Hi Kossacks!
I finally get up off my gluteus maximus and decided that I need professional help.
My office is literally to the left and the other guy's office is literally to the right.
He comes in sometimes (whenever the Ministry of Truth announces that we have yet again
achieved a marvelous victory in our war against EastHem) and says to me, "So tell me, if you
know so much, what would you have us do different?"
If you think you could answer this question, please help...
(or at the very least - try your luck with my first poll)
His point is that 'those people only understand one
thing - the point of a gun - there's no other way to talk to them.
A simple protestation on my part - well perhaps I don't know what the right thing to do is - but
I recognize the wrong thing when I see it - does not go over well (well not at all - to tell the truth).
I read a lot of articles on Daily Kos but I still don't know how to answer him.
I guess I'm just not smart enough. But I thought perhaps together we all are smart enough...
I've tried:
I) We should help them build up their society/infrastructure/culture.
II) We should not sacrifice liberty for security as we shall lose both.
III) We'll help ourselves better by becoming energy independent than by 'securing' the oil fields.
But none of that gets through.
He likes to hear:
a) Lets bomb them back to the stone age.
b) If you're not with us, you're against us.
c) I haven't done anything wrong, I have nothing to be afraid of.
This site is all about taking politics into our own hands,
I want to know how to take policy into our own hands.
I'd like to hear from you about simple specific things that most people
(and by that I mean most Americans) could understand and could perhaps
work out for themselves that we really should do it and it would make a difference.
For example:
We should have a Secretary of Renewable Energy
We should increase CAFE standards
Not:
We should change US Code 45X Section 12b to read:
"From now on, the right side of the road shall be painted white to reflect heat energy into space to reduce global warming."
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