<i>How well does that representation actually fulfill the wishes of their constituency as a whole, let alone any individual voter?</i><p>Yeah yeah yeah, being cynical about democracy is cool, blah blah blah.<p>I suppose you should, what, just burn the motherf*cker down and be done with it, then?<p>You know, in 50 years the GOP will be able to look back and point to one of their most brilliant victories of all time:  actively sabotaging the activities of government, and then using the results of their very own actions to convince the electorate that government doesn&#x27;t work and cannot represent them, despite the fact that they got themselves elected into the very system they claim to despise.<p>It&#x27;s utterly brilliant.  &quot;Starve-the-beast&quot; neocon tactics taken to a whole new level.