… the fact that I grew up on DC, a place where the license plate “slogan” appropriately reads, “Taxation without representation”. Yes. Residents have no representation in Congress. And, yes, residents pay taxes. And yes, I went to school alongside the children of senators and congresspeople who lived there because they were representing their states or districts. And yet, their classmates and families didn’t have the same representation.
…. I have to admit that there have been elections when I haven’t voted, when it was too difficult to get a ballot because I was living somewhere else… and, yes, sometimes I haven’t voted because I lived in an area where (due to electoral college or due to the high concentration of democrats)my vote wouldn’t matter (yes, even down ballot).
Rhena Writes 