On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 04:51:28 +0200, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > Please no. I am sick enough of that in real world politics. > > Representatives are supposed to do what they think is best, not what the > > majority of (less informed) people want. I want representatives that are > > going to lead the project, not make decisions based on opinion polls of > > the minute. > > And I'm sick of real-world politicians ignoring the will of their people... > Those folks make democracy look not very different from dictatorship at > times. If the people don't think a politician is properly protecting their interest, than the next election cycle they should vote for someone else. When I vote for a politician based on their stances on issues, I want to know that for the most part they will keep those stances, not switch their stances in order gain votes in the next election cycle. Politicians should hold actual opinions and base their stances on issues on those opinions and try to convince the voters that their stances are correct. They shouldn't decide what their stances on issues are, based on polls or what will get them reelected. I suspect that the weasels that say whatever it takes to get reelected are probably a lot more likely to make deals for campaign contributions, that hurt the general public than ones that stick to their guns. I ranked you fairly high in the vote, because I thought your voice in support of KDE would be good to have on the board, even though I use Gnome. I am not expecting you to switch to endorsing switching resources from KDE to Gnome if there is a poll that shows more Fedora users use Gnome than KDE. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
