I am outraged.

Editor,

I live in San Francisco, and I receive pleas from politicians in New York, Ohio, and other states for donations to Congressional campaigns in yet other states, like Kansas and Colorado.

I am outraged by the blatant undermining of our system of representative government that this represents.

The citizens of Kansas or Colorado or any other state are entitled and should be left alone to elect their own representatives without interference by out-of-state "donors" near and far.

This corruption of the American political process shows just how poisoned by money our elections and how unrepresentative our government have become.

Also, "democracy" doesn't mean you vote for representatives funded by deep-pocketed donors in distant locales once every 2 or 4 or 6 years. Democracy means you play a day-to-day role in the decision-making process in your government and at your workplace, both of which are obviously lacking in the United States today.

Occupy have it right. We can change this. All it takes is the will of ordinary people to do it.

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