Keep it local

From Sam Smith’s Good Things to do in Lousy Times:

Put national politics on the back burner. State and local politics are still a good battlefield, but national politics has been so completely bought by corporate interests that it won’t change until a lot of other things do first. It’s movement time again, just as it was in the 1950s and 60s. We must create for our era what the civil rights, peace and environmental activists did then. Then the politics will respond. Few things scare national politicians more than people getting organized.

Sam the progressive says this is how handle people such as Glen Beck: “Follow Samuel Goldwyn’s advice and “‘don’t even ignore him’.”