Congresswoman robbed, carjacked at gunpoint

[VanceInWA]

The question is more aimed at people who "claim" they don't like it but vote for it over and over. Like the gun owners who claim they don't like what they are seeing yet vote for it over and over again. By vote for it I mean the ones who throw away their vote and or tell anyone who will listen to them that voting is a waste of time. They are voting for what they are getting while they claim they don't like it

The real issue is not voting. Anyone who thinks their citizenship is defined by voting every two years, well to paraphrase Brandon, they ain't much of a citizen. Supposedly, if you want to know who runs the government in a democracy you're supposed to look in the mirror, but is that really true when a man or woman engages in their civic responsibility just once every 730 days? That's a level of engagement far below 1%, meaning far more than 99% of the time your government is being influenced by people smart enough to engage on a more frequent basis, even daily. THOSE are the people who are really steering democracy. They are the ones going to board and council meetings, volunteering for committees, testifying before elected officials, writing to their representatives, going door-to-door in their own neighborhood to create change, etc. Of course, the masses of people who think citizenship boils down to only voting once every two years will lay out dozens of excuses why they don't have time or energy to regularly engage in direct democracy (blah, blah, blah), and that's fine if they want to rationalize their lack of participation with excuses. Let them leave the business of government to the handful of people who choose to make a difference by actually getting engaged, but I hope they understand that by relinquishing their active role in being responsible for government they likewise relinquish the right to complain about the government they get...

 

[Alexx1401]

The real issue is not voting.

Voting well is the ONLY way this will ever change. LOT's of people like the bumper sticker slogans and they sound great. Law makers could care less about anything other than losing their job. A LOT of people want to make every excuse they can to pretend that is not how it works
In the real world when law makers start to lose elections they do not believe in the change they make or even like it BUT, they do change. They will do ANYTHING it takes to keep that job. Sadly WAY too many ignore the simple and get what they deserve every couple years. All you have to do is look at the "two weeks to flatten the curve" that has been going on for how long now? Law makers see how well this works and laugh.

 

[Hueco]

Voting well is the ONLY way this will ever change.

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