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Once you lose the right to vote, you are on track to lose all your other rights too. Suddenly you'll find out the trade was not worth it, albeit it'd be too lat

Once you lose the right to vote, you are on track to lose all your other rights too. Suddenly you'll find out the trade was not worth it, albeit it'd be too late. Never surrender voting rights for any reason. No vote == no voice in government.

lprubin 9y ago
A list of things that I think give a loud voice in government besides voting. - Donating to a candidate - Volunteering to help a candidate's campaign - Running for office - Working for a government agency - Writing about politics in blog, news publication, or scholarly journal. - Writing and circulating petitions - Protesting - Flyering for a cause - Creating tech that supports a political cause - Calling and emailing candidates and politicians about an issue
- devonkim 9y ago
  Having worked before at a government agency in a program explicitly designed and chartered to cause change in the respective agency, I really can't agree with that particular item. As organizations get larger and older they become ossified and (in the absence of systems designed to improve standards) slower, which tends to cause a vicious cycle that all large organizations suffer from private or public sector. Not all agencies are described this way, but the ones I have interest in changing (the most influence) are very, very resistant to change and what changes do happen are the opposite of the what I'd wish due to cultural resistance stuck in a feedback loop. This is at least leading to failed companies in private sector oftentimes, but it's even sadder in public sector. I think many people see this list and the first reaction will be "how will this enact change?" because many of us see that these actions are oftentimes ineffective against very well funded political machines and an increasingly jaded public. I basically don't look at political flyers and thanks to ad blockers I saw almost zero ads this past election cycle. But I did see lawn signs in Atlanta's record-setting congressional race this year.
Aeolun 9y ago
Vote = no voice in government

lprubin 9y ago

A list of things that I think give a loud voice in government besides voting. - Donating to a candidate - Volunteering to help a candidate's campaign - Running for office - Working for a government agency - Writing about politics in blog, news publication, or scholarly journal. - Writing and circulating petitions - Protesting - Flyering for a cause - Creating tech that supports a political cause - Calling and emailing candidates and politicians about an issue

devonkim 9y ago
Having worked before at a government agency in a program explicitly designed and chartered to cause change in the respective agency, I really can't agree with that particular item. As organizations get larger and older they become ossified and (in the absence of systems designed to improve standards) slower, which tends to cause a vicious cycle that all large organizations suffer from private or public sector. Not all agencies are described this way, but the ones I have interest in changing (the most influence) are very, very resistant to change and what changes do happen are the opposite of the what I'd wish due to cultural resistance stuck in a feedback loop. This is at least leading to failed companies in private sector oftentimes, but it's even sadder in public sector. I think many people see this list and the first reaction will be "how will this enact change?" because many of us see that these actions are oftentimes ineffective against very well funded political machines and an increasingly jaded public. I basically don't look at political flyers and thanks to ad blockers I saw almost zero ads this past election cycle. But I did see lawn signs in Atlanta's record-setting congressional race this year.

Aeolun 9y ago

Vote = no voice in government