Re: Note to QC & PG

["Arkain" <rwking@no.usa.spam.net>]

Thank you for making my point so eloquently. Being as blunt as I am often
steals my ability think and express in such a detailed fashion.

Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote in message
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> In November, only about half of all who are eligible to vote will vote. In
off
> year elections, it is far lower. In short, those who run our country are
chosen
> by, at most, 25% of those 18 years old and older who have the right to
vote. The
> "joke" is that so few of us care, care enough to register to vote, care
enough
> to vote and even fewer care enough to study the issues and the candidates
to
> make intelligent decisions about how to vote. The people who make and
enforce
> our laws do respond when there is pressure, but the pressure has to be
large
> enough, and it has to threaten the only thing that matters to most
politicians -
> reelection. Want to make an impression? Write a letter, in long hand, if
> legible, and that tells the politician that there are people out there who
care,
> for your letter represents many, many people who are silent. Now, get five
or
> ten friends in the same political unit to write letters expressing the
same
> ideas, but in different words (preprinted or canned letters get file
13ed.) You
> have influenced one congressman/woman. 235 to go. And 51 senators. Can you
get
> people to do the same elsewhere? Can you get newspapers to write columns,
like
> technology columns, on this issue? Letters to the editor in the paper?
Then, and
> only then might you get a change made. But, since most people don't care,
it
> isn't likely to happen, so don't hold your breath.
>
> And that is the sad joke.
>
> Roy