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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 12:45 PM EST |
A rare event it seems to me. Often (with a few notable exceptions) only when the
$$$ or the vote is likely to take a hit.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Tyro on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 11:49 PM EST |
What you say applies to commentary made in public and heard publicly. It
doesn't apply to simple messages.
Also, you are assuming that this is an issue that the individual hasn't already
made commitments WRT. (Though I've noticed that even then politicians will
usually search for someone with a viewpoint that they already want to support.)
N.B.: While I've said "politician", that's actually too narrow a
classification. I currently get perhaps 50 political e-mails a day. I
respond to few of them, but I don't respond to those who don't e-mail me. And
the one's that I respond to tend to be from groups I have historically supported
AND which are currently pushing some agenda that I support. Most of them I
don't even read.
"Politicians" are typical of people dealing with an overwhelming
communications burden...and it is that, even with staff filtering it. And that
staff is also dealing with an overwhelming communications burden.
Read "Gulliver's Travels" and think of Laputa, and the flappers. If
you don't get through the layers of flappers, your message will never even be
seen by a person who could act on it.
Which is why it's important to speak in public (i.e., to blog). But if you blog
significantly, you will start devoting lots of time to it, including dealing
with communications attempting to get you to address some particular point. So
you'll need to acquire your own flappers.
I know of no decent answer to this problem.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 11:58 PM EST |
>Slaves have never
Sparticus[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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