Although the questions for the politicians at Thursday night's SCF forum were mixed, the audience was anything but. The youngest member of the packed house appeared to be the age of a grandparent. The question, among others, was asked When is the state legislature going to fix the chronic unfairness every time Florida has an election? Even though the rest of America sees Florida elections as bigoted and dysfunctional, the three politicians on stage seemed to think there were rational reasons for the state's history of flawed elections. People should adjust. Nobody on stage wants to stop anybody from actually voting. Another question came up about the legalization of medical marijuana. Polls show that some 82 percent of the population of Florida favors this. Representative Boyd's response to this was, essentially, We cannot allow this to become a question on the ballot this November. This goes a long way to explain why people view Florida legislature as elitist. Boyd really has no interest in seeing everybody vote. If 82 percent of the electorate disagrees with Boyd about medical marijuana, he wants to do everything possible to keep them from expressing their opinion at the voting booth.

It comes as no surprise that young people and black people did not attend the forum last Thursday night. Representative Boyd does not want to hear other points of view, he only wants to impose his own opinion on the electorate with as little interference as possible from voters. The old, rich, white people in the audience were happy with what they heard. The idea that they represent anybody but themselves is almost laughable.