Do you feel adequately represented in D.C.?

[Anonymous]

The chaos crucible on Pennsylvania Avenue keeps churning out unprecedented actions. Congress wanders aimlessly through their sessions. Senators grandstand on CNN and MS Now. Nothing changes.

Are you feeling adequately represented?

[Anonymous]

Oh, is this the thread where we distract from Trump’s fascism by making people complain about the minority in Congress? Nice try.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh, is this the thread where we distract from Trump’s fascism by making people complain about the minority in Congress? Nice try.

So you feel your elected representatives are doing enough?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh, is this the thread where we distract from Trump’s fascism by making people complain about the minority in Congress? Nice try.

So you feel your elected representatives are doing enough?

I feel that you want people complaining anything besides Donald Trump. That’s why you started this thread after pulling the same stunt in the thread about ICE.

Be less transparent.

[Anonymous]

A huge percentage of posters here don’t even have a voting representative in Congress at all, so you’re definitely barking up the wrong tree.

My Congressman is Jamie Raskin who has done and is doing more than enough under the circumstances, thank you very much.

[Anonymous]

No, but I am a DC resident.

That said, the Majority in the House represents 45% of the voting public.

The Majority in the senate represents 43% of the voting public.

Given the president won with a plurality and not majority of votes, our government right now is a minority government. We have a structural imbalance given gerrymandering, the electoral college and the way the Senate is formed.

[Anonymous]

NO! DC residents have no meaningful voting rights. DC born and raised here. I was born disenfranchised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh, is this the thread where we distract from Trump’s fascism by making people complain about the minority in Congress? Nice try.

So you feel your elected representatives are doing enough?

I feel that you want people complaining anything besides Donald Trump. That’s why you started this thread after pulling the same stunt in the thread about ICE.

Be less transparent.

I took the suggestion of taking the conversation elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NO! DC residents have no meaningful voting rights. DC born and raised here. I was born disenfranchised.

You know you can fix this by moving 10 miles or so in any direction, right? It’s not like the rules were changed on you after you settled there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NO! DC residents have no meaningful voting rights. DC born and raised here. I was born disenfranchised.

You know you can fix this by moving 10 miles or so in any direction, right? It’s not like the rules were changed on you after you settled there.

Do you know why there are two dakotas? Or why the dakotas, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho are 5 states instead of one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NO! DC residents have no meaningful voting rights. DC born and raised here. I was born disenfranchised.

You know you can fix this by moving 10 miles or so in any direction, right? It’s not like the rules were changed on you after you settled there.

PP literally just said they were born here. Reading comprehension.

But in general, “just move” is also a crappy response to someone pointing out problems. Where does it end? Should everyone with concerns about US politics, on either side, leave the country because there are some things in our system that need fixing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NO! DC residents have no meaningful voting rights. DC born and raised here. I was born disenfranchised.

You know you can fix this by moving 10 miles or so in any direction, right? It’s not like the rules were changed on you after you settled there.

PP literally just said they were born here. Reading comprehension.

But in general, “just move” is also a crappy response to someone pointing out problems. Where does it end? Should everyone with concerns about US politics, on either side, leave the country because there are some things in our system that need fixing?

Well, multiple Democrat administrations (Clinton, Obama, Biden) with Democrat
Congresses failed to do anything about this. In fact, they didn’t even try. Why? Because the rest of the country just doesn’t care, and that’s not going to change. So actually, “just move” is the only practical option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NO! DC residents have no meaningful voting rights. DC born and raised here. I was born disenfranchised.

You know you can fix this by moving 10 miles or so in any direction, right? It’s not like the rules were changed on you after you settled there.

PP literally just said they were born here. Reading comprehension.

But in general, “just move” is also a crappy response to someone pointing out problems. Where does it end? Should everyone with concerns about US politics, on either side, leave the country because there are some things in our system that need fixing?

Well, multiple Democrat administrations (Clinton, Obama, Biden) with Democrat
Congresses failed to do anything about this. In fact, they didn’t even try. Why? Because the rest of the country just doesn’t care, and that’s not going to change. So actually, “just move” is the only practical option.

requires 60 votes in the senate unless there is no more filibuster....has nothing to do with wanting to try.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NO! DC residents have no meaningful voting rights. DC born and raised here. I was born disenfranchised.

You know you can fix this by moving 10 miles or so in any direction, right? It’s not like the rules were changed on you after you settled there.

PP literally just said they were born here. Reading comprehension.

But in general, “just move” is also a crappy response to someone pointing out problems. Where does it end? Should everyone with concerns about US politics, on either side, leave the country because there are some things in our system that need fixing?

Well, multiple Democrat administrations (Clinton, Obama, Biden) with Democrat
Congresses failed to do anything about this. In fact, they didn’t even try. Why? Because the rest of the country just doesn’t care, and that’s not going to change. So actually, “just move” is the only practical option.

requires 60 votes in the senate unless there is no more filibuster....has nothing to do with wanting to try.

Whatever, did even get out of the House, when and where? Democrats have never put any serious effort behind this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NO! DC residents have no meaningful voting rights. DC born and raised here. I was born disenfranchised.

You know you can fix this by moving 10 miles or so in any direction, right? It’s not like the rules were changed on you after you settled there.

PP literally just said they were born here. Reading comprehension.

But in general, “just move” is also a crappy response to someone pointing out problems. Where does it end? Should everyone with concerns about US politics, on either side, leave the country because there are some things in our system that need fixing?

Well, multiple Democrat administrations (Clinton, Obama, Biden) with Democrat
Congresses failed to do anything about this. In fact, they didn’t even try. Why? Because the rest of the country just doesn’t care, and that’s not going to change. So actually, “just move” is the only practical option.

requires 60 votes in the senate unless there is no more filibuster....has nothing to do with wanting to try.

Whatever, did even get out of the House, when and where? Democrats have never put any serious effort behind this.

There was actually a pretty big push for this in 2021. There’s a long thread about those efforts in the local politics section. It was one of the things that was run over by Manchin and Sinema’s refusal to engage with any discussion of modifying the filibuster in the Senate.