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As a hard core liberal, I share these types of concerns. Many of the peeps I lobby are from the tech industry. Lots of face-palm moments.

It's a mistake to assume tech savviness. Much I love, respect, and admire most of their policy work. Hell, I cringe at my own prior views on privacy, intellectual property, open markets, and so forth. And I'm chin deep into this stuff.

I've come to embrace building relationships, incrementalism, taking the long view on big issues. My younger fire-brand self would be appalled.

So lobby, lobby, lobby. Build the trust, move the needle. Camp Wellstone and others provide great resources and training, for those who want to step up.

As one politician, David Cobb, I greatly admire is fond of saying "Whenever I feel the heat, I see the light!"

http://www.wellstone.org/programs/camp-wellstone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cobb




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