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I’m not sure what the official job description contains but, but from having waited on a few over the last 16 years, I would say it should include something about arrogance and an overweening desire to wield power over others. Our representational democracy is deeply flawed. I believe the founding fathers intended political office as public service, not a career. In line with my speculation of the job description of congressmen, I advocate an informed, participatory democracy instead.

As Rousseau wrote: “Sovereignty … consists essentially in the general will and the will cannot be represented. Either it is itself, or it is something else; there is no middle ground. The deputies of the people, therefore, are merely its agents … the instant a people chooses representatives, it is no longer free.”

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