Today will be the day that I decide if I’ve lost all faith in Congress.
(of course, Duprey is supporting a ban)
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Comments
Just a reminder: your senators and representatives are in office because people voted for them… the nice thing about representative government is that you get to vote on who decides on your laws. If you want to blame someone for the laws that your democratic government passes, blame the electorate. They’re the ones who put them there.
Of course, that leads to the argument about whether a representative should vote as he or she personally believes or as he or she believes his or her district would vote. Well, maybe the 40-50% of people who would vote in the first place.
(not that I’m bitter or anything)
People vote for a candidate exactly because they agree with that individual’s personal beliefs and, therefore, the votes that individual is expected to cast. If the candidate is elected (necessarily by the majority of the voters), then those personal beliefs do reflect the beliefs of the electorate.
Granted, but I still have a problem dealing with that philosophy if “writing my representatives and Senators” has no effect at all. Kinda kills every prospect of advocacy.