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That's because you don't get to choose your issues one at a time. You get to choose a basket of issue positions at the same time as a legislator's personality.
by pmyteh 9y ago
That's because you don't get to choose your issues one at a time. You get to choose a basket of issue positions at the same time as a legislator's personality. Normally from a choice of two.
- loeg 9y ago> You get to choose a basket of issue positions at the same time as a legislator's personality. And this is at best -- it assumes your elected representative even holds their campaign promises, which is maybe a long shot.
- knz 9y agoIndeed. However, most politicians take their election as a mandate for all of their public positions.
- pmyteh 9y agoYes. Mandate theory is a convenient fiction with basically no basis.