That’s funny I literally emailed my congresscritter yesterday asking them what they thought of Trump making their seat in Congress useless. And I asked if they were just there to make money off of the lack of insider trader rules with congresscritters.
Do you think they hire someone to hit the delete button on their inbox? Their job is to summarize who is trying to contact them and why. If suddenly thousands of people are calling and emailing every day, they’re not going to keep it to themselves. And these aren’t jobs you get by accident, so don’t feel bad for them.
If your senator or rep doesn’t care, cool, their voicemail just became your personal therapy box. As long as you’re not threatening violence or calling dozens of times per day, you can say anything you want about them. If you think it doesn’t feel good to leave a voicemail telling a member of Congress they’re a spineless piece of shit who couldn’t find their own ass with a flashlight and two hands, I have to assume it’s because you haven’t tried it.
Act like you can engage in psychological warfare here, because you can.
I guarantee certain emails are discarded outright for being overly hostile, the line for which is up to the reader’s judgement. It’s not likely someone’s being paid to do it, more like interns hoping to one day work in government.
I’d love to, but one of my senators is crackpot trumpy republican and won’t care (cus he won’t for sure) and the other is a dem who has always been vociferously opposed to all regressive stuff because she’s a lesbian. Whether or not she’s useful, ehh… she’s got a good and long-term track record for the state…
Frankly I’m too tired to keep playing these games when it quite clearly doesn’t matter. If we weren’t so heavily gerrymandered we’d have mostly blue state reps, but we got hit with the ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-gerybomb! decades back and have no clear path to fair electoral maps so we stay solidly swingy.
That’s funny I literally emailed my congresscritter yesterday asking them what they thought of Trump making their seat in Congress useless. And I asked if they were just there to make money off of the lack of insider trader rules with congresscritters.
Incite some shit back, my fellow US Americans.
Some low level worker read that and deleted it.
Do you think they hire someone to hit the delete button on their inbox? Their job is to summarize who is trying to contact them and why. If suddenly thousands of people are calling and emailing every day, they’re not going to keep it to themselves. And these aren’t jobs you get by accident, so don’t feel bad for them.
If your senator or rep doesn’t care, cool, their voicemail just became your personal therapy box. As long as you’re not threatening violence or calling dozens of times per day, you can say anything you want about them. If you think it doesn’t feel good to leave a voicemail telling a member of Congress they’re a spineless piece of shit who couldn’t find their own ass with a flashlight and two hands, I have to assume it’s because you haven’t tried it.
Act like you can engage in psychological warfare here, because you can.
Yes.
Do you think their job is to listen to constituents over lobbyists or their bosses? You are not important to them.
If suddenly thousands of people are calling and complaining about something Trump is doing they’re going to go with what Trump wants.
And why is this a reason to not make them miserable by relentlessly hounding them with demands to do the actual job they were elected to do?
Just a while ago the news was that the DNC would do just that for anything Gaza related.
I guarantee certain emails are discarded outright for being overly hostile, the line for which is up to the reader’s judgement. It’s not likely someone’s being paid to do it, more like interns hoping to one day work in government.
I’d love to, but one of my senators is crackpot trumpy republican and won’t care (cus he won’t for sure) and the other is a dem who has always been vociferously opposed to all regressive stuff because she’s a lesbian. Whether or not she’s useful, ehh… she’s got a good and long-term track record for the state…
Frankly I’m too tired to keep playing these games when it quite clearly doesn’t matter. If we weren’t so heavily gerrymandered we’d have mostly blue state reps, but we got hit with the ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-gerybomb! decades back and have no clear path to fair electoral maps so we stay solidly swingy.