If this was about subsidizing crops, we wouldn't be having this argument. Those legislators are mandated to do what their voters want. They may commit political suicide or choose to retire when they are confronted by wing nut voters, but they are not impartial statemen.
Wing nuts vote consistently, they believe in the process more than cynical people who just say their legislature sucks and don't vote. You get what you vote for and what you don't vote against.
The representative were not 'bought off by the NRA.' They listened to their benighted citizenry. We all call up our represetatives and give them hell when they don't do what we want, or we vote them out. Same thing in red states.
The fact is that voting one's conscience is not what they are chiefly up there to do. We have a lot of people in this country that we may consider stupid, immoral and worthless human beings. But they are mobilized and they have convinced these guys to do this.
Look at their districts. They did exactly what the folks put them in office to do. We can sit in a blue district and look down on them. Those representatives reflect their state's values as shown by being elected. Nothing inconsistent.
It's not corruption. It's democracy, as ugly as it is sometimes. And it has been ugly with Tea Party people voting in people to do their bidding. No use getting mad at these guys; the NRA, the RNC, Rush, Beck and the rest did this.
For several reasons, we have trouble connecting with these people. That is why the Democratic Party is falling to the right, not just because of the GOP or being weak. We have not listened and found solutions to THEIR problems An example would be property taxes. I could make a thread on this, but I probably won't. Suffice it to say that the Democratic donkey is mostly an urban animal that is not that into these folks.
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