1. Notes: 10 / 1 month ago 

    Having worked as an astro-turfer I can tell you with authority that e-mailing/writing/calling your congressional rep is literally never going to go in front of anyone who gives a shit. 99% of the time, an unpaid teenage volunteer will glance at it long enough to grab the return address and send you an auto-generated reply. The only* way something you said as an individual constituent ends up on a congressperson’s mind is if literally EVERYONE has tried to contact them about it, and a senior staffer having dealt with a mountain of mail and gridlocked phones all day about SOPA is like “Ma’am or Sir, people are real angry about this.” Even that would probably be ignored if there weren’t industry lobbyists or major economic/donations players scheduling meetings with senior staffers about it. In a lot of ways, writing your rep is as pointless as voting, except even more pointless because there are no third-parties and instead of needing 50%+1 you need a super duper double secret majority for someone to even begin to consider considering whatever the fuck you’re concerned about.

    *There is an exception if you have a particularly heart-breaking or uplifting story that is tangentially related to the congressperson’s pet issue that a staffer realizes they can use while stumping for donations.

    - another good post on online petitions/”writing your congressman”

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    1. justsomemaoist reblogged this from 3liza
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    3. deadlyinflection reblogged this from 3liza and added:
      wonder why I think our government
    4. kazdraws said: what can we do? do physical petitions work? does throwing a rock into their windows with messages engraved into them work? does flying a banner behind an airplane over their houses work?
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