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Why people blame politicians that accurately represent people's views? If you have a bigoted, stupid, awful politician who's popular without fraud or dishonest competition practices in general, may be you should blame education, may be the media, but the politician himself is just doing his job — representing the people. The bigoted, stupid, awful people.

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I am not blaming the politician, just noting the chasm in the NASA projections and what the politicians are pivoting on.

To some extent what you say has merit. But remember we are a republic, we elect people to lead us. They are not meant to raise only to the level of the average person. At least they were not until maybe the last 20 or 30 years.

It is true the main blame for our policies rests with those continuing to elect them. But those actually representing us and making the decisions are responsible also.

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