Originally Posted by
matthandy
TB members shouldn't be included. This is about the community that you guys are supposed to represent. The numbers should reflect the community, not the representatives.
Wow, I'm really struggling with the fact that you clearly have no interest in listening to the community that you are supposed to represent!
I'm shocked that you don't see that as an issue, or in fact, any of the TB members, or even comment on it.
This is nonsense.
In any other representative scheme, those serving as representatives have an opinion just like everyone else. They don't lose a "common person" vote just because they were elected.
And listening to the community doesn't mean doing what they tell you. I voted for the people who I thought would best represent me, not just do what I tell them.
Edmund Burke, the great orator of the British Parliament, said it best: "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serves you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
Sorry for the history lesson, but if all we want is TB representatives that do nothing more than serve as automatons for the majority, then we might as well just have a direct vote for every TB issue that comes up.
That, however, would be a nightmare.
BTW, I am firmly in the "let all posts count" group.