Washington is incapable of representing the people any longer. We have come to a crisis point in our Republic.
IMO it is caused by the demand for money, for practical reasons and also for greed. House members complain that all of their time is taken up campaigning; the Senate a bit less so. This Presidential campaign has started nearly 2 years before the election. It costs about a billion dollars to win election to the office of POTUS.
We have to financially support our candidates, but there are so many offices to hold. DJT was elected, first by self-financing, then by millions of small individual donations. All of the other candidates on both sides relied on large money donors - donors who give expecting specific benefits in return.
That is the problem at the core of this immigration and border crisis; ultra rich donors want open borders and cheap labor; the populace wants to preserve the level of prosperity we and our forebearers worked so hard to achieve. However, that makes us less competitive in a global market.
Our prosperity gives us leisure and incentive to develop new technologies, which helps to keep us competitive; yet foreign competitors, like EU and China, can steal the rewards of our expensive R & D.
So we seem to have come down, politically, to the citizenry vs the ultra rich... a crisis of a free Constitutional Republic. It is less of a crisis in Europe because they are not bound by one compelling guide, a constitution. Europe is governed mostly by unelected bureaucrats. The Brits want to break free - BREXIT - but the big money is defeating the will of the people, just as it is in this country.
I try to donate to the (few) candidates that I deem worthy, but then I am swamped by dozens of requests from other politicians and PACs, etc. The demand is horrendous!
We are in a crisis and the outcome is far from certain. Prez Trump and Q are trying to steady the rudder of the ship Constitution, but the battle is undermined by the DS holding multiple entitlements over our heads, entitlements that are driving us to bankruptcy and ruin. I suspect RUIN is to the advantage of the ultra rich, who are determined to be our controllers.
{{Good grief! Where did that come from so early in the morning?! AND before covfefe! 😵}}