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Originally Posted by pan6467
You seem to want to focus on "taxation without representation" I tend to agree with that statement. I feel we are being taxed without representation, in that our elected officials are by majority partisan, corrupted by power, who do not represent the people that elected them but the vocal extreme minorities that raise campaign funds for them to get re elected.
Just saying "taxation without representation" in and of itself is not wrong, it's the person who says it's perspective. The other side of the coin could be, "well you elected them". But the truth there is many people are so disenfranchised with the system they don't vote because there truly is no choice or they don't see anyone to truly vote "for" so they take the lesser of 2 evils.
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That's not what "taxation without representation" means, though, and it disrespects the sacrifices of our forefathers to use the statement for ignorant, partisan reasons. We have elected representatives that serve in the government. We have congresspeople and senators. We have a representative government. We have neither autocracy (as it was under English rule) nor direct democracy.
The only conclusions I can draw from this are either the people don't understand the statement, or, as you seem to be suggesting, they want direct democracy. Direct democracy is, of course, stupid. In many ways it's even worse than autocracy. So, again, I'm left with only one conclusion.