Comments on: VA Citizens Have Had Enough!

By: Mark Brooks

Mark Brooks — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:17:54 +0000

No time like successful times to bring more peopke to the light.

Or so the theory goes.

By: MB

MB — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:22:25 +0000

In terms of getting people involved, I suspect you’ll be suffering from a good bit of “What’s the point of it all?” discouragement from people who would otherwise be active participants. Even with the victories of last fall, there’ve been six years of such appallingly bad government without consequence to its perpetrators. That takes a toll on idealism and faith in good government, and I think it’ll take a fair bit of time and work to overcome that.

By: Mark Brooks

Mark Brooks — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:45:48 +0000

Wow, could I have written parts of that any more confusingly?

By: Mark Brooks

Mark Brooks — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:43:26 +0000

Oh, I agree with you.

I just wonder what it will take. I was jumping ahead to a possible solution where more people get involved and help change things, instead of complaining about stupid stuff.

I absolutely agree. Although this is not a national election year, the real change this year can come in getting our own legislature more productive members and get rid of the GOP deadwood.

Then I will concentrate on bigger policy changes that I can help change by helping to elect more reasonable representatives in 2008.

I need help though, because from where I sit on the party side of things for Democrats, it is a never ending merry go round. I just can’t get people interested or excited about taking part in change.

By: MB

MB — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:46:13 +0000

There’s such a gap between Iraq and tall median grass that I wouldn’t even know where to start, Mark.

By: Mark Brooks

Mark Brooks — Thu, 31 May 2007 02:04:05 +0000

The job they do here in cutting the roadside is very bad. Some areas are mowed to the right of way, other places, not so much.

I see merit in what you are saying, but if these people who complain about things like this have to do without or can’t have food or electricity, some of them will the biggest bitchers in the land.

Do we make politics or more accurately, the state of our nation, more sexy? Should we sell policy like they sell us a car?

Or do we find some way to galvanize more people to the cause, and hopefully complain more about Iraq and other atrocities, and less about roadside mowing.