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Kansas Wyatt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-21-09 03:17 PM
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62. Because there is NO voice to challenge the status quo.
It would be so easy for unions and other progressive groups interested in improving conditions for all Americans to jointly start up a website that shows people how their Representative represented them and what it means to them. A website that would become widely known and respected by average working Americans. It could also list exactly who their Representative is indebted to and how that affected their voting record.

In other words, they need to be called out and shamed for how they DON'T represent their constituents. Almost everyone has access to the internet now, and it's the quickest and easiest way to lay-out all the facts. However, this site would need to be an information site that doesn't push anyone's agenda, but only informs people exactly how their government Representatives are really representing or not representing average working Americans. Any commercialization or attempts to push an agenda will immediately and permanently discredit it.

Until the people have the truth about those they vote for, then real change won't happen. With a site like that, then any challenger in a primary could just say, go to such and such website to see how my opponent didn't represent you, if the incumbent hadn't already been called out and shamed enough.
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