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digi3446

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digi3446 10 months ago
I think that confining these activities to local governments will not work, because most people do not attend meetings, run for office, read internal publications, and so forth.

The Federal government must contact not merely local state, county, and city governments. Government-to-government communication is fine, and necessary - and strictly internal, with some few exceptions (as with the exceptional person below who attends city meetings).

What is necessary are open letters, memos... or some sort of communications published in **local news**, either in newspapers, or local TV and radio. These communications should alert people to a) the means by which they can communicate with Federal government programs such as this, and b) some few of the issues with which the government is concerned.

This will do two things: first, let the huge number of people who do not keep up with blogs, websites, and so forth know that they *can* participate, and how they can do that; and second, counter the enormous amount of right-wing venues which *do* use those avenues. The right has not, by and large, expanded into the high-tech area, and their spokesmen (and I use gender deliberately here) are most active in the older communications media. The Obama government must use those also.