People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
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If you want to have a big impact, government is the way to do it. Just think of the number of people you can touch.
When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
You know the way Washington works. Once you start floating ideas, they are immediately attacked by all the different interest groups before the ideas can be brought to fruition.
Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.
As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out.
The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.
To get involved with a cause, you really have to become aware of it. You have to go on the ground and see with your own eyes, the people who have been affected by it, their process in how they're combating it, and what the organization represents.
Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.
There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking.
You need to be intent on reducing size, scope, and influence of government.