General Discussion

...but you have to actually go look to see their messaging.

Many people who don't look any farther than their own antipathies to see what Democrats are actually doing might not know that most Democrats, especially the leadership, is engaged in a daily budget fight right now, as well as blocking and opposing other legislative attempts by republicans in committee and on the floor.

Some stone-throwers from the outside believe that legislators have as much time as they do for performative political acts which are presumably intended to influence the very people bashing Democrats to exercise THEIR OWN responsibility to oppose the REPUBLICANS in power and control with phone calls and other appeals.

The presumption here is that Dems protesting is going to influence voters, right? In an off-election year? What is the actual value in that, compared to the actual work they do in the Capitol to influence legislation. You know, the place where they do the job they were elected for?

There's advocacy right there in the congressional record for us to post and promote, almost every legislator has a political operation with many posting daily to their own youtube accounts, But people treat work in Congress like it's some abstraction to our politics, instead of it's lifeblood.

So much emphasis here on the theater that it obscures and diminishes the fact that our Democrats are the ONLY people in the rooms where these republican bills are being processed and voted on. That the most important work that they do, outside of winning their own elections.

I do understand though, why people who don't hold that responsibility feel free to practice and promote the performative stuff.

But elected Dems have day jobs which, during periods like budget time are more consequential than just worrying over influencing someone on the internet to advocate against republicans; something basic and obvious in which they shouldn't need Congressfolk to motivate them.