And what's wrong with voters hearing about the inside story of those who support a ballot measure? It would be a tragedy indeed if they found out that they were duped by a bunch of hate mongers, wouldn't it? Is it about embarrassment or that the voters might even reconsider their vote next time? ...Yup, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, and be the con job inspired by left or right, it seems like the essence of democracy for the whole thing to be transparent with crystal clarity, since we are well down the path for the voters here in the California Crazyland to be deciding everything from when you should flush the toilet to how to build bullet trains.

Ma'am;...Lincoln had it about right, that you can fool some of the people all of the time...If you can govern on the strength of some of the people then you can mis-govern on the same strength...You can count on the smaller half being left out all of the time, becoming chronic losers, and disenchanted...You can ruin a society by halves if you can always manage the larger half... And when that happens, it does not matter if lies, exagerations, or prevarications played a part, or if the fears of the many were tortured into consciousness because the majority give the government power... In a democracy the whole people must be wrong to be wrong... In a democracy, the minority has the means to defend their rights, but not the power to trample on any right...In a democracy, consensus is the rule, and those who govern govern with consent, and bring every matter to the attention of the people, and let the people decide... We do not have consensus, and majority rule is used to divide us, and to attack individual rights...It does not matter how bad things will get, and they are getting no better because there will always be a majority, and always be a minority... This country has been so badly ruled that the minority is as large as the minority... If we were well ruled we could all be served by the government, and even those in opposition would have a reason to support the majority call... Not so today... Today, win or lose, each side is as dissatisfied with their government...Either side can use the process to radicalize government, knowing they hold the general election by virtue of germandered safe districts... We do not have good government, nor the means to achieve good government... We do have the means to deny to our whole society, and to the members of government the full measure of our support... Look at it...No one is going along...The election settles nothing... This government which was constituted to find perfect union, has through the process of election, by majority, has found only perfect enmity... What if our very existence should depend upon our unity??? Shall we ever be able to bind up this wound that has been done to us by our own government??? Majority rule is a good way of getting something done, but if the thing you want done is justice, nothing less than consensus will suffice... We need consent, and we need consensus to have democracy... Democracy is self government... Rule of any sort is another name for tyranny, because a majority, usually of the worst sort of ignorant will always join with others, and call what it does right...Go along to get along,, and if that does not work; then get it on... If this country is ready for war, and if the few can no longer go with the many, then it is time for war... Elections no longer settle anything in this country... The government has lost the respect of the people -which is its legitimacy... If the government does not work, and cannot achieve the good for which it was made, it is time to trash it, and form a new one having the unqualified support of the people...Consider the words of Shakespeare, that if two people ride a horse, it does not matter who sits in front... Only if our goals are the same does it not matter who sits in government... For a great long time, our goals have diverged, and rather than getting our goals together, and rather than judging our goals and finding the best, we have let our divergent goals be used against us, to give the government greater power while we have less... In a natural world the people would have their own power to do for themselves, and the government would serve to attack all who would injure them in this goal... This is what we need from government, that it has all legitmate authority, and that the people keep all power over their own fates... Thanks...Sweeney