re: I wonder what Robert meant
Goddamn, you got that right, Bob.
Try living in BC, where our provincial government won 51% of the vote (which was, I believe, under 30% of the eligible voters), got 98% of the seats in the legislature, and then starts babbling about some kind of "mandate from the people",... what a fuckin joke.
Clearly too many people confuse the “representative†part of representative democracy with Parcheesi or some other optional novelty. Yes, this means you Tom. Ya crack head.