• archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialOP
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    2 months ago

    You can either try to nudge it towards the better asshole or you can whine about it or whatever

    for a second I thought you had it, but then you landed on the wrong note.

    I was looking for ‘you can try to nudge them toward the better policy’, but people here are either so black pilled that they don’t see a point in trying or they believe that democrats doing the right thing (even just not doing the evil thing) will certainly cost them an election. I think the latter perspective is the most black-pilling opinion i’ve ever seen, and possibly the best argument i’ve ever seen against liberal democracies at all.

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      2 months ago

      for my part, I have been absolutely up the asses of my state senators and reps, contacting them at least once a week. We just had local elections and I made sure to vote for the politicians who said they care about i the issues that I do.

      The democrats are on the wrong side of this one, no doubt. It’s still the reality that we live in that Trump and the republican party are way worse at the federal level than biden and the democrats.

      I get your rage, I really do. But again, i’m a realist. i don’t think we are going to see eye to eye so i’m out but I wish you a good day and I appreciate your fire.

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        2 months ago

        I appreciate the acknowledgement, but i’m of the opinion that politicians don’t respond to cold calls and emails, but do respond to relentless bad press.

        But so long as I can do both at the same time, i will continue doing so.

        A thought just occurred to me that I could send the memes directly to their offices…