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= Ten ways to make a political difference =
Ten ways to be an effective political activist, in a roughly decreasing order of importance:
 
== Ten ways to be an effective political activist, in a roughly decreasing order of importance: ==


# '''Be prepared to vote with your feet.''' Add interstate and international diversity to your social networks -- both personal and business. Lower your costs of exiting, if the need should arise, the jurisdictions that impose on the territories wherein you reside. Repeatedly in history -- from the old American frontier to the fall of the Berlin Wall to modern jurisdictions that specialize in international trade -- low exit costs have not only enabled liberty for the individual and the small group, but they have more than any other factor motivated the larger jurisdiction to provide the most important rights and freedoms for those who stay put. Grow interpolitical roots so that no single polity can chop down your tree. The good news is that modern communications, travel, and standardization of international languages (mostly on English) have made diversifying our social networks -- growing international roots -- far easier than ever before in history.
# '''Be prepared to vote with your feet.''' Add interstate and international diversity to your social networks -- both personal and business. Lower your costs of exiting, if the need should arise, the jurisdictions that impose on the territories wherein you reside. Repeatedly in history -- from the old American frontier to the fall of the Berlin Wall to modern jurisdictions that specialize in international trade -- low exit costs have not only enabled liberty for the individual and the small group, but they have more than any other factor motivated the larger jurisdiction to provide the most important rights and freedoms for those who stay put. Grow interpolitical roots so that no single polity can chop down your tree. The good news is that modern communications, travel, and standardization of international languages (mostly on English) have made diversifying our social networks -- growing international roots -- far easier than ever before in history.
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# '''Vote for and against politicians,''' but don't be fooled -- of all these ten ways to make a political difference, voting in a political election makes the least difference.
# '''Vote for and against politicians,''' but don't be fooled -- of all these ten ways to make a political difference, voting in a political election makes the least difference.
Source:
Nick Szabo. https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2007/08/ten-ways-to-make-difference.html