What Shall I Tell My Congressman?

[bobby1933]

The Congressman who represents the district i live in is considered a conservative Republican.  He has accepted tea party endorsement and money from the Koch brothers.  I find his agenda opposed to my interests, irrelevant to my interests, or just the usual political bullshit.  The only area in which we seem to share any common ground is on

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[amaebi]

Oh, I like this, and it is helpful to me. I have not done my own introductory letters yet.

I think, for this sort of thing, for an opening I wouldn't have thought to include without you post, I will talk briefly about a congressperson's balance between representing the people and representing hir own conscience. I may mention Caesar Romney in "1776." And about the people the congressperson represents. And about the Jefferson County school board as a Juggernaut of conscience which does not represent those it serves, nor willingly hear them.

[bobby1933]

Thank you.

I'm trying think of something equivalent here. Maybe the closed Republican primary? Or the refusal to guarantee civil rights for non-heterosexuals?

We have no one here who is taken seriously who can match your exorcist preacher, people like him do set a standard of incredibility that makes other nuts seem less nutty and paves the way for more openly sociopathic and psychopathic candidates than we are used to

[amaebi]

YES!

I find myself shocked and worried by what shoddy "At least I'm/we're better than" standards people are coming up with now!

[vaporw]

Voters who aren't registered to vote, or who are and didn't vote are abusing their responsibility of being an adult in the US.

[bobby1933]

Well, that is certainly the opinion of many people.

[bobby1933]

I agree!

As to voter suppression laws, i have not seen a good number on the percentage turnout, but i am hearing that it was about 33%. If so, this would be the lowest turnout ever (or at least since 1948. The lowest previous percentage was 39% (in 1974, 1978. 1986, and 1998). 33% is so much lower than 38% that something must explain it. Voter suppression would be my guess also. On the other hand, we have never had higher than a 49% turnout in an "off-year" election and never higher than 65% in a Presidential election. Other democracies have much higher turnouts. Incidentally 6 percent is about ten to twelve million votes.

Correction: Yesterday's Washington Post says that turnout was 36.5%, the lowest since 1940.