[PerConPat]

So the obvious question is why do the voters elect these people?

Many people have emotions stronger than their powers of reason, basically the Bell Curve; Demographics brought about by "Great Society" programs- vote buying; Decades of Fabian Socialist termite rot in the education system, media, labor unions....

[Brilliant]

I think a lot of it is the brain drain. Anyone with a brain moves out. That leaves those who don’t.