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Just as soon as I decide I maybe don't have to hate my country so much, I have to hate my seemingly safe state. Way to fuck yourselves in the ass people of Massachusetts, but I hear the person you elected doesn't think you should be doing that. By the way, when you lose your health insurance, you have a state option to protect you. But I guess
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I will say that, while explaining the situation to my mum this morning, I came to a disappointing self-realization of staggering hypocrisy that I'm still trying to work through before I suffer catastrophic cognitive dissonance and have internal BlueScreen of Death Fatal Error:
Somehow, I want my elected officials to be able to vote their conscience (or as another higher moral compass dictates) even when doing so is against the majority opinion, ex. gay marriage, votes-for-women, civil rights, etc.
BUT I also want my elected officials to strictly vote in line with the wishes of their constituency, in direct adherence to the role of "representative," ex. as Lieberman is failing to do.
So, I'm still working through that to see if I'm as big a hypocrite as I feel just now. However, much as I wish we could just do issues-voting (now, with Technology!) without representatives (and their donors), if these are the hairdos we keep voting for (and the empty podiums that keep getting nominated), perhaps we're just not ready as a nation to be trusted with the responsibility of civic duty.
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