[Baynative]

Anyone who is not familiar with the Beltway Society would do themselves a favor by reading Mark Leibovich's book "This Town".

Excerpt here

[Jacquerie]

Leibovich was on a C-Span Book TV rerun this morning. His revelations were sickening, as is your excerpt.

A federal republic designed to secure our natural rights has devolved, been corrupted into a crony wealth creating machine that increasingly serves the interests of the few, those at the table.

It is way beyond time to smash this consolidated government, and return to our framers’ constitution, a federal republic in which the states run the senate.