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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Fellow Citizen,

Please help me to ask a useful question. Help me find a useful answer.

I don't feel represented. I know that there is a process through which I am assigned a representative. I know about the vote. Still I do not feel represented.

I know that I am somehow grouped with people at State, Federal, and local levels and that we are assigned as a group to be 'represented' by an 'elected official.' I don't know the people with whom I am grouped and have no personal relationship with the elected official. And, I do not feel represented.

I am not at all sure about which question to ask or to whom I might address it.

Let me try to form questions which may be useful -- or not:
~ In what sense is 'my political representtive' mine?
~ What 'political' decision making is available to me?
~ What power does political representative have to facilitate communication among citizens.
~ Where is my political power?

It seems that my most informed decision is to give up.

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