Perhaps I can have it framed to help preserve it for future generations <| sep |> Like a starter violin . I was introduced to music on a recorder so a ukulele would be a huge improvement I am sure . <| sep |> But that would be a fair fight . Can ' t have that . <| sep |> Kajhit is innocent ! Khajit did nothing wrong ! <| sep |> It looks like the guy in the center has been hit by The Paralyzer <| sep |> If someone lives in a state that has already granted them the rights that they care about e . g . weed , gay marriage , etc or is already aligned with their views e . g . immigration , Obamacare , should they continue to push for those rightsviews elsewhere ? 1 It depends on how you conceptualize the union . Some see the United States as a union of separate states , which should be primarily run on a state level and which should only use the federal level for concerns which are either constitutional in nature , evoking the supremacy clause , or which involve issues between states . Others see the United States as a whole country which allows a degree of regional autonomy to states , but which is mostly a whole and which should largely be ruled under a single set of principles and thus laws . If you ' re more into state autonomy , I can see you concluding that it ' s up to people in their states to write their own destiny , and that interfering with them wouldn ' t be appreciated just like you wouldn ' t appreciate people from other states interfering with your state . I know as a Californian , I really didn ' t appreciate interest groups from Utah pouring money into my state to affect marriage equality . 2 It depends on whether or not the consequences of the issue are localized . There are some issues that are pretty local and largely only affect the people of a given region , but there are also some issues that have consequences for other states or the entire planet . If you ' re living in Vermont and you ' re extremely happy with your state ' s progress in environmental responsibility and sustainability , it probably does matter to you how very notgreen states like West Virginia are , because of the nature of environmental and climate damage . Air , water , land , and such are not contained by state lines , so it ' s in the interest of climate advocates to take a global viewpoint of policy change . If you are a Californian , your state having an independent public organization that draws up congressional districts prevents , at least in theory , gerrymandering to skew representation . How much does it ultimately matter to you as a Californian if New York ' s 10 th Congressional District cuts a bizarre swath from Manhattan to South Brooklyn , creating a nonsensical shape of very different neighborhoods ? If New Yorkers find that unfair , it ' s up to them to deal with . 3 It depends on how seriously you take the issue . While some people see the criminalization of marijuana as being mostly an issue because of problems with our criminal justice system , treating people who have an innocuous substance the same as they would for someone with cocaine or meth , a lot of people see criminalization as a minor inconvenience . Those people might vote to legalize in their state because ultimately it ' s a little silly to imprison people for marijuana , but there ' s no fire in their belly to go national and try to convince people in other states . They just see it as getting high , so it ' s not all that important . On the other hand , someone who perhaps had someone close to them imprisoned because of criminalization could feel a lot more strongly about the issue . They might be more invested and think that this is something deeply unjust and choose to pursue their advocacy until there ' s decriminalization or legalization in all 50 states , or even globally . Edit Whoops , missed the second question . If so , what ' s the best way to do that ? 1 Money . We ' re living in a fairly dark time in American political history because of the gradual increase of money in politics relative to inflation . While money has always been part of power and power part of politics , even midterm elections like 2010 involve many billions of dollars . While hopefully this system will change soon , for the time being the reality of American politics is that it ' s run largely by money . California 2016 Proposition 64 , legalization of marijuana , saw $ 22 . 5 million donated in favor , vs . a little over $ 2 million against . If you think this was inconsequential , I welcome you to compare 2016 Proposition 64 to 2010 Proposition 19 . Pundits and casual politicos likely attributed the win to cultural changes , but ultimately it was money which played a significant role not just in election spending but more importantly in being more reliable than polling on determining the outcome of the vote . 2 Engage the opposition in their territory and couch things in their terms . If you ' re on the right and you want to convince people on the left , you go online to social media and reframe the issue to be more in line with progressive values . Say , for example , you were a Trump supporter . Your online positions have to be that the man was simply pandering on wedge issues , and show that in the past he ' s been very clear about gay marriage and a woman ' s right to choose . That makes him look less like a social conservative social conservatives are the least likely to get voted for by progressives , and you can lean more on business experience to try and make him out to be effective on fiscal issues . Socially progressive and fiscally responsible means that Clinton has less room in the center and on the left . If you ' re on the left and you want to convince people on the right , you do hit social media to a point , to get Facebook moms and newmedia libertarians , but ultimately the base still operates through cable news , talk radio , and on the street . That means getting your campaign representatives on Fox News or Glen Beck to talk about your candidate or issue from a more conservative perspective , like state autonomy or individual responsibility or shrinking the Federal government . A woman ' s right to choose is traditionally opposed by social conservatives , but it can be argued that deciding something like that on a federal level is taking away our right to choose for ourselves as states , it ' s an attack on individual freedom and responsibility , and it ' s the federal government overreaching and creating unnecessary bureaucracy . You make sure that your campaign representative is not on a socially conservative show but a more libertarian show think Shep Smith instead of Sean Hannity . 3 If you ' re going to protest , study Otpor . Perhaps some might be too young to remember , but former president of Yugoslavia Slobodan Miloevi was ousted by a progressive activist movement in 2000 . Actually , this story is so much fun , I want you to go research them for yourself . I think you ' ll enjoy it .