Challenge #02339-F149: Taking Account
Political Hopeful scouting for votes and says "Those Words" - "How can I help?" You can spin this anyway you like. -- Anon Guest
There's two ways to be a Politico of the People. One is to take the vocal majority's word and run with it all the way to a populist poll... and the other is to actually listen to all of the people. The latter is far more difficult to do and harder to accomplish, so many Politico's don't even try.
Not Solomon Grady. Sol absorbed a popular speech about choosing to do the things because they were hard. The difficult things to do were, ultimately, the most rewarding. Science is still ploughing through all the data and samples they got from going to the moon. Therefore, he gathered data from the neighbourhoods where he was running.
Not just a survey, but opinions. The phrase, "How can I help?" became his catch phrase. The data he returned with was phenomenal, but it became a plan. Step one: ignore the racist and sexist trolls with self-entitled whining about how such-and-such group of people 'stole their job' or any other like thing. It is the peak of entitlement to claim something as one's own before it is ever earned.
Sol's plan focussed on things that the community needed. Accessibility for all, a boost for local business owners, paid for with a tax on the multi-billion-dollar chains that set up shop there. Of course, Sol was declared an enemy of Capitalism, which then got him the Millennial Vote.
The single biggest block of voters since the Boomers, who were dying out. They were in favour of all the things Capitalism hated, like the environment, sustainability, wages where one was a mere shrug of an insurance agent from falling into poverty, homelessness, and despair. People who believed that food, shelter, and adequate medical care were human rights.
It was quite a shock to the right wing when Sol became president. They had, after all, attempted to sabotage him at every turn. But since it was President Sol or revolution, the right wisely decided to slink out of his way. Reformation wasn't easy. It was an uphill battle the entire time, with businesses attempting every last dirty trick to get out of it, get away with it, and get going before the tax laws came in.
Ultimately, they failed. Ultimately, reformation restored human rights, and spread them throughout the globe. Ultimately, the world became worth living in again.
It wasn't easy. The worthwhile things never are.
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I would much prefer President Sol over revolution too (because revolutions always seem to involve blood O_O;) XD