Is That Harsh? Tough.

In case you missed it, Charles Pierce has some thoughts on this thing we call “representative democracy.”

We are talking about voters who, by and large, vote against their own economic self-interest time and time again and who, quite honestly, are the biggest suckers in the history of representative democracy. They continue to support policies that render their states into third-world sweatshops for corporations headquartered thousands of miles away. They doom their kids to inadequate schools and themselves to the whims of free-market medicine. The problem, of course, is that the rest of us have to live with the consequences and, it should be noted, pay a fkload of the bills for it besides. You’re welcome, idiots.

Read more: Chris Wallace Gross Eric Cantor Over Congress Doing Nothing – Heartless Bastards – Esquire

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