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 | If you let the popularity of an idea – no matter how silly – dictate your stance, then you are not a very good elected official. If you completely ignore and shoo-away and disparage overwhelming public sentiment on an issue, then you are not a very good elected official. And, in the latter case, doing so used to mean your job at risk. But that, in the large and depressing part, is no ... www.lewrockwell.com |
You can be consistently on the “20% side” of an issue, as it were, and defy the remaining 80% of public sentiment and not be too worried about losing your seat because the district you represent has been drawn in such a way as to make it nearly mathematically impossible.
You can be in favor of paying for trans surgeries, in favor of illegal alien criminals staying in the country, in favor of massive slush fund spending that only goes to your political cronies, you can be in favor of government censorship, and on and on and not worry even though the vast majority of the public – probably even your district – are opposed to them.
In other words, rotten districts are licenses to be crazy because you only have to get through the primary where the 20% miraculously becomes 50% because they are far more obsessed with their issues…they vote…or are voted for…or paid to vote…
Let’s start with Congress.
