<![CDATA[Barney Frank Says It's "Unrealistic" to Expect Representation from our Representatives]]>

1.0 link 68640 <![CDATA[Barney Frank Says It's "Unrealistic" to Expect Representation from our Representatives]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-wade/barney-frank-says-its-unr_b_68640.html Representative Barney Frank's comment in Friday's New York Times reveals something very disturbing about the state of our democracy. Regarding his decision to exclude transsexuals from a bill forbidding discrimination against gays and lesbians, he says:

There is a tendency in American politics for the people who feel most passionately about an issue, particularly ones that focus on a single issue, to be unrealistic in what a democratic political system can deliver... and that can be self-defeating.

It is "unrealistic," Mr. Frank...

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