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Old 12-22-2009, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Ayatollahgondola View Post
That's a good question. We have to develop a strategy for this, but without a big bargaining chip in our hand they have no reason to listen to us or act on our wishes. Normally it's money and/or power that gets their ear, but over the course of centuries there has been other factors that directed them also. Religion for example.
We don't have money, nor any real power.

The bargaining chip would have to be created by finding a way to pry them away from the trough.

How can the current national discontent be harnessed to whack the politicians between the eyes and get them to listen and do for once?
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