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The squeaky wheel gets the grease - contact your representatives. If you contact them about an issue enough they’ll actually get in touch and ask for your input
by elliekelly 6y ago
The squeaky wheel gets the grease - contact your representatives. If you contact them about an issue enough they’ll actually get in touch and ask for your input when the issue finally starts getting traction.
I think it goes without saying but they’re far more likely to listen if you’re polite and suggest possible solutions instead of just complaining.
- karmelapple 6y agoSpecifically: call them on the phone. Go to town halls if / when they have them. And vote.
- alpha_squared 6y agoThis implies absolute faith in the system. What if the system is flawed or corrupt?
- rabidrat 6y agoThen we have to figure out how to use whatever power we have within this corrupt system to decorrupt it. The "fun" answer, to burn the system down, does not leave a better system in its place. The individual components are left to scramble to develop their own systems, which in the absence of strong moral leadership, are inevitably just as as corrupt as the larger system they came from.
- mistermann 6y agoAre you aware of any noteworthy initiatives underway to decorrupt the system though? I often read that this is "just" all we have to do, but who's going to do it? "The System"? Democracy? AI? Rationalism? Religion? Our moms?
- 3131s 6y agoI'm glad that the Minneapolis folks have skipped this completely useless advice.
- ohazi 6y ago> contact your representatives In California, the correct answer would have been to fucking vote out Feinstein. She practically built the surveillance state.