Also, just wondering,
do you consider people like Cynthia McKinney and Ma(r)xine Waters
to be of that particularly smart, elite class of folks that are so much more enlightened than the rest of us dumb people raising families,
that they should be able to make the decisions for those families?
No.
I think both of them are far more qualified than their constituents, those who elected them. Just as they're supposed to be.
I've never met McKinney but I have had some dealings with Maxine Waters. I don't agree with her, I don't like her, but I'd say she's more knowledgeable about government and smarter about most things than the majority of the citizenry.