dubkitty wrote:as Orwell presciently observed, the object of power is power. the Federal government doesn't care about gaining confidence...when public approval of government is at the sub-20% level as it is today, the ship of confidence has already sailed long, long ago.
That is the sad state of reality my friend.
D.o.S. wrote:That said, the public is retarded. The Tea Partiers in the House are there doing exactly what their voters want them to do... a couple years ago my home state's legislature (Maine) passed a law allowing gay marriage certificates when the people didn't want it, and it was subsequently overturned by a popular vote--not because Mainers don't want gay people to enjoy marriage benefits (as we saw last night, when we voted to reinstall them), but because they didn't want the government passing laws without putting them to a vote.
On the one hand--that makes sense. You want your representatives to represent you.
On the other hand--we just voted to put reinstate something that we'd repealed because we didn't like that our elected officials went over our heads, even though a majority of the state supported it.
While it is definitely a facepalm moment atleast they stood up against the elected officials who pushed laws on them. Maybe, just maybe, by some small infinitesimal glimmer of hope your representatives learned that if they let their people vote that the laws would pass and that they don't need to push the laws on them. But that would mean that they really care about their public, which I unfortunately have no confidence in believing.
