PeachPie 🍑Many West Virginians say they can’t reach their members of Congress
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MyOpinionNazis don't want to hear from you.
ScrubblesThey don’t need real voters anymore. They will buy votes, gerrymander and mediabomb until they get the desired result. Why should they return the calls of those plebs?
West Virginia was one of the reddest states last election, yet 28% voted Harris.
Those people are suffering on a scale most Americans don't experience. Of course they're going for the "brick through the wall" option. Think you're better? Are you there?
If you want to judge, take an hour and look inside West Virginia. Got the time to judge? I've watched, I've cried. You? No? Then go fuck yourself.
I'm sure they had very understandable reasons for why it was very attractive to them to cast a vote helping to suck the entire rest of the nation (along with themselves) into a fascist regime hellbent on dismantling our government and creating the sort of dystopian hellhole normally reserved for comic book fiction. (and not a lick of bigotry)
Doesn't matter now, I, and probably you unless you are uncommonly young even for Lemmy, will die of old age before we've made the U-turn from what they have enabled, if we've even begun it at that point. My kids lives are irrevocably impacted by what has been empowered by Trump voters, and so are yours (if you have or will have them), and so are those of the Trump voters.
And how many years have they been red? You'd think if it's that bad maybe they'd try something different instead of dragging the rest of us down with them.They elected the man whose tax cuts only help you in upper tax brackets and actually cost lower tax brackets more. They actively rejected the party that wants to provide social services for people in need (because some brown or trans people might also be helped, best as I can tell), and elected the party that wants to defund literally everything except defense and secret police.
I don't have much sympathy for the folks who decided to inflict that on the rest of us, and I doubt the 28% who voted Harris have much sympathy for their fellow West Virginians, either.
CMLVIPart of it is there was some very real backstabbing done by the Dems with Bernie and Hillary in 2016. He won literally every county in the state in 2016 and they sent super delegates to the Convention and gave the state to Hillary, 19-18. It doesn't excuse selling out the country for spite, but there is a very real thing perpetrated on WV voters by Democratic supporters. And we used to be a sorta blue state, up until that time.
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ArxCyberwolfI've looked through many towns in WV while exploring railways and other stuff on Streetview, and it's a genuinely depressing place. So many half abandoned, run down towns with overgrown houses that have random junk and like broken 5 cars sitting on the lawn. When the industry packed up and left, these people were left with nothing and can't afford to leave.
Through gerrymandering voters no longer pick their representatives, instead representatives pick their voters.
That's why they don't care about constituent's opinions.
Though gerrymandering works best when people are apathetic, but if they are not it can backfire. I hope it will backfire.
The other way a partisan gerrymander can backfire is that there’s fewer truly safe seats. So a smaller shift can cause a wave election. Like, to squeeze every drop from a gerrymander, you don’t create 80% GOP, 20% Dem districts; you make several 55% GOP, 45% Dem districts. It doesn’t take as seismic of a shift to flip an aggressively Gerrymandered map.
Time to show up at their house?...
knock knock
Hi, your extended car warranty has expired, would you care to talk to your constituents about it? Pst... thats me.
makes awkward eye contact with them
In the fine article people were at the home of their representative.
One way ticket to criminal trespass I'm sure
Depends on how exactly the person approaches the house. If they go up and just start screaming in their face, they could probably be trespassed, but there's this legal principle known as "implied license," which essentially just means that if you have a way to enter your property, you've sort of implied that you're allowing people to go there for legitimate purposes, such as getting your attention, delivering mail, soliciting (unless a sign specifies otherwise), etc.
So even if they had a sign saying "no tresspassing," if their neighbor were to walk over and knock on their door to let them know their back gate was left open, that wouldn't be tresspassing, because it's implied that they still are allowing people to walk on the footpath to their door, to get their attention for any purpose deemed reasonable or legitimate.
As a public servant, someone coming up to your door and trying to tell you something, or a journalist coming up to ask you some questions, could very well be considered covered by implied license, and thus not tresspassing, though I'm sure the courts would have to debate that a lot to actually determine if that's the case given the situation.
Counterpoint - Castle Doctrine. Hard to defend yourself with Implied License when you're full of buckshot.
Countercounterpoint - Siege Doctrine. Kinda hard to be a cowardly cunt and fill folks with buckshot when grapeshot is being unloaded into your house.
If these gormless cowards keep hiding they've quite frankly have willingly given up their privileges to life.
K, but the laws don't matter anymore to anybody in government. So, why would I care about a little trespassing?
Because you're poor, and laws still apply to you.
Nah, if they don't care, I don't either.
My dad has lived in WV his whole life. He’s sadly been a lifelong GOP supporter but hasn’t fully drank the MAGA kool-aid thankfully. I say all this because he hated Robert C Byrd with a passion but I’ll be damned if Byrd or someone from his office didn’t respond to my dad when he wrote letters or called his office.
Now GOP voters can’t even reach the numbskulls that they voted for.
(Byrd was a Democrat, for those who needed the context like I did)
^^ Thank you - that is important context actually.
You can’t be a GOP and not be drinking the koolaid in 2025.
My dad doesn’t like Trump, gets vaccinated, and his best friend is the nephew of labor organizer Walter Reuther (that friend is a staunch democrat). But, he dislikes all democrats more than he dislikes Trump because he believes that all democrats want to raise his taxes. Classify that however you want.
Did he cast a vote for Trump?
He did. And in the last three presidential elections, I voted for Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton and I dislike all three of them and I dislike the democrats.
People contain multitudes and don’t always fit neatly into the boxes that society tries to put them in.
Sure they do. He’s a MAGA. He votes for convicted rapists.
I mean no offense to you, but your dad is a bad person.
And you formed a strong opinion on someone you’ve never met, based on one thing. I don’t mean any offense but that’s the sort of thing a bad person does.
What were his thoughts on Richard Ojeda?
I’m not sure, I moved away before he became a politician and I’ve never heard my dad mention his name. Knowing that he supported the teacher’s strike in 2018 and ran as a democrat, I’m sure my dad didn’t like him. Like I said, he’s life long GOP just not MAGA.
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Well, when they voted Democrat they got Joe Manchin.
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Have the day you voted for. You think they give a shit about you?
I came here to say something along those lines, but you beat me to it. I might have also made a passing reference to leopards.
I mean I generally like what my member of congress does, but same
Recall them.
Go to their house and make them pay attention.