Two Perspectives on the Massachusetts Election

“Since it happened in America, we’re expected to go along with the pretense that a ‘majority’ sent Scott Brown to Washington. But no such majority for Brown exists. He was the choice of fewer than one in five of his fellow citizens, and more than three in five appear to have either been disenfranchised or to have rejected the notion that they require representation in, or consider themselves in any way bound by the edicts of, the US Senate.”