In less than three months the U.S. will elect a President, 435 members of Congress and approximately one third of the Senate. Those who support “Indefinite Life Extension” need to become involved - silence and apathy are not rewarded.
I believe that more and more people are learning about this issue, inquiring about it, and becoming more supportive of it.
Our main problem remains “ignorance” about how the dream of indefinite life extension can become a successful reality.
It is vital that we continue our efforts to build a consensus for research in this area and begin to challenge our lawmakers, demanding
that life extension research become a national priority. Here are several things that you can do - many take only a few minutes yet produce extraordinary results.
1. Send your House of Representative members in your state, as well as your two Senators and all of their opponents a letter indicating your support for life extension. Tell them unequivocally that your vote is contingent on their response to your letter. Sadly, your letter will have to be mailed to the House incumbents since they refuse to make their E-mail address available to the general public. This is a ridiculous, anti-democratic situation!
2. Try to organize a group of friends, neighbors, relatives, etc. and ask them to also contact their elected officials.
3. Send the challengers to the incumbents a letter, as well, asking their position on “life extension”. Normally their headquarters, phone
numbers and E-mail addresses are available on their website and they are easy to contact.
4. Write to President Obama and Mitt Romney asking how they feel about “life extension” and public funding of it through the Federal budget. Their E-Mail addresses are: President@WhiteHouse.Gov and info@MittRomney.com
5. Build a social media conversation on Facebook and Twitter encouraging people to support or oppose a candidate based on his or her answers.
6. Organize a “call day” where people who support life extension can orally communicate to those who aspire to represent them .
Life extension can be greatly enhanced with your help. Please get involved now - your life depends on it.
IEET Blog
This may be the most crucial non-technical piece at IEET or any other h+- type site. However to avoid massive wasted-motion/time we have to pick our target audiences carefully.
To go somewhat off-topic, though Romney is the first politician I have disliked intensely (I sense he has no core beliefs, and lacks the talent of Clinton), he does represent a segment of the electorate whose role I can’t go into without straying too far offtopic. Suffice it to say that those who Romney represents are serious about commerce and are to be taken seriously—yet to get to the heart of it, they have very little interest in technoprogressivism and we would be wasting time, stamps, and envelopes writing them.
However, the Obamas of this world will listen if we can get to them.