How Hypocritic Is Our Voting?

When we cast votes based on party lines what are we telling our representatives? Should we expect them to make the right decision on an issue when we ourselves use nothing more than party line to determine our vote?

How can we expect our representatives to exercise common sense and responsibility when they vote? How can we be surprised that their decisions are more closely aligned with party line than with right? In a sense, politicians are more honestly representing our vote when they ignore the details of the issue and just vote the party line.

We are leading our representatives by example. We are showing them that we are so disinterested with what is going on that our only need to to have a letter represent us. This abdication of responsibility should subsequently be expected in those that we elect. We should embrace that fact that they have nothing to represent EXCEPT the "letter" (D/R) we have asked them to select.

For the people to vote based on party yet hold their representatives accountable for something other than party is hypocritical. We will never elect politician empowered to make responsible decisions if we do not elect them by making responsible decisions.