adequately represented, but if one looks beyond the discontented yammering coming from all sides and takes a good look at people in elective office, many can be found who do represent their constituents and really do want to represent them better.
Their and our problem is the conservative/Republican ideology that says government should not be progressive, should not try to advance society, that, for instance, business should pay people whatever it wants even while the laws they got passed make it effectively impossible for most workers to collectively bargain. They are the people who passed the laws that created the billionaire class, on the backs of the people, in an era when liberalism was weak.
Times are changing, though, and this era it is the conservatives who are losing power. In the meantime, my position is that we need to strengthen and enable our elected warriors. You don't discard and start all over when you're already starting to win. We are all together in hoping that the new energy Bernie generated will translate to even more power.
Take a look at this: That point on the low right where all Democratic lines come together shows were the ideology of our Democratic caucus in the House is today -- more or as liberal as it has been in the past century, and unified as never before.
The upward sweep of the blue conservative ideology line far into a bizarre ultra-conservative/wealth-serving land where it has never gone before is why the GOP is currently self destructing. Its caucus represents the extremely wealthy and stopped representing their constituent voters long ago.
Anyway, happy 2016. It's definitely an education for us all.
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