Are you an armchair internet warrior?

Are you an armchair internet warrior?
Are you politically active in a non-internet related way in the real world?

If you are only an armchair internet warrior, what kind of difference do you think your online political posts make?

Thanks to DU I found out Randi was on cspan. My wife and I watched. Now my wife is a big fan, so something positive came out of it.

I know this isnt what you meant, but in a round about kind of way it may be.

The more Democratic voters we can bring into the fold, the better. :toast:

The pleasure is all mine.

Cheers

:hi:

* took office, I have the time to be more active than when I had job responsibilities. Fortunately, by the grace of the FSM, I'm in reasonably good health and financially secure enough to do so, at least at the present time.

OTOH, I'm now 64 years old and I don't have the energy I once had. So I find I must pace myself a bit. Being an armchair internet warrior has a certain appeal for an old fart like me.

It's a shame that we can't balance the passion of youth with the wisdom(?) of age.

I think I've made a difference online, at other forums, by getting people to think. Several have told me my posts made them research some issues in order to better debate them with me.

Offline I'm involved with the local Dem party. That includes fundraisers, manning the phones, distributing candidate's brochures door to door, etc.

here at DU....and am dedicated as a Nurse Legislative Liaison, supporting State Democrats with Nurses PAC money.....that is fun...

Additionally, I working closely with a local U.S Congressional Candidates Campaign......

but family concerns must take precedent. My first job now is "health care assistant" to Hubby, who is on dialysis, and at this point probably has more doctors than friends.

My small contribution to politics is to vote, talk to friends and to shop with our meager income at stores that are user friendly, and avoid the MallWarts of the world.

On DU I try to share bits of my eclectic knowledge with others, as knowledge is power.

The smarter you are, and as much as they say otherwise, people
become more "intelligent" over a lifetime if they want to become so.
and no job in the southern man's economy pays us to think. For if
you are paid to think, then your work is ultimately "written". If
you quit your job and write that same "intel" online, workng as a
public agent, the "dumping" of the work creates an economic vacuum that
cuts to the core of the value-slavery of human beings... that people
are solely motivated by money. So, in dumping "intelligence" online,
there is clearly a vacuum given what we're seeing in the mainstream
media.

So here in alternate.alternate.underground, we try to serve alternate
visions, of a world without a drugs war, without wars and a greedy
empire, a world where all human beings have equal rights. I think that
if more people who believed in justice in their hearts, spoke up online,
that the world would indeed change, as online is where we can challenge
the ignorance, by being honest, truthful and frank.

The value of online, is in speaking frankly, we can bring a heard of
persons who are way behind the knowledge curve towards the same
common sense. In my years here, i've kept clippings of several issues
of print publicaions that have clearly drawn portions of stories from
online threads i've been party-to.

I think it comes down to breaking the frontiers of self-honesty about
what kind of persons we are. .. and when any one of us do it, the others
all do vicariously, that the collective intelligence is indeed by far the
most coherent "virtual enlightened mind" you can find in print.

And in my childhood science ficion dreams, the concept of a worldwide
truth forum was beyond most of even those writers.... (enders game aside).
And if you read "enders game", that author indeed captures the future of
the online writer.

To write here, is not to carry the baggage of reputation pretense,
to be able to be honest, when we are free from appearance.

But really, the writing must satisfy the artist first, and who is to say
but me, whether these words serve to block out the unknown like bars
in a cage i've self-manufactured, of preconception to hold out the
intimate experience of what is behind those words; the truth of that mystery.

like to become an activist. I have realy good conections in the music industry, and pretty soon a kick-ass professionaly designed website.

"Get off the internet; I'll see you in the streets"