Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "NOW THIS is what I'm talking about!!!!!" video.

  1. Elected representatives are supposed to vote their conscience, not just pander to the mob. Every representative advocating for his district, rather than defending the constitution is the problem in our country. They all make bad votes, if there's something in the bill that brings some pork to their district. Immensely popular moves that are bad for the whole country. Think about how your home district is HURT when you go for the pork. If every OTHER representative is doing the same thing, then your district is paying extra for all the pork everywhere else. Everybody loses. The principled thing to do in Congress is to oppose ALL the pork, including pork for your district. The majority gets things wrong all the time! The job of a representative is to LEAD. That means to persuade the constituency that there's a higher principle in operation. If they don't like it, they can vote you out. If you're a good leader, you will win them over. More likely, you'll just pander and get re-elected that way. The problem with this country is every representative testing the political winds, instead of acting out of PRINCIPLE. There's a tension between majority rule and principle that must be maintained. For decades, we were too populist. Now, we're too authoritarian. That doesn't mean that populism is end-all, be-all. Populism is bread and circuses. Principle is "That's not the role of the federal government, even though it seems like everybody's getting something for free."
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