[MD] Krimel's Manifesto - A first draft

[Arlo Bensinger]

SA,

First, I never said you didn't "care" as a blanket statement about "anything".

You say are working from outside the system to change it. I've asked 
you last time to explain to me how "not voting" changes anything? We 
already have 50% of the voters not voting? At what percentage will 
things change? 20%? 10%? Let's say in the next election only 20% of 
the voters actually vote. How will the system change? What will it 
take for people to start "talking about why people are not voting"? 
Every election we see story after story about low voter turnout. We 
are already talking about it. We just don't care enough to do 
anything about it.

If people actually wanted change, they'd do a hell of a lot more than 
not vote. They call for rebellion, or they'd roll up their sleeves 
and get involved in the system. Not voting may send a message that 
you are unhappy with the system, but it also sends the message that 
you are content to wait for someone else to change it.

And I do agree with Ron, real change, change wrought by caring, will 
begin at the grassroots level, in local and state politics. And it 
will begin by dropping the inane "government is the problem" nonsense 
jabbered by Raygun. Government is only the problem to the extent that 
_WE_ are the problem, because our government is "we the people".

Arlo