[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

The current leadership in Washington operates as if they can just set arbitrary goals, whether "affordable housing" or "universal health care" or anything else -- and not concern themselves with the repercussions

The question is, how many of them are really trying to achieve that, and how many are just saying it to bait the greedy fools who'd vote for them. After all, the immediate "repercussion" there is power; a seat in the legislature, and all its benefits. For some politicians, jobs and housing and health care are just promises you make to get elected; ideology is just cover.

[HighlyOpinionated]

The question is, how many of them are really trying to achieve that, and how many are just saying it to bait the greedy fools who'd vote for them. After all, the immediate "repercussion" there is power; a seat in the legislature, and all its benefits. For some politicians, jobs and housing and health care are just promises you make to get elected; ideology is just cover.

Another good reason why we MUST get the 17th Amendment repealed and go back to Article 1 Section 3 of the Constitution. If Senators had to answer to their State Legislatures and not to their lobbyists and donors . . . the Senate would be a much finer place and Senators who did not perform well would not be sent back to Congress by their State Legislatures.