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treestar

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8. The average person is to blame

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Fri Sep 27, 2013, 09:29 PM

Sep 2013

for not voting, not paying attention and voting stupidly, whatever. We have self government. We choose the people who decide things. We could pay attention to state and local government if we chose to do so. Then there would not be gerrymandering. We could choose to ignore slick ads for substance. We have this power and have to quit ceding it.

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How does an average person know who is to blame if there is a government shutdown?? [View all] kentuck Sep 2013 OP

The House spends the money. Who controls the House? upaloopa Sep 2013 #1

That's pretty much true; el_bryanto Sep 2013 #2

This very recent CBS News poll says Pretzel_Warrior Sep 2013 #3

A Slight Majority. Boy Does That Show How Stupid We ARE. The GOP Should Take All The Blame. TheMastersNemesis Sep 2013 #5

Fox news and the rest of the Republican noise machine has a lot doc03 Sep 2013 #4

Easy Blue Idaho Sep 2013 #6

the average person has no idea that this is even going on..... bowens43 Sep 2013 #7

The average person is to blame treestar Sep 2013 #8

They will mimic the news source they encounter most often 1-Old-Man Sep 2013 #9