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Why we need more DIY government. Study for The House of Representatives, by Samuel F.B. Morse, c. 1821. Smithsonian American Art Museum, museum purchase through a grant from the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, 1978. It takes a lot of gall to represent anyone else, even in so humble a thing as a school board, much less in the U.S. House, and less still in our U.S. Senate, with all its gaseous grandees. In the now plutocratic United States, once in theory so free of caste, it’s still hard to bear why anyone should be above you and me, with the right to “represent” us on the issues of the day. When I ran in the House primary in 2009 and got clobbered, I used to wonder: How could I justify going to Washington, DC, for two years and claiming to represent 600,000 people back in Chicago? It seemed all the more illegitimate since, in the special election to fill Rahm Emanuel’s seat, only 50,000 of that number voted. I would brood about it in the backseat of the car when

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