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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2740527, member: 71723"]I'm not any kind of arbitrator, just a VERY keen observer. Look, the people I work for each represent about 61,400 people. Almost ALL of them fit their constituencies pretty well. They do what gets them returned to office. Here's the rub - how many even ADEQUATELY represent the people of the state as a whole? Almost none of them. There are whacked out lefties and whacked out right wingers by the dozens and dozens. Out of 203 Reps., I'd guess maybe 5-10 of them are even marginally acceptable to the population at large. At some level, you have to either laugh or cry about that. I've chosen to laugh and mock the fringes on both sides. It's easy to draw a line around 61,400 people who mostly think alike. 12 and 1/2 million is a tougher task. They all talk about the wishes of The people. Ain't no The. There's only Mine and Yours. What's hysterical is almost nobody sees that. It's all a case of voluntary self-segregation into communities that almost never see each other. I'm sitting here with a cat on my lap looking over a valley with almost no sign of humanity in it. Less than 8 miles from here is a city where if I deface the wrong graffiti, I won't survive the trip back without being killed by gun violence. Just an observer, Monty, just an observer.[/QUOTE]