While everybody is frantically tweeting, booking, snapping and whatever other social media channels where everybody is so busy yelling at each other nothing is actually accomplished…… a simple, well thought out, conscise letter arriving to the Inbox of your legislators office can actually carry a lot of weight.
Nobody listens while talking. Social media is meant for arguing. But a letter allows the reader to digest the subject at their own pace. No catchy phrases or statistics or that sort of rhetoric will gain the readers interest as those are things that put said readers in a defensive posture.
Nope, just share a story that will capture the readers attention while mentioning how you understand why they could be alarmed about youth vaping or recent illness issues. Politely get the point(s) across about the virtues of vaping instead of smoking.
Most folks do not know that the American President and Soviet President used to write letters to each other. What began as a debate via pen and paper ended up bringing an end to the Cold War a couple of decades ago. Once each had cross examined each others letter and retorted a few times a genuine dialog occured and two people who had never met yet hated each other ended up becoming mutually respectful of each other. Friends in the end.
