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To: Andy Thomas who wrote (9872)	5/26/1999 12:05:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 17770

Basically, too many of our national politicians become so divorced from real life that they can't see the simple, plain truths of life any more. They live totally in a world of power, money, influence, compromise, lack of any enduring principles, no visceral conception of starvation, hunger, scratching for one's livelihood, that while they can talk the talk, they never walk the walk. They are insulated by yes-persons, by people always sucking up to them, begging favors, buying influence. So when it comes to the destruction we are creating, the lives we are destroying, it is all a fiction to them. Our system was designed to be run by citizen-legislators -- farmers, artisans, tradespersons, landowners, who would spend brief periods legislating then go back and live real lives among the voter-citizens, among whom they would live and work. Pollsters are no substitute for living among the people. The desensitivity which pervades DC (where I worked for a while) is extraordinary. The divide between those in power and the people they represent is every bit as bad here as in any dictatorship or autocracy.