My Take Is That Protests Won't Do Any Good In The End. US As We Know It Will Be Smoldering Ruins.

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19. From whom are you getting no response?

Bennet's office answers the phone, every time. I get responses about a week later (they're canned, but they're responding.) Polis responds every time. DeGette and Perlmutter respond. (I don't know about the others because they're not mine and I mostly don't follow their response rates.) Hick and the whole Dem Congressional have publicly made statements on every issue, and they've been in line with Dem position. Polis' calendar sucks, but Bennet's is pretty good and they're in state on a regular basis. What more do you want from them? That's not rhetorical -- what need are they not fulfilling?

Who is being the problem? Gardner? Coffman? Buck? What do you expect? They're spineless cowards and always have been. Just keep calling their local offices and showing up at their events. The more often they behave badly, the better. We want them looking like the pond scum they are. We want them sneaking out the back door and getting caught.

Who's been arresting? There are means of demonstrating that don't bring arrests. Stand across the street from the office. That's more visible anyway. It's more useful to turn their electorate against them and bring out the less than regular voters.

I know venting feels good. But the problem is that it doesn't accomplish anything. (Note that there's no other emotion that requires venting -- you don't have to bleed off excess joy or elation.) Venting without a strategic or tactical action is just spreading frustration and demoralization.

Let's talk about who is being a specific problem, what exactly they're doing, and get to work on strategy. We may have to write off the R side of our slate, other than remaining a gadfly, and focus on state, county and city level issues with the state Rs, while supporting our D slate.