Communicate

The previous post is one of those things that slip under the radar of most people. You know, and I know, that everything the Bush administration does is subsumed by the political imperative; nothing bad must ever be admitted. President Bush is one of, if not the Worst President Ever (a blog commonplace, abbreviated WPE). His is not just a case of maladministration, but of active and intentional transformation of the government to suit his agenda.

How to communicate this to the mass of Americans not obsessively following politics as we do (I'm making an assumption, here)? Get out and talk about it: at the water-cooler, at get-togethers; make it part of the common conversation. Griping amongst ourselves is not going to do it.

My neighbor is my gauge; she is a stay-at-home mother going to school (off-and-on) to become a nurse. She doesn't follow current events. It's hard to speak of elections to her; she votes as her husband tells her to. If I can get through to her in a casual way, without haranguing her or turning her off to the whole idea, then I feel that progress is being made: perhaps her new-found attitude will percolate out to friends and relatives. And so on, and so on...