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   BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 01:49:56 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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   • volkris
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   • Rasta
   @volkris @sj_zero @Rasta @Free_Press Insert Princeton study that says voter will has basically zero impact on representative positions here
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     volkris@qoto.org's status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 01:49:57 JST volkris

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     @sj_zero but in the end, no matter how or why a representative votes the way he might, his voters that probably reelected him are affirming that yes, he did right, he deserves to go back and keep doing what he’s doing.

     We must not get lost in the drama to the point that we forget that we vote for our reps. We empower whatever it is they’re doing.

     @Rasta @Free_Press

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     I was listening to a representative who had a show talking about how you get up there, and instead of representing the people who voted for you, you're expected to vote the way some expert in the capitol says you should vote.
     
     But the capitol has its representatives. Let them vote the way the experts in the capitol say to!
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     volkris@qoto.org's status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 01:49:59 JST volkris

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     @Rasta

     Well, I’d grind my own ax some more here :)

     The job of Congress is for 530+ individual members to show up and represent concerns of their own voters and build compromise and consensus about what the US government should be doing, whatever concerns those may be.

     BUT all too often people are ignoring their own representatives and voting for people who are doing the opposite of what they’d have them do.

     Whether voters want their congressperson to be talking about infrastructure or books, well it’s up to them, but they need to make sure their empowered person is doing what they want.

     The job of Congress is to represent the concerns of the country, whether those are my concerns or your concerns or not.

     @Free_Press