I have written my congresspeople, and my state legislators, about pretty much every hot button issue for years. You know what it does? Add one more person worth of 'your constituents are angry you are/aren't doing X'. That's useful sometimes, but it won't get you change, not nationally. Not even if everyone wrote every senator.
It can get you small things, sometimes. But usually, it changes nothing but making them a little more afraid of the vote next time. It may have made a difference awhile ago, but now that most of the things are form letters they receive, I doubt it's given that much heed outside of the few congresspeople who have bragged about reading all of theirs. They probably read a tenth.
The right wing is in part successful because the local party works hand in glove with it's local and federal legislators, it's law firms and it's think tanks and whatever else. It is not because people on the right write to their senators more. This should be obvious but somehow it keeps being ignored.
There are much better things you can be doing with your time. I write to inform them, the times I do write, hoping maybe an aide will be able to say something in a hallway. But I do not delude myself that it has high chances to do even that -- Politician's stances are fixed, generally, unless you can make them see you through some form of disruption, large gathering/rally, or protest that forces the media to care for a bit, even if to vilify you.
And everything else has so much inertia that the only way it changes is by it becoming politically embarassing instead of just a thing people are angry about, no matter how injust it is.
Change isn't coming from the people already there. And it's not really coming through elections, not federally. So focus on community -- people and movement -- instead, since, well, that's our only hope.






