How to Influence a Politician

[deckardcanine]

1. Make yourself look and sound like a given politician, only significantly older. If you can't pull it off, find someone who can whom you trust. Let's call this person X.

2. Make sure that X knows a lot about the politician's history, just to be safe.

3. Optional: Dress X in a way that you imagine old people will dress in however many years. Otherwise, a standard business suit should do.

4. The hard part: Get your hands on an amazing invention that very few people know about yet. If necessary, invent it yourself.

5. Have X approach the politician in private, claiming to be his or her time-traveling future self. The little-known invention serves as "proof."

6. Have X advise the politician in whatever ways you wish, making up future disasters if he or she asks why.

Comments

[marmoe.livejournal.com]

There are more radical solutions.
http://xkcd.com/716/ ;-)

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

That cartoon struck me (NPI) as stupid. Simply hearing your future self should be all the discouragement you need. But then, the stickman in question knows himself better than I do.

[marmoe.livejournal.com]

I think it's simply that future stickman wants to prevent the invention of timetravel, but still survive himself, rather than his present incarnation. Still opens up all sorts of paradoxes. Not one of the better ones.

Besides, it does not help in your case where you want to influence a foreigner.