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In reply to the discussion: Ok....I've said this here for YEARS beginning in 2001... [View all]ForgedCrank
(3,006 posts)this is the primary point I was trying to establish.
Outsiders putting pressure on officials in that district or state could force them to make policy changes, changes that the local majority may not agree with. As a result, the majority of those who voted would no longer be represented, regardless of how much I may disagree with how they run things.
So that was my answer regarding how outside influences would affect the local citizens right to be represented.
I simply don't agree with such tactics, most especially organized economic boycotts that would most certainly hurt the most vulnerable. Florida local politics and policy may piss me off, but it's not my place to tell those citizens how they should run their own system locally. I don't live there. And I firmly believe that is how Democracy is supposed to work.