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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
Bazootiehead-in-training
quote:Originally posted by jodi:
I’m with Mik (Even though I think the current President is a disgusting disaster). Secret ballots are a mistake. We should know how people we voted into office would vote on this.
So with secrecy they will be free to vote their consciences and that morality will take over? I think it would be exactly the opposite. They would be free to sell their souls and not have to hide it.quote:Originally posted by wtg:
I totally get where you guys are coming from, and I respect your view that the accountability is to the voters.
Unfortunately I no longer believe that individual voters' interests are the ones represented by Congresscritters. With a few exceptions, I think they are largely working in their own interests which are defined and controlled by the people who fund their campaigns. As the saying goes, follow the money.
There has been much reported about what members of the GOP are saying in private versus what they're willing to say publicly. The disconnect is stark.
I'm looking for a way to reduce the power of the money and how it affects the Congresscritters' decision making; you are looking for a way to preserve the power of the people to vote out those who are not representing their interests. I'm thinking that ship is long out of the harbor.
Mitch McConnell's approval rating in Kentucky is 18 percent right now. I'm guessing he'll be re-elected, and I don't think it's going to be because he suddenly changed what he's doing. It's going to be because people with enough money figured out ways to keep him in power.
Like I said, I truly respect what y'all are saying. I wish I had your optimism.
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"A mob is a place where people go to get away from their conscience" Atticus Finch