Every last one of these Congress critters should be booted out. The only way to change the current system is to bring in a whole new group who are not savvy about working the system.
You can’t get into the system unless you’re savvy about working the system. By definition. That’s why the system was created.
We live in an oligarchy — a cabal of powerful political-economic interests versus all the rest of us suckers — which allows enough “elections” to give us the delusion of “representative democracy.”
What has the GOP-controlled congress done since January? Advance the Obama agenda. That secret, have-to-pass-it-to-see-what’s-in-it trade bill under lock and key in the bowels of the Capitol, was put there by a Republican. Why?
It’s not Democrat vs Republican. It’s State vs citizen. No matter whom we elect, Fedzilla always gets bigger, while states and localities lose more and more power — a consistent pattern ever since 1789. Even under Reagan!
The Tree of Liberty is thirsty.