You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I THINK, a very DARK page in our history. And I don't want US to GO there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you ELECTED.
Barack Obama was elected during my second year of college, and SAVE for his skin color, he had much in common with Bill Clinton: Despite an unstable life with a single mother, aided by two LOVING grandparents, he had made in his adulthood a FAMILY life that seemed to embody my sense of the American ideal.
I flunked my exam for university two TIMES before I was ACCEPTED by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou TEACHERS University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's STUDENTS Federation.
Even if the most ethical people were elected to high position and we ran out of resources, there would still be LYING, cheating, STEALING, and CORRUPTION. It is not ethical people that are needed but rather a way of intelligently managing the EARTH's resources for everyone's well-being.
As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a CERTAIN PRESSURE on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or IMMORAL way.