There are people in the RI legislature who would make them seem like pikers if they ever got any power.
You won't find worse people at the Adult Correctional Institute in RI.
So who put these clowns in the RI legislature in the first place? I'm sure they didn't get there by divine fiat. And you, as an individual, have a whole lot more influence on your state legislator than you do on some pol who is elected by the masses of the entire state.
The question is, would you rather have the communist your legislature selected or the communist the electorate selected? At least in the case of the latter, RI's rights as a state would be somewhat more likely to be protected. And if your legislature miraculously made a move to the right, all the pandering to his looter constituency would amount to naught, the state legislature would yank his sorry hide out at the next opportunity.