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District, which interestingly is directly contrary to the opening sentence, i.e. “Thank goodness for a free and democratic society! It provides us with the opportunity to empower those whom we feel most able and qualified to represent us.”
What follows presupposes that 1) the people in the district did not know how to “use the opportunity to empower” and 2) the person they chose was not “able and qualified.” Those are just not the facts.
Be that as it may, the person who was defeated had
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