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 My mother asked me this weekend what I thought of student government. Me being me, I wanted to know if she meant student government as a topic or a specific student government in particular. After I got Patented Mom Expression # 14 (Withering Disapproval) the whole story came out.

My mother is a school teacher at a middle school in a smallish rural

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They hold the elections to give us a taste of the democratic process, and then the elected set themselves over handpicking people to do the grunt work.

Am not at all suprised by that last part.

Though I'm tempted to try and draw a parallel between our 'taste of the democratic process' being choosing a powerless body of elected officials and my beliefs about the power of the vote and the electoral college.