"Robert A. Heinlein - Take back your Government" - читать интересную книгу автора (Heinlein Robert A)

passion of prostitution; the unorganized voting public can feel the difference.
Recapitulation-How to start: Take a telephone book. Look up your political
party. Telephone, locate your local club. Join it, attend all the meetings, and
do volunteer work for several months. At the end of drat time, let your
conscience be your guide. You will know enough to know where you belong
and what you should do.
I might as well admit right now that the above paragraph is really all this
book can tell you. The matter discussed in the later chapters are things which
you will learn for yourself in any case, provided you do everything called f or
in the paragraph above.
If you have skimmed through this book to this point without, as yet, laying
the purchase price on the counter, you can save the price of the book without
loss to yourself simply by remembering that one paragraph - and doing it!
On the other hand you might buy the book anyhow and lend it to your
loud-mouthed brother-in-law. Aren't you pretty sick of the way he is forever
flapping his jaw about the way the country is run? But when has he ever
done anything about it except to go down and kill your vote on election day
by voting the wrong way? Give him this book, then tell him to put up or shut
up!
You can point out to him that he owes it to his three kids to take a
responsible part in politics, instead of just beating his gums. If he won't get off
his fat backside and get busy in politics but still refuses to stop being a Big
Wind, you are then justified in indulging in the pleasure of being rude to him.
After all, you have wanted to be for years, haven't you? This is your
opportunity; you've got nothing to lose politically since he votes wrong
anyhow, when he remembers to vote, and it will come as a relief to be rude
for once, now that you are a politician and usually polite to all comers.
Tell him that he is so damned ignorant that he doesn't have any real
opinions about politics and so lax in his civic duties that he wouldn't be
entitled to opinions if he had any. Tell him to shut up and to quit holding up
the bridge game.
The faint sound of cheering you will hear from the distance will be me. I
don't like the jerk either, nor any of his tribe.


14
 You may not believe that getting into politics is actually as simple as I
have described it. Here is my own case: I returned to my own state after an
extended absence. My profession had kept me travelling and it happened to
be the first time I had ever been at home during a campaign. I walked into the
local street headquarters of my party and said to a woman at a desk, "I have
a telephone, an automobile, and a typewriter. What can I do?"
I was referred to another headquarters a couple of miles away - I was so
ignorant that I did not know the district boundaries and had gotten into the
wrong headquarters.
That very same day, to my utter amazement and confusion, I found myself
in charge of seven precincts.
Six weeks later I was a director of die local club.
Six months later I was publishing, in my spare time, a political newspaper
of two million circulation.