Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

I would love to continue this thread but I don't want to turn away all
of my potential customers - lol. I'll send you a note off line.

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "zoinky420" <zoinky420@...> wrote:
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> --- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "korgpolyex800" <korgpolyex800@> 
> wrote:
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> >> 
> > While in the US, did you ever write or phone your congressman?
> > 
> > The reason I ask is because absolutely every single person that I've
> > spoken to that has held similar sentiments as you hold has NEVER
> > called or written their congressman. It's all whining, complaining and
> > pontificating repeating the current liberal talking points but NEVER
> > active involvement in the political process. Someone once said,
> > Democracy is not a spectator sport.
> >
> 
> Well since we're already off topic!...
> 
> I think that writing your congressman or other elected-official is a 
> waste of time, unless you're writing a letter expousing a position your 
> recipient already agrees with, in which case he or she may send copies 
> of the letter to the media as means to demonstrate his or her support 
> among the voters.  Congressmen and other elected officials do not sit 
> around in their offices wondering what position they should support, 
> just waiting for someone to write them a letter telling them what to 
> do.  They come to politics heavy with ideology and they work in 
> politics for the purpose of advancing that ideology.  If it's really 
> important to you to have some influence in govt, you'd be far more 
> influential getting a position as a paid advisor to a politician than 
> you would writing a jillion letters. Or run in an election yourself, 
> and take the piss out of your competition in debates.  Even becoming a 
> journalist, who can slant and bias articles the way you want, would be 
> more effective than sending a letter to a politician to be filed in the 
> circular filing cabinet. 
> 
> Democracy is probably the best system available, but that does not mean 
> it's a great system.  By its very nature it must pander to the lowest 
> common denominator (watching political tv commercials around election 
> time in democratic countries demonstrates that much), and I think that 
> recognizing that is of chief importance to those who seek to protect 
> and bolster democracy.  Holding it up as a gold standard that can do no 
> wrong and must be forced upon every non-democractic population in the 
> world in order to save them from dictatorial boogeymen only serves to 
> weaken democracy's usefulness and popularity.  Don't get me wrong, I 
> supported both of the recent middle-east wars, until they were won and 
> became occupations with bringing wonderous democracy to the defeated 
> used as an excuse to keep pushing them around ad infinitum...
>