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Hey, crazy question for any lemmings here whose Senator was one of the 8 who voted to end the shutdown:
Did ANY of you email your senator and tell them you fully support the shutdown and urge them to never give in until the health care provision was fixed?
Everyone in here bitching about Senators taking money, or both parties being the same, all the typical brain dead bullshit the keyboard politicos blather, did ANY of you contact your Senators and make your voice heard?
Don't bother replying. We all know the answer.
EDIT: Keep the downvotes coming, believers of our weakness! You've convinced me, we are all powerless!! Let's just complain all day in lemmy comments how the system is rigged and we have no power, downvote me if you agree! LONG LIVE APATHY! WE ARE THE WEAK AND POWERLESS!
Yes, I did in fact call both of my senators. Neither was one of the eight, but I told them to strongly urge their colleagues not to make this deal.
Your cynical assumptions about what people did or did not do are pointless. Go do something yourself and quit making up shit to chastise others for.
Oh right, because you did, all the other lemmings did as well, right? Please, spare me your righteous indignation. You actually think ALL the people constantly complaining how the system is rigged there's nothing that can be done, and all the BOTH SIDES SAME arguments seen in the majority of comments here, you think that these indicate lemmy is full of people who actively engage with their representatives? lol
See all the other replies to my comment to see examples of the thought processes i am referring to, of people who dont contact their reps.