Originally Posted by Owain
If your representatives in public office fail to represent you properly, vote for different representatives. If you get outvoted, suck it up.


And saying this in no way mitigates the fact that our politics are dismal and getting worse, or changes the fact that most people can't responsibly handle the power their given once they actually reach office.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)