Letters to the Editor
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Our government is more or less accountable to the people
Really? Where does the "more" part come in? As an example my happy as a pig-in-shit congressman never even shows up in his district. He won't deign to respond to questions that don't suit him either. Oh, send him an email about those dirty brown people coming across the border or them damn tax-and-spend liberals or why rich people shouldn't have to pay taxes and he'll grace you with a prefabricated email pat on the head. Anything else he ignores.
Given that he has to run every two years you'd think he's be at least a bit more responsive, but the voters who previously lined up to vote for our ex-Congressman (now serving a prison term) don't seem to see the pattern here. And that's in my own district - try communicating with someone not "answerable" to you. They won't even accept the comment, whatever it is.
Sorry, but our system of government has completely excluded the "people" from the process, but that's OK because the "people" don't seem to care anyway.