being a military officer, professional (and legal!) expectations prohibit me from being too active. i've even curtailed my participation on TFP to better align with good officership.
i've had some contact with congressmen in the past... my family is acquainted with some key politicians/governors of my home state and my mother is a republican delegate of some sort. like roachboy, my personal encounters with politicians make me less enamoured of their public personas.
so, as my preferences and circumstances dictate, my political activism is limited to 5 hour conversations over a large volume of beer and voting every chance i get.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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