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Comment on I'm just like some ordinary dude upset about what the government is doing. Doesn't anyone with any sort of means or influence care? Where are those guys?

FireTower@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Do you know the name of the member of your state’s House of Representatives that represents your district? When was the last time you spoke to your federal representative? Do he/she not answer your calls because they have to many constituents? Talk to people in your neighborhood about the need for more representatives in the house.

All sovereign power comes from the people. Read: you are that guy.

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OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
This is a great way to deflect legitimate blame from the Democratic party representatives and operatives who actually deserve it, as if it isn’t their goddamn job to listen to voters.

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- FireTower@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  How can they listen to the voters if the voters never speak to them. My comment was not on the DNC or RNC but on the core of all forms of representative democracies.
  
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  - sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Also, those same fucking voters keep electing the same decrepit representatives, so why should they (the reps) be expected to rock their money boat?
    
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    ___@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Have you tried enacting change and getting third party elected? Are you seriously blaming the voters as if they ever had more than 2 choices?
    
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- FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yeah, that person’s comment reads like a corporation blaming the individual because they don’t recycle enough, as if the individual’s recycling habits are in any way comparable to the widespread pollution corporations create.
  
  Unless you’re a billionaire or willing to go player 2, you have no meaningful power to change any of this. What you do have the power to do is make your own little corner of the world slightly better, and everyone should.
  
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AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
No we are not. Our “representatives” listen to their corporate masters, the ones who line their pockets and fund their campaigns. They don’t listen to us.

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- FireTower@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Re-read my comment above. They only have power which we vest in them.
  
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Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I can be polite and qont ham fist political conversations but yeah, don’t give me an opening, I’ll drive the knife in.

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shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
LOL, my rep was Matt Gaetz, don’t know the new guy.

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