organize and get money/volunteers to get behind 'non-tool' candidate. Then I start hearing crickets. People simply don't want to do the work. I know I fall into the trap of hoping that someone else can carry the water on this or that project. My problem is that I don't go to enough meetings to know who's out there and could be a viable alternative. I just haven't cultivated those relationships in recent years. But I know others who do and and should have ideas for who could be a good candidate.
I tend to buy the fact that people are lazy and don't want to do the work. It's really disturbing because this reaction is coming from people in the political class who know how raise money and win elections. We aren't even starting off w/complete political newbies, who have no experience doing anything political.
Sadly, people would rather complain about what they've got than actually do the work to get the new person they actually want in office. Hypocrites!
These days, I ask them to tell me who their candidate is for 2014 or just shut up and stop complaining. Maybe that isn't the right approach, but I'm sick of people complaining, but not willing to do the work to put up an alternative that can win.
If political activists are acting this way, then I don't expect much from the general voting public. Sorry. I want to be more optimistic, but I'm just not.
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16th February 2013 16:54
Link to Post #42