Is There Any Evidence That GOP Senators & Reps Are Even Listening. I Do Not See Evidence They Are..

[TheMastersNemesis]

I wonder if the GOP is even listening at this point. They appear to have THEIR agenda and plan to go through with it all the way no matter the protest. Ryan and McConnell certainly seem determined to force their delegation into line. They know how destructive what they want to do is and how many Americans will lose health care and even die. Yet they seem unmoved. If anything they act like they want to punish people who won't go along with them and Trump.

The arrogance and attitude coming from them regarding the town halls is astounding. The GOP seems to believe that the protesters are paid, communists, miscreants, poor losers, takers, lazy scum, et al based on statements from the Congressmen and Senators.

The electorate still has to organize and protest continuously. And what elections come along the GOP has to be rebuffed. Silence is NOT an option at this point.

The agenda of the GOP will severely damage this country for years to come if they go all they want. Even now they are in a postion to put in reactionary judges and SCOTUS to end ALL the progress since 1900. Too many voting fools gave them the power.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

1. They will only listen when their constituents turn against Trump. Especially with their polling #'s

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Even then they will still take ACA, Soc SEc and Medicare but will say they

had no choice because the democrats fucked it all up.

Their idiots will believe them.

[gratuitous]

3. They're no longer ignoring us

They're in between the stages where they laugh at us and fight us. These are necessary for the fourth stage, the one where we win.

Get people registered to vote. The plurality of eligible American voters didn't vote. Some of them were plainly apathetic. Some of them couldn't discern any difference between the major party candidates. But a lot of them were intimidated from voting, hamstrung by state-enacted restrictions on their voting rights (You think the NRA would have stood for any restriction on gun owners' rights? We have to be that zealous about securing the franchise for millions of voters.), or scared by phony "educational" 501(c)(4) organizations that kept reciting the maximum financial and prison penalties for voting illegally.

Combating voter suppression should be one of our top priorities this year and next. We've done it before, and we can do it again. A lot of people are energized and motivated who weren't interested just four months ago.

[ginnyinWI]

4. +1 . nt

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. +1

We need a massive movement to reform voting laws IMHO, including getting rid of state-level restrictions regarding convicted criminals and their voting rights when they are not incarcerated. States should not be able to arbitrarily take any citizens voting rights away nor should they make it so people can't exercise their right to vote unless incarcerated (and some countries even allow incarcerated citizens the ability to vote, which we might want to examine further as well).

[nikibatts]

9. YES!!!

[marybourg]

6. Protested in front of McCain's and Flake's offices

today. Neither of them were there AFAIK. Before I got there, I was told, a group was let into McCain's office by staff to talk about the ACA.

I was only interested is holding up my sign (and protecting myself from the already-hot sun), but I'm pretty sure no one was invited into Flake's office, but someone may correct me on that. Many of the signs were to the effect of "Looking for Flake" and "Where is Flake?"

Lots of people honked their horns. A good time was had by all.

[Eyeball_Kid]

7. Come on! The election's over! GOPers don't have to talk with voters until the next campaign

begins. That's when the money pours in from zillionaires, and that's when they devise their marketing schemes. But it's always the same. They care about you when you have something they want. Once you vote for them, they forget you. You're irrelevant.

[spanone]

8. they won and that's all they care about. that's all they've ever cared about.