Comments on: Power to the People’s Proxies https://www.isegoria.net/2014/07/power-to-the-peoples-proxies/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 31 May 2026 02:04:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bruce https://www.isegoria.net/2014/07/power-to-the-peoples-proxies/comment-page-1/#comment-1412695 Bruce Wed, 06 Aug 2014 05:39:25 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=35772#comment-1412695 Find one bureaucrat who would like to do what you want. He’s a nice guy; it would give him a budget increase. Visit your congressman’s office and ask them to send him an attaboy letter for his file. Look up your state pols, call five on relevant committees, and ask them to send him attaboy letters for his personnel file. This will almost certainly work, even for charmless loners, as long as no one else cares about the issue. Trust me, I’m one, and it worked for me. If other people care about the issue, it will still have some force. Can you convince five other people to do this? Your congressman will see you as a political force if you do. You might still lose, but the other side will feel it.

No, of course making noise at a public meeting won’t work. Norman Rockwell was a fine painter, but damn.

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