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11-28-2011, 09:20 PM
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What happens is the press assistant drafts a list of talking points for all the major issues they're receiving calls about. This gets dispersed to the staff assistants and interns, who answer the phones. If you call in reference to one of those points, you get the talking point. If you call in reference to something else, they say there's no official statement at the moment but that they can take down your opinion and pass it along if you'd like. They may even take your name and zip code, if they care enough to humor you.
That's the end of it. Nothing gets passed on. Most of the time, they're barely listening to you. Some senators from small states like an issue list with a tally of how many people called in reference to certain subjects, and what number were pro/con. But that's rare, and that's the closest you'll get to being heard. | ||
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#686
11-28-2011, 09:32 PM
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This is human nature. What we're seeing in Occupy is humanity waking up from a drugged sleep, becoming suddenly aware that we're having our kidneys stolen by financial surgeons. They tried to repeat it recently with the resurgence of pot and various "party drugs (x)," but (ironically thanks to the republicans) most people now see the danger in hard drugs, pot just makes one think about things, whereas when they inundated this countries social activism movements with cocaine in the early 70's, it made them think about fun things. Think about it. There was an entire generation of people who were just as - if not more - pissed off and ready to change the world then as we are now. Where did they go? Why did they shut up? It's super simple.. Drugs and dance music. We now call them "E-Tards," but our generation can hardly claim credit for their paradigm. A large portion of the hippie movement was influenced by mind altering drugs, which was very distracting from the plan of social activism, regardless of how these mind opening drugs allowed people to see more clearly the ugly truth around them. Intelligence being their mission, I'm sure the early 70's CIA - even without the beneficent guidance of George H. W. Bush - immediately saw the smarts in fostering this distraction. Between 1968ish and 1980, this country saw a HUGE rise in cocaine use amongst social activists. Between about 1974 and 1980, you saw the social activism movement completely die, minus a couple very intelligent O.G. punks - who nobody listened to on account of their spiky hair and bad attitudes. Say what you will, but there is no fucking way anyone will ever convince me that cocaine, the CIA (George 41), and the downfall of social activism are not connected intimately. The penultimate cap on the kibosh was effected by then-head-of-the-CIA George H. W. Bush giving the people an obviously doomed democrat for president, to be succeeded by "The George H. W. Bush Show" for the next 28 (32?) years. The backlash against liberalism in the United States was heavy-handed, short-sighted, and brutal. The "war on drugs" was costly, ineffective, and totally unnecessary. Human rights took a backseat as fundamentalist christian religious fervor became the norm across the country. Social activists, once a powerful force of political change, were marginalized in the face of NWO style, christian-right "patriotism." The next generation to grow up, in the 80s, includes many of us. Many of us were brought up with phrases like "this is a free country," and "the greatest country in the world," and ideas like "oh, that only happens in other countries." I, and many of my peers bought into it. It's comfortable, to think one is better than one's peers. Sleep is comfortable. And convenient. Sleep Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. AND THEN YOU WAKE UP AND THEY'RE STEALING YOUR KIDNEYS So now I wake up. Too little, too late. Probably. But I will now speak for the Occupiers, because now I am awake, and I see that soon there will be nobody left to speak for me.
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#687
11-28-2011, 09:35 PM
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hbb right; lacks charisma
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11-28-2011, 09:45 PM
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11-28-2011, 10:07 PM
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