What is the best way to make politicians in Washington respect your vote?

[kentuck]

Your help is deeply appreciated.

[Jamastiene]

1. In primaries, vote for who you KNOW will fight for you and shares your values

Unless the candidate the party leadership urges you to vote for really is a good one, vote for the one you really want instead.

Our power is really in who we choose in the primaries. Until we get that and proceed accordingly, we will continue to be disappointed.

[niyad]

2. at this point, unless a donation comes with a whole lot of zeroes before that decimal, they don't

give a damn.

[LearnedHand]

3. (other) Become a multinational corporation

:sarcasm:

[bemildred]

4. Send them lots of money. nt

[metapunditedgy]

5. It's not about votes anymore. Those can be easily bought, or manufactured if necessary.

The only way to get attention is to start carving up the profiteers who are exploiting us.

Stop paying back debt; mass bankruptcies for people who are deeply underwater.

Labor strikes, not just by blue-collar workers, but by tech workers as well.

Mass "violation" of arbitrary "property-rights" laws... expose company secrets, free up information.

Keep this up until guilty parties are thrown in jail with long-term sentences.

Good luck playing "discontented voter" while USA, Incorporated has billions of dollars in reserve to confuse people and buy votes.

Etc.

[metapunditedgy]

6. Oh yeah, and start protesting right on the doorsteps of these animals

who steal trillions from taxpayers to fund their walled compounds. They're welcome to take their "talent" and leave America at any time, in my book. (But leave the dollars they stole back here.)

[HillbillyBob]

7. They will just have Blackwater re-enact Nisoor squar, Bhagdad

and or triple canopy or anyone of how many mercenary armies of kkkreestians.

[Cronus Protagonist]

8. General Strike

Works well in other countries, so maybe it would work well here. That would get a lot of corporations whining to the government and it would remind the government of the source of their money - the labor of we, the REAL people.

[pamela]

9. Become a teabagger.

Dems and Repubs seem to be bending over backwards to show their respect for that sorry assed group of ignorant trash.

[leftstreet]

10. General Strike n/t

[salguine]

11. I'd have said marching, but that's not enough. Smashing. Burning. Beheading?

[scheming daemons]

12. Step 1: Become CEO of a major corporation....

Step 2: There is no step 2