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With deep breaths and calm you can learn here.

Wish it had been available since I was in the Fifth grade!

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.

Just Because

Just because Darrell Issa seems to think that any employer ought to be able to fire any employee who seems to be acting gay, does not make him a bad Republican.

I wonder what he thinks about Kent State.