the unexpected thing about Talking To Your Representatives is that it can actually work, if enough people are similarly mad about the same thing. you won’t get the elected on the phone. but they will hear about it from their annoyed staff, who might not have time to do anything else
My representative and senators are both Dark Red Republicans because I live in Texas. I promise you they could not care less what I have to think nor what the masses think because they are protected by the massive rural vote and gerrymandered to hell districts.
yeah, texas is a tough one. the republicans are working hard to make it a one-party state and it seems like they have broadly succeeded. and then there’s that fucking state electoral college they’re trying to do for statewide races which would make it all but literally a one-party state
i try to reach back to one of the inexorable lessons about being black in america, and that is you really can’t ever give up hope that things will be better. even if it looks impossible
I know this feeling. My blue Florida county is surrounded by red counties and all I’ve ever gotten from Kat Cammack or Rick Scott are form letters about how they try their best to “represent our constituents.”
