From graduation parties to a mall, 10 mass shootings over the weekend leave at least a dozen dead

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8. Tyrannical anarchy.

These are like adult-size five-year-olds. That's all I can see in my mind. A bunch of unruly five-year-olds, willfully defiant and uncooperative because they damn well feel like it. Because they see it as their "right." So what if it gums up the works. They have a "right"!

Methinks we might need some good-parent behavior-modification to check the bad behavior and start encouraging and reinforcing the good behavior (which I'd relish, because MAN can you get a lot of talking points painting you as the good guy here - enlightened self-interest and all that, and it's the good-guy thing to do!). Just like you'd do if your kid misbehaves.

I just wish I could figure out what concrete steps to take besides urging voter participation. How do we execute this in a practical sense? What do we need to do? Specifically, individually, actively, passively, written or verbal, creatively, defensively, strategically, in a local group if you have one or know of one...?

And what are we trying to achieve?

Because my daddy was a salesman, I grew up with lots of slogans but one in particular that was by far most basic and over-arching of all:
Late to bed
Early to rise
Work like hell
And ADVERTISE!

So we each take a wee bite out of this big-ass pie and work with that wee bite. EVERY little bit helps. Doing nothing gets us nowhere. EVERY wee bit inches us forward.

Be a trim tab (there's a visual of it in this link)!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_tab