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Does anyone remember all the groups that began at the same time SOS did? Take for example Fire Coalition. That's Jason Mroechek's company that also hosts the WeHireAliens.com site. Although he's still around, he struggles with popularity and involvement despite strong committment by his own hand. Their forum hasn't seen much activity since 2010, and most threads haven't seen activity since 2009. He has succumbed to facebook for hopeful advertisement, as have many others. And while I'm on the subject of facebook, that has probably become the biggest draw for virtual involvement that I can see. So many of our old posters are using that, as well as those from other groups, that it has supplanted their own media as well. Personally I don't like Facebook's software, so I don't use it much. SOS has a page, but I use it sparingly, but check it daily. My disdain for it is not shared by the majority though, and thus we have seen very much of our associated groups migrate there for action and communication. But to get back to my research, the interest level here has not dropped any more than it has everywhere else. Actually I think we're doing ok considering the circumstances out there. I volunteered at a TEA party event this monday that spent considerable funding and time, as well as having secured a few big names to speak, and the turnout, although welcome, was not entirely uplifting. The TEA party is noticing the difference as well. I spoke with many of them about this, and their speculative responses were similar to my own. Everyone is down, even our opposition. The UFW is struggling for membership. Their Ceasar Chavez day events this year were as weak as I have ever seen them, and several of the events they held at the capitol, and nearby which were permitted for thousands, only turned up hundreds. Now what are people getting involved in? Well, here in Sac right now the big deal is saving the Kings basketball team. I'm not mystified by their behavior anymore, but still am by what motivates it. The Kings articles in the SacBee generate close to 1000 posts in the comment section within 24 hours. Face it; Entertainment rules, and government sucks. If anything keeps us down it's competition like that. Our state is bankrupt(yes, it is if we were a business), We are at war with several other people, Rights are in jeopardy, manufacturing and tech jobs, if not being forced out are fleeing the state and the country, and we have 20 to 30 million foreigners within our boundaries who were not authorized to be here. But the resident here in the capitol city are most consumed with losing a sports team, which by most factual basis's employ less than 1,000 people in quite low paying, non technical - non-manufacturing - low wage jobs that usually require taxpayer subsidized services to keep them afloat. Their claim is that we need the sales tax revenue and other related monies that this form of entertainment generates, while I agree that we don't need an additional loss of such at this time, this is hardly the stuff that saves state budgets So not to get off on a tangent, but just to point out that we are not doing something terribly wrong that is causing losses to our input base. Obviously we would like to overcome this, and doing nothing is not an answer of course, but things must be kept in perspective, and blame has to be assigned in a greater spectrum than just the immediate usual suspects. |
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