Why does it seem like way too many of our representatives are unconcerned

[onecaliberal]

With the lives of their constituents? They don’t care if people can’t feed their children. They don’t care that people can’t afford or do not have access to healthcare. They don’t care that 2 people need 2 or 3 jobs each to raise a family?

Bipartisanship doesn’t mean 100 people in a governing body, it means a plurality of the country. It’s been a nice little experiment, shameful what has been allowed to happen to it.

[H2O Man]

1. Recommended.

Why, it is almost like there is class warfare going on, but it is impolite for the non-wealthy to recognize it.

[onecaliberal]

4. Mind numbing and exhausting being ruled by such inhumane stupidity

[ms liberty]

12. And so ungrateful if they stopped being so easily divided. Not helpful of them at all. n/t

[SoonerPride]

2. Because we are not their constituents

Their constituents are the rich and corporations who give them money

[pazzyanne]

11. + 1 nt

[onecaliberal]

16. 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[hibbing]

24. +1

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. Because they're doing quite well,

as are the billionaires and corporations that own them.

[Mr.Bill]

27. You have to ask yourself

how someone makes a salary in the low six figures for 10 years or so and has a net worth in the tens of millions of dollars. Not all of them but enough of them to show that path is available to them.

[dawg]

5. Other than Manchin and Sinema, who ya' talking about?

I see the vast majority of Democrats attempting to pass legislation that would make a real difference.

My family got $5600 from the American Rescue Plan Act. Lots of other people got even more help than that.

We have already achieved far more for the American People that I originally thought would be possible when President Biden was elected. (And my Georgia Dems deserve much of the credit for that!)

[onecaliberal]

6. There are others who have come out against getting rid of the filibuster.

Google is your friend.

[dawg]

13. We can pass legislation right now without eliminating the filibuster.

We have already done so.

If you want to harp on that one issue, I pretty much agree with you. But that is a far cry from your OP, that speaks of being "unconcerned with the lives of their constituents."

[onecaliberal]

14. If they WERE actually concerned they would support the legislation that addresses the problem.

The problems are many and vast.

[dawg]

18. We're working on a massive infrastructure bill that includes billions for "human" infrastructure ...

We're attempting to extend the extra child credits we just passed a few months ago. Families will start receiving montly payments of the additional credits this July.

This Administration is accomplishing more than anyone realistically had a right to expect.

Yes, there are a few dead-weight Democrats who aren't helping. But they are few, and they mostly come from districts that a liberal or progressive would have a hard time winning anyway.

[onecaliberal]

19. At the risk of redundancy. A bill that 2 dem senators do not support without

Republicans. The offer from republicans on Infrastructure was rejected by President Biden. Republicans are not serious and everyone knows it. I’m tired of brining a butter knife to and AK-47 fight. McConnell said he will block EVERYTHING. Manchin is his ace in the hole.

[dawg]

20. No doubt Manchin is a pain in the ass and will limit what we can accomplish, but I was expecting ...

complete partisan gridlock. Never in a million years did I expect my state to elect two Democratic Senators in a runoff election.

We will get more things accomplished and they will help millions of Americans. Will the help be diminished because of Manchin and Sinema? Yes. But that won't stop lots of good things from happening.

[onecaliberal]

21. Your state passed legislation that gives the

Republican controlled legislature to overturn the will of the people if they don’t like who voters choose.

[dawg]

30. My point being that we've got at least two years to pass legislation thanks to the two ...

Senators from Georgia.

Had we not won those seats, Manchin would be irrelevant.

And, for what it's worth, I don't believe the new Georgia law gives the legislature the right to overturn an election, but many Republican state legislators in different states all across the country already claim they have that right. This is why we need to focus on unseating as many Republican state legislators as we can.

Taking back state houses is how we finally bring this long national nightmare to an end.

[onecaliberal]

31. I hear you. It wasn't on my bingo card.

The next election is 2022. We could lose the house per senate or both. So we don’t have 2 years. The only thing gotten done so far is the rescue plan. We need to get the voting rights and infrastructure or we are fucked.

[dawg]

32. We'll get 75% of infrastructure. We won't get voting rights. No sense in pretending.

If we hold the House and pickup two seats in the Senate, we can probably get voting rights in 2023. It'll be a hard pull but not impossible.

All we have to do is to show up like we did in 2020.

They'll make voting harder, but I'd crawl over broken glass to vote against these Republicans, and I think many of us feel the same.

[onecaliberal]

33. That's what we told everyone in 2020.

If we just get the majority we will do A,B, C. The problem is some senators were not honest about their lack of support on many of those policies.

[jalan48]

7. It's a great gig with lots of perks and the potential for making big bucks when it ends.

[KPN]

8. K&R ... simply stated, nailed on the head.

They (too many) don't care.

[Autumn]

9. Because they are safe, they are free from need. They know that they will get whatever

they need for themselves and their famlies.

[Nexus2]

10. To put it simply, because many of them don't care. The reasons vary, but that's the core of it.[nt]

[dlk]

15. The obscene amounts of money required to successfully run for office has corrupted the entire proces

We get what the wealthy and connected pay for. It’s as simple as that.

[DownriverDem]

17. My rep

is Debbie Dingell and she is very concerned.

[onecaliberal]

22. Funny, I don't recall saying ALL, but simply some.

[Traildogbob]

23. Like Rubio

Bitching people will not take minimum paying jobs because of the $300 giveaway.
They would rather take government money, sit on their asses and do nothing.
That sounds more like congress to me. Why get a job you actually have to work at when you can get $175,000+-, to sit on your ass, do nothing but be a puppet for billionaires with perks no working person would ever imagine.
Instead of cutting the $300 unemployment for poor folks, let’s cut congressional pay down to working people levels, say $40,000 a year, without insurance and the ability to be fired for lies, theft and no fucking NOT working. That would draw in people that know how to actually work and care about folks in their situation.

[Traildogbob]

25. Oh

And throw in no retirement package for congress as well.

[onecaliberal]

26. This is the best idea I have heard in a very long time.

Sadly they vote for their own pay. Nice work if you can get it. Hell will freeze before they’d ever do that.

[Traildogbob]

29. I know!

We can have fantasies too, can’t we.

[peppertree]

28. Well, not everyone can live off the drug racket, Paul Singer, and lobbyist bribes

To say nothing of exotic dancing - although those days are certainly behind him.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

34. They don't care that 20% of American children go to bed hungry each night.

This is in a country that throws away 40% of its usable food each day.

[JohnnyRingo]

35. They care during the campaign

It's in the speeches how they work tirelessly for each and every one.
Then they go back to their obstructionist jobs.

[Bristlecone]

36. Book deals, healthcare for life, TV spots, lucrative lobby jobs, high paying board memberships

The list is long, but money in politics - before, during, and after is the answer IMO.

[onecaliberal]

39. It makes sense they would not want to hurt their chances of

Landing something lucrative when they’re done in government. Talk about something the founder NEVER intended.

[Wild blueberry]

37. Gerrymandering

Wisconsin here. We had Sean Duffy (ugh) and now Tom Tiffany (puke) for Congress, in what was Dave Obey's district before 2010 fine-tooth-comb gerrymandering done in secret by expensive law firm (yep, paid by taxpayers) for GQP majority in legislature (during Scott Walker's reign). They don't care. They don't have to. They keep getting re-elected regardless of what they do (or not) for their constituents.
Also, our state assembly representative Swearingen and state senator Felskowski don't care about us. They did NOTHING to fight Covid, just obstruct our excellent Governor Evers at every turn. And pass voter-suppression and anti-trans kids bills and screw our public schools. Their aides don't even listen to our calls or emails anymore, let alone respond.
Finally, all Senator MoRon Johnson cares about is whether he'll be primaried by an even crazier Q-tip (if that is possible) in 2022.

On the bright side, WisDems have never been more fired up and ready to go!

[dweller]

38. And yet

WE keep voting for them … at least at this point, who knows what 2022 will bring?
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