... speaks VOLUMES to the attitudes within that coterie of 'elitists.' Folks must wake up to the FACT that it's not a matter of voters being ignorant, ill-informed, or even bigoted. It's a matter of whether folks who ask to represent us are inclined to EXPLOIT that ignorance for their personal aggrandizement or work to INFORM and educate us as a matter of basic integrity.

Over the decades, we've enacted laws all over this nation that criminalize those who prey upon the elderly, the infirm, the mentally-challenged among us. Some people just CAN'T HELP getting dealt a bad hand in the gene pool ... but people CAN HELP ensure that such folks aren't fed upon by the cannibals of greed.

When those who purport to 'serve' the public demonstrate such a gross disregard for the inherent worth of evry human being, they deserve a punishment far worse than the peddlers of aluminum siding or swampland.

My entire political philosophy is grounded in the principle that ALL people deserve to share equitably in the fruits (sweet or sour) of self-governance. I abhor and eschew victim-selection and blame-shifting. Under no circumstances whatsoever should any person benefit from the suffering of another. Never.