tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34867261.post7874281962901126109..comments2023-10-25T04:44:35.462-04:00Comments on Rather Than Working: A Well Written Essay on the Hypocrisy of the Ruling ClassDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04411527807049220749noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34867261.post-89082338605606504872010-03-25T11:23:55.267-04:002010-03-25T11:23:55.267-04:00Your link didn't work.
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I did ...Your link didn't work.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/03/22/democracy/index.html" rel="nofollow">This link</a> may.<br /><br />I did read it.<br /><br />I don't know that this shows "hypocrisy." It does show a depressing sort of politics as usual. Hypocrisy is Congress exempting itself from the Civil Rights Laws, from the ADA, from... well, you get the idea.<br /><br />The idea that elected representatives must reflect their constituents' views has always been around -- and regularly ignored when expedient. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Remember Edmund Burke: "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."<br /><br />Here, the validity of public opinion polls is particularly suspect -- inasmuch as the "final" language of the statute (that is, the Senate bill as "reconciled" -- or, in other words, the bill that is not <i>yet</i> law) was not released until the middle of last week. Specialists -- and, I continue to believe, most of our elected representatives, those for and those against -- did not have time to read and understand the massive bill, and certainly the general public did not.<br /><br />This is why it galls me so terribly that President Obama kept trumpeting that 'the time for debate is over' -- how could it be over when the specific subject of the debate was still under wraps?The Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14723009641287783218noreply@blogger.com