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As I hope you know, Middleboro has a traditional New England Town Meeting form of government. Linda and I came here from Sharon, which does the same thing, and has the same problems: when there are hot button issues you get a good turn out, but most of the time very few people bother to show up. The result is often that special interest groups get to vote their favorite projects because so few show up to oppose them.

We all know why this happens: an awful lot of this is boring, boring boring. To be really knowledgeable, you should attend Selectmen's meetings, Finance Comittee meetings and so on.. aside from the boredom factor that comes from the mundane nature of 99% of their business, you'd also be investing a lot of time. Few of us want to make that investment.

From time to time, people try to get rid of Town Meeting. They suggest some sort of council or precinct representatives. So far, anything like that has been shot down and voted down very quickly. Even though most people don't bother to come to most town meetings, they don't want to hand the reins to someone else.

And who wants those reins anyway? I sure wouldn't. What an awful job: all of the boredom, plus you'd be constantly harassed by people mad at you because you didn't vote their way. Only two types of people would seek to stand for those positions: the completely selfless type who wants to serve their community, and the unscrupulous manipulators who would use the position to gain power and perhaps money for themselves. We know which type is more common, right?

Some day, we may really be able to have full democracy: one person, one vote. It would have to be by computer, it could be done from the comfort of your home, but we are decades, maybe centuries away from that ideal.

In the meantime, here we are. Tomorrow morning thousands of Middleboro voters, we Oak Point folk amongst them, will assemble on the High School field for a historic vote. It may rain - hard. It may be hot, humid, sticky, unpleasant, but we'll be there.

History in the making, folks: be part of it.

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