They Don’t Care What You Think -- They don’t care what you want

[marmar]

from the Metro Times:



By Jack Lessenberry
Published: May 15, 2013


If you want to understand the Republicans who now control our state government, remember this: They don’t care what you want; they have contempt for what you think; and they most emphatically don’t care about you.

Even scarier, they aren’t especially worried about winning your votes. That’s because they don’t have to be.

Want proof? Just look at what they are doing. Seven years ago, in a statewide referendum, Michigan voters — by more than two-to-one — said they didn’t want mourning doves to be hunted.

Now, opponents have been gathering petitions to outlaw hunting wolves. Gray wolves were virtually extinct in the Upper Peninsula as recently as the 1990s. Then conservationists reintroduced them, and, for a time, they were on the endangered species list. Today, there are more than 650 of them, mostly in the extremely sparsely populated western UP. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://metrotimes.com/news/politics-and-prejudices/they-don-t-care-what-you-think-1.1489274

[xchrom]

1. du rec. nt

[Riley18]

2. I think the same can be said about national politicians.

I know Florida government is the same. They have stopped pretending to care one way or the other.

[zazen]

3. it's true of North Carolina GOP as well n/t

[pscot]

4. K&R

[Demeter]

5. Next, they will declare open season on workers!

Oh, wait, that happened last November.....