STEP ONE

Well, I called the offices of Richard Burr and Thom Tillis, my two Republican senators from North Carolina, and expressed my desire that they would work with Lindsey Graham and John McCain to investigate the role played by the Russians in our election.  One voice is nothing, but it actually does not take an enormous number of constituent calls to make an impression.  I do understand that we intellectuals are accustomed to our solitary voices being taken seriously, but this is politics, not philosophy.