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Originally Posted by Sparks
I've written in to my representatives numerous times. I highly doubt my comments were even read, despite the canned responses you always recieve that say otherwise.
I also have serious trouble believing that political parties are at all interested in petitions. When did a petition affect policy? As for community groups, etc, what are people supposed to do? Maybe if you made it a full time job, you could get some media exposure. How many people have that much time on their hands?
It's hard not to feel jaded about the whole process.
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I agree it's hard not to feel jaded. However if I could somehow find out for sure, and not just what people say, I would wager that you are one of the very few that actually do contact their reps. I believe you cause you said you always vote, so I believe you take the process seriously.
I dunno, I just find it silly that people don't care about something people in the other parts of the world put their life on the line and die for. Yeah often the choices suck, but voting is the least we can do. If the choices and the system really suck that much, it should mean you should be doing MORE for the process, not less.
As I said, people around the world die for this privledge. All we have to do is pick up the phone or take a little stroll.