I'm continually astonished that my über-liberal representative to the federal congress manages to walk a rhetorical tightrope that combines peace-loving activism and a populist anti-bourgeois message, while progressing absolutely no practical legislative agenda. How do these people keep getting elected? How have they lost so much sense of accountability to their constituencies?
In the last year I've written at least four letters to this guy (I'm pretty sure it's been more), and not a single one of them has received a reply. I should take an informal poll to see how many of my acquaintances in my district have written him and the percentage of letters that his office has acknowledged receiving. If quantity of correspondence can be taken as a measure of involvement with one's elected representatives, I'd roughly guess that I'm in the top 80% of "involved" constituents. If our representatives don't even have the decency to answer an engaged populace, god help save our democracy....
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