Then why bother at all?
Because I have relatives and friends who actually DO have representation. So I contact them and encourage them.
The only thing I can do (and, in fact, try as often as possible) is to educate the local nationals here in the People’s Democratic Republic of MD on the virtues of conservatism and the lunacy of liberalism. Maybe some success, but maybe not.
In the meantime, though, there will be at least one family of conservatives living here: I won’t be pushed out until I am ready to leave for my own reasons.