- Democracy thrives when people’s voices are heard. The easier it is for you to contact Congress, the better. It’s that simple.
Hopefully they're right, but my guess is that people in congress are just going to be bombarded (as if they already aren't) with so much crap that they aren't going to read any of it.
This is how I understand it: Every single piece of delivered communication must be read. Not necessarily read by the politician you're sending it to. That's what (some of) their staffers are for. Interns are mighty useful too. There's a whole list of things they can use to filter a piece communication so that it never reaches the politician. Threats are cataloged separately to be referred to if there's ever an incident, believable ones (assassination, bombings, etc) are followed up on immediately of course. Abusive language alone whittles it down the huge pile significantly. I don't know if they're allowed to dispose of them or if they have to keep them for $n time. If you want your letter to be ignored, this is the perfect way to achieve it. Everything else gets cataloged and analyzed for the staff to debrief the politician on what the plebs are thinking. Useful stuff that helps a political point (eg "Thank you Obama, my kid's life was saved because of the ACA!", or "I lost my house because of the banks, please help!") gets put aside as a candidate for talking points. The staffers then pick out the most well written or most poignant of these, and that's what your politician hears about or uses in speeches.they aren't going to read any of it.
These whizzbang computer thingamajigs are still mighty confusing for a lot of people. Googling is confusing as fuck. That said, their site will still be confusing to the majority of these people. And besides, overcoming apathy is easier if there are less steps, which this implies.
If voting made any difference, it'd be illegal.
dank apathy meme edit: if i had a nickel for every time i've heard this phrase on hubski, i'd have 5 nickels. if i had a nickel for every time i've heard it, i'd have at least enough to buy a bag of chips
see the thing is is that i'm not trying to make a logical argument. if i was that'd be probably pretty cutting. right now i'm trying to make fun of you because i thought that the thing you said was stupid is there an "appeal to logical fallacies" fallacy? EDIT: don't answer that that's an "answering rhetorical questions as if they were serious" fallacy
I think calling what I said was stupid is stupid all by its very ownself. There. Now we're even and both happy, Dull Spark.
you got me EDIT: to avoid another reply i can delete this if you really wanted to get the last word in