Martin: I acknowledge your point. I do use Umair's popularity to get some attention for my cause. Medium does not seem like my articles (average views is about 20), so I have to try different techniques.

This current response was, in part, a marketing test. I was trying to see how many people I can "lure" into my website. It looks like 2 is the answer. Neither visitor went past Chapter 1. Not worth my time to concoct my response to Umair's article, but I shall continue to bug Umair once a month.

Umair's readers have a pretty good idea of what is wrong with the world. Umair is preaching to his choir right now. After a year of following Umair, I don't see him or his fans charting out any course.

Umair's readers have had a reasonable chance to inspect my work in the past year. It seems they prefer to wash their hands of declining state of the world than to do something about it.

If we want the world to change, we do things we might not like doing--like:

1) Forego some frivolous activity to put 10 hours a month to put together a local TDG.

2) Find some neighbors to help us out.

These actions will eventually produce the class of politicians we are so yearning for. But trying to bend the will of those overly ambitious people aspiring for today's public office is probably not going to bear much fruit.