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is setting! If office holders can afford it--and many of them can--this is an excellent way to materially demonstrate that you represent and identify with ALL of your constituents and have the common good at heart. We not only have a society-destroying gap between rich and poor, we ALSO have financial/cultural class gap between our political respresenatives and all the rest of us. Immediately upon taking office--and, indeed, often long before--they are socially in the circles of the super-rich, seeking their donations, and surrounded with corporate lobbyists, seeking to buy them. Ordinary voters and citizens don't have the means to play these games. We are on the outs. And our interests are shoved aside. And on top of all that, the taxes on our meager wages are paying them big salaries and benefits that we will never see. No wonder we don't have universal health care! THEY don't have to worry about THEIR medical care. And they often live in great isolation--except at election time--from people who are suffering. The "star system," the corporate media and its values, the scads of money involved, the pampering and the perks, the power--and, lately, direct corporate control over election results, via the "trade secret" code in the electronic voting machines--have all added up a class of people--our supposed representatives--living in a completely different world than the rest of us. An action like this that breaks through that barrier is very welcome and very good for our democracy.
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