It's obviously important for elected officials to be accountable to voters. However, if I had a job where it took a bunch of strangers calling my office and telling me how to do things for me to make good choices, it would be fair to say I was bad at that job. - ThreadSky

joshgondelman.bsky.social • 4 days ago

It's obviously important for elected officials to be accountable to voters. However, if I had a job where it took a bunch of strangers calling my office and telling me how to do things for me to make good choices, it would be fair to say I was bad at that job.

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captfamous.bsky.social•4 days ago

In their mind they are good at their jobs because they got elected and that's the only thing that matters

russbengtson.bsky.social•4 days ago

politicians are like dogs that you have to firmly say "no!" every time they try and get on the couch, this is the best system in the world

russbengtson.bsky.social•4 days ago

should have been a "to" in there but you get it

rsgat.bsky.social•4 days ago

The wildest part, and I say this as a local elected official, is that often, all it takes to change politicians' minds is to get calls from a tiny, unrepresentative sampling of their constituency.

joshgondelman.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is what I often hear!!!

faqrules.bsky.social•4 days ago

I would add, how many times has calling their offices lead to change Vs. times it hasn’t?

The problem ain’t “Politicians don’t know what we want!” The problem is “Politicians don’t give a shit about the people who are complaining.” If they did, they already would have done the thing!

cjbrowne.bsky.social•4 days ago

Listening to those calls IS the job

dogsdadbod.bsky.social•4 days ago

Unless the job is to not make those good choices and merely to provide cover for the bad choices

normcharlatan.bsky.social•4 days ago

Isn’t this just crowd work?

normcharlatan.bsky.social•4 days ago

Amy Klobuchar DESTROYS two constituents.

radhas.bsky.social•4 days ago

Because the tyranny of the masses is real, awful and dangerous, we should elect to office people who can think long term, and act for the good of their voters, and who can also communicate their choices in a way that voters understand. How many of those true leaders do we have?

jeezus-mcgeezus.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s almost as if they could be….proactively asking their constituents what their goals are. 🤔🤔🤔

I am fully on the sarcasm train tonight.

thedimpsler.bsky.social•3 days ago

People get madder at quarterbacks for not being able to make good decisions about who to pass to while ten 300 pound musclemen try to legally get away with killing them than they do the people that pretty literally decide if they live or die.

rubixkubis.bsky.social•3 days ago

I keep seeing people posting “You have to CALL your reps. They ignore emails.” And if I ignored emails at the job I’m paid to do, I would be fired. MY GOD.

jamiestl.bsky.social•3 days ago

One of my Senators, if there’s too many calls, system tells you to call again and hangs up. No option for voicemail, nothing.

I have to call his smaller offices to even get voicemail.

rubixkubis.bsky.social•3 days ago

INFURIATING.

hmsbluebird.bsky.social•3 days ago

Preach!

ruthmensch.bsky.social•4 days ago

so many people to primary

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