Have lawmakers forgotten they have constituents? [View all]
No politician will ever admit they have zero interest in hearing what their constituents have to say. But from Washington, D.C., to Wichita, Kan., elected officials are cancelling meetings with constituents and systematically undermining citizen-led ballot initiatives; the one tool the public has to make change when elected officials won’t listen.
It is profoundly hypocritical; and dangerously shortsighted. In these bitterly polarized times, legislators should be finding ways to listen more to an angry public, not less.
The will of the people “is the only legitimate foundation of any government,” Thomas Jefferson explained to the citizens of South Carolina in 1801, and “to protect its free expression should be our first object.”
But today many elected officials seem eager slink away from their own constituents.
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