The Zone does not set government policy.
We don't have the power. We can just observe and criticize and argue.
Think about it, Rob. If you can't convince your friends, the people you choose to hang out with, that the policies you favor are the right way to go, how can you be so sure about them yourself?
Maybe your friends here worry about things like freedom, and liberty, and right and wrong, too.
Come to think about it, I've never worried about them as much as I have lately, and every day I seem I worry about them more.