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What's approach is actually going to get the job done, instead of just being emotionally satisfying to talk about?

This is a great question. Too often, I fear, we all vent on different bulletin boards and websites but don't actually follow through with anything concrete.

I've started a set of suggestions for people,as follows:

In my view we do have choices, its just that its a lot of work to follow them.

Who says the party elites are the ones to choose a candidate? Why not get involved in your local central committee. Make sure that the candidate is a person that is nominated from the ranking party members, not the elites.

Make sure the candidate has no affiliation with the Council on Foreign Relations, the Council of the Americas, the Trilateral Commission or any other internationalist NGO.

Grassroots politics means spending your time having town meetings, coffees with your neighbors and meeting en masse with your elected and party officials to let them know you want America back.

If a good candidate is getting vilified, write some letters to editors and tell the truth. Contact the people who are writing the articles and talk to them about the content of the pieces.

You can make the choices different. It just means a committment to your country and your fellow Americans of time, money and the truth.

What would you add?

What would you add?

Don't be afraid to vote "off the board" when both main candidates are clearly unacceptable - ESPECIALLY if it doesn't appear that the election in your state will be close. After a certan point, it makes no sense to constantly split hairs over which one's slightly better than the other. If they're both substandard, it's better to signal to the political class that both choices are unacceptable. It may result in a temporary setback if the "worse" one wins, but long-term, it's the only way to turn things around.

I think we have the clout here at FR with which to ask Republican candidates to stand for examination by interview here on this forum.

It would look rather bad if they refused.

Jim, is there a way to get the local chapters to execute the contacts with the campaigns to organize such interviews? Has there been such an attempt before?