Just 17% Say Federal Government Represents Will of the People

[stephanie]

Tuesday, June 03, 2008
As Election 2008 draws ever closer, it is hard to overstate the disconnect between the American people and their government.

Just 17% of voters say that the federal government represents the will of the American people. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 68% disagree and 15% are not sure (see video). These views are consistent across partisan and demographic lines. Men, women, young, old, Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, all offer a bleak assessment of what is supposed to be a “government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”


read the rest..
http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/issues2/articles/just_17_say_federal_government_represents_will_of_ the_people

[PostmodernProphet]

isn't that logical?.....at any given moment Congress is going to be un-representative of around 50% of the people voting....extend that across any length of time and most folks are going to remember when the government didn't represent their will.....

[glockmail]

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."

I think its long overdue myself. :salute: