“Twenty-five percent of my people believe the Pentagon and Rumsfeld were responsible for taking the twin towers down,” said Rep. Collin Peterson, a Democrat who represents a conservative Republican district in Minnesota. “That’s why I don’t do town meetings.”
I'm of two minds about the citation. On the one hand, it's a backhand for conversatives, phrased to garner sympathy for elected officials who have to contend with more than their share of lunatic constituents. On the other hand, it could also be interpreted to mean that Peterson and his ilk are sissies, because Petersen seems impatient with the voters he's supposed to represent.
Would Chief Marge Gunderson of Fargo fame cross the street to avoid conspiracy theorists? No, she would not.
Maybe Rep. Peterson needs remedial help from actress Frances McDormand. He wouldn't feel threatened by McDormand or her filmmaker husband, which means they might have some success teaching a fellow Democrat how to hide his contempt for representative democracy.
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Anyone who refers to his fellow citizens as "my" people is unclear on the concept of democracy.
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