Have you ever tried to round up a bunch of feral cats ?
In efforts to get those in the chronic pain community to organize and commit to a common action.. I am not sure that rounding up feral cats wouldn’t be a lot easier.
The last Presidential election there was 126 million votes cast and five million separated the winner from the loser.. it is also stated that there was 106 million eligible voters.. that did not vote… strangely the number in the same range as the number of estimated chronic pain pts.
For over 100 years Congress has been laying the ground work for starting and escalating the war on drugs… the war on drugs has escalated to the point where it is more a war on docs and pts than the original drug cartels targets.
You can blame or exonerate the Obama administration for the acceleration of the war on docs and pts, but the facts are is that it was dramatically ramp up during the 2009-2011 time frame.
There is no reason for all chronic painers failing to vote… you can register by mail… you can vote by mail.. unless you are totally immobilized to the point that you can’t make it to the mail box.
Historically, 99% of those in Congress who runs for re-election .. get re-elected… and we have seen during this primary season just how entitled the upper level seniority members of Congress believe they are. Every time an incumbent gets re-elected.. it is a mandate that what they have been doing is what they believe they should continue doing… how is that concept working for you personally ?
How many of you have signed petition, wrote letters, emails,faxes and phone calls…and all the form letters you have received promising nothing more than to take your opinion into consideration if a vote comes up ? How is that concept working for you personally ?
First the chronic pain community needs to organize and “VOTE THE BUMS OUT”
Once they are voted out… then we start a communication campaign using the above graphics… Make it a email, a fax, a postcard, a letter.. use your own words on it… but.. basically state .. you wouldn’t listen to our needs.. so we have kicked your ass out of office..
Then once their replacement gets into office… we start a communication campaign… Get the DEA out of practicing medicine… DEFUND the DEA… ENFORCE the ADA.. we put you in office.. and in two years… if you ignore us as your predecessor did… don’t even both running a re-election campaign..
If the chronic pain community cannot accomplish this… then either there are not 106 million chronic painers or they are more like feral cats than people are tired of being treated like addicts/junkies/criminals.
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Love it! I have long voted against incumbents in elections. However, it seems to do no good. I get so tired of making phone calls, writing letters, and yes, even voting, and nothing ever changes. All I ever hear is We The People will institute their term limits by voting them out of office . . . and then they get re-elected. Why? How?
Great post!
Agreed, every single one of needs to vote. We CAN’T just check the boxes Democrat or Republican because it’s easy. We all must vote the opponents in and those seeking re-election out. Send the message that we are tired of being alienated by our government and that we will no longer stand for it. IF YOU ARE NOT REGISTERED, REGISTER. Vote for who ever you want for president, but vote for the other guys when it comes to senators and congressmen on both federal and state tickets. Only we can stop the screwing we are all getting now.