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Originally posted by bilmore
Using his influence with the voters as the fulcrum to lever the legislators onto his chosen path? "Governing"?
By its very definition.
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If it were merely "toe the line or you will lose the next election because you're wrong on this issue with your constituents," I would agree. But does your state have an initiative process? Unless the answer is "yes," you're talking out of your ass. It's not been proved a healthy thing for representative democracy that fuck-them legislation is enacted based on who has the best 30-sec. spot in favor or against of a policy objective no more sophisticated than "mountain lions bad" or "eating horses bad" or "crime bad." A Frankenstein system indeed.
Remember the throw-down we had over whether the Takings Clause applies to income tax? I think that came out of an NYC "soak the rich" ballot measure. You were running to the Constitution for protection because direct democracy was about to go haywire. Almost all ballot measures are fuck-them measures. That's not a good thing.
