Is it useless to take my morning to write each of our MN congresspeople and in particular is it useless to write a long letter to Michele Bachman.   It may be.   Postcards go to most; they *may* be pulled out of the mail, they *may* be shown to the congress person.   My hope is the that the flood of mail will be what matters.   I continue to hope that people CARE about our politics and not just TALK about our politics.   The big question is what does "care" mean and how do these elected officials really represent us.   

Since I was pleading for civility I was polite to M. Bachman.   I didn't even mention that I disagree vehemently with everything that she stands for.   I didn't remind her that she represents me also and might occasionally need to think on the other side of her line.  Instead I asked her to change the tone of her Tea Party.   I suggested that if she saw herself as a key and visible public figure in our national arena that she WAS one who could call for the change of rhetoric, take responsibility for the current abysmal theater and CHANGE it.   She'll never see the letter.  Why would I bother.  ? 

Then I think of the posting.   What if it were 2 years from now and we had 1,000 people posting.  Maybe they come in and out, write when moved or interested.   What if THEN we had such a tragedy as this and THEN there were hundreds and hundreds of hand written postcards piling up on out politicians desks.  Posters free to take whatever angle they wanted, express any political allegiance they embraced but being GRASSROOTS, standing up LOUDLY and together and being noticed.   wouldn't that be important and isn't it possible?  [i'm getting a little teary].  can we make that happen?