This part of David Frum's opinion piece below is worth discussing in class -- both 2301 and 2302. He is discussing the various changes in the political environment which may have lead to the rhetoric that may have led to the Tucson shooting:
More and more of our politicians are self-motivated political entrepreneurs, who raise their money through national networks — and are held to account by those networks. It becomes less important to keep everybody in your district happy than to keep happy the national ideological lobbies that pull members to the left or right.
Note the part I put in bold. Our representatives are apparently no longer "our" representatives, but represent instead broad national ideological movements. We simply vote them into office, we don't influence them.
