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Many West Virginians say they can’t reach their members of Congress
(mountainstatespotlight.org)
they'll keep voting for republicans though.
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2025
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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.
Across the street was the house of Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va. The imposing brick home was darkened, the curtains were drawn. No car was visible in the driveway. But for the assembled, it was a last ditch effort to get some kind of attention from the Congresswoman.
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?
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.
I don’t need to meet a person to know that if they vote for Project 2025 they’re a bad person. And you know this.
Was he a bad person when he was working as a nurse for 45 years? Was he a bad person when he moved in with his mom in his 20s to help her out when his dad died? Was he a bad person when he volunteered at twice a month at a local food shelter? Was he a bad person when he took photos for the sports teams I was on and paid for a kid’s pictures out of his own pocket because the family couldn’t afford them?
Again, you know one thing. You don’t know why he voted that way, I said before, he is a single issue voter, taxes, period.
Don’t bother responding, those were rhetorical questions and I’m tired of conversing with someone so close minded.
Lots of people do things that are good, but then all those things are nulled by the massive damage they do by voting for and supporting pure evil.
As the other user said, your dad is one of the “good” Nazis.
Cunts voted for republicans and they’re surprised by this?
Well, when they voted Democrat they got Joe Manchin.
I mean I generally like what my member of congress does, but same
This is DEFINITELY going to Cost those Members their Jobs! LoLoLoL!
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.
Recall them.
Go to their house and make them pay attention.