What happens to people when the go to DC??? They seem to enter a alternate state that is suspended from all reality. It is as if up, down, right, and left means something totally different to them then it does to the rest of the Nation. And, if you where to point it out to them, would stare at you in bewildered indignation.
You have asked the question of the night.
For some unknown reason, exposure to Washington for an extended period makes people crazy.
Their sole allegiance is to the government itself -- not to the country and its voters.
They will never vote to diminish their God -- the government. They will only think in terms of what is doable within the confines of the behemoth. What the behemoth has done cannot have been wrong and, ipso facto, isn't subject to being "fixed".
So, we can only alter, adjust, re-organize and re-direct existing policy.
It has, indeed, become "Washington versus the rest of us."
It isn't funny. It's a very real -- and deadly --problem.