Folks, with all the talk about voting D or R and the other party is wrong, it shows that the parties are winning. We, the voters, have too long suffered under the misconception that the parties are on opposite teams. They are on the same team. One party plays offence and the other plays defense, but they are definitely on the same team. We, the people are the other team, the politician's opponents. Think about it, politicians spend big bucks to to get elected to a job that pays only a good (not great) salary, and they get to vote that salary themselves. If they truly represented us (worked for us) we would set their salary. How many politicians get elected with modest wealth and retire extremely wealthy? When a new politician gets elected his most important job is not representing those who voted for him, it is getting re-elected. I understand that we have to vote who we think is the best candidate, (most will run as one of the regular people) but the vast majority when elected think they are so much better and smarter than those that elected them. Sorry for the long post.