If we assume that Congress is populated by 500 plus individuals, each educated and independent thinking, it would be impossible to imagine vote after vote essentially along party lines. Party hacks lack the courage to think for themselves. They depend on party money and the party depends on them. Campaign donors regularly trump the wishes and needs of their constituents. Voters are stuck with one or the other party, with campaign money that effectively wipes out the chances of any independent candidate and the with persistent advantage of incumbency.
A one or the other, black or white option, in a complicatedly gray world just doesn’t seem to be working. Congress has an embarrassing approval rating. Congressmen regularly sit on committees and grill others about their transgressions while they themselves can’t be honest, can’t meet deadlines and can’t do their jobs very well.
This doesn’t bode well for American government. But what to do? I wish I knew. Do you?
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