Things that are depressing and annoying
Apr. 11th, 2005 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythGetting reply letters from my Congresscritters. Because the replies are form letters, that utterly ignore most of what I said, in favor of talking points and lies. In this case, at two different points, I sent two different letters to my Senator about the craptacular bankruptcy bill. Today, I got two letters from him in reply... that were identical. Yeah, I know, Senators are busy, can't reply to everything, yadda yadda yadda. But the form letters only address like, two of the points I mentioned, over both letters.
The lesson, of course, is that if you're in the minority in your state, and your state's a "safe" seat, Congresscritters don't give a flying fuck what you want. They're too busy pandering to their contributors and the 50%+1 or so that elected them. Mostly their contributors, in this case. Also, given that my congresscritters are Republicans, in a "safe" southernish state, I don't think there's been more than...once when they agreed with me about anything I sent them letters about, and never that I've gotten anything other than a form letter that ignored what I wrote. Besides the whole voting in a block with social reactionaries and big businesses and against, well, everybody else. Writing to them as "the honorable" always makes me snort derisively. Yeah. So honorable they've been trying to deny the fact that US troops have been and still are torturing people in many places across the world. Because that'd be undermining our President and not supporting the troops, and the terrorists would win, dontchaknow?
Tags: Politics, Mindscribbles, Writing
The lesson, of course, is that if you're in the minority in your state, and your state's a "safe" seat, Congresscritters don't give a flying fuck what you want. They're too busy pandering to their contributors and the 50%+1 or so that elected them. Mostly their contributors, in this case. Also, given that my congresscritters are Republicans, in a "safe" southernish state, I don't think there's been more than...once when they agreed with me about anything I sent them letters about, and never that I've gotten anything other than a form letter that ignored what I wrote. Besides the whole voting in a block with social reactionaries and big businesses and against, well, everybody else. Writing to them as "the honorable" always makes me snort derisively. Yeah. So honorable they've been trying to deny the fact that US troops have been and still are torturing people in many places across the world. Because that'd be undermining our President and not supporting the troops, and the terrorists would win, dontchaknow?
Tags: Politics, Mindscribbles, Writing
