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The system can be easily fixed if the people got of their collective asses. Everyone says "Congress fucking sucks, except for MY CONGRESSMAN!"
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"Incredible that of the over 300 million people living in this country, over 200 of the dumbest ones managed to be elected to congress as Democrats. What are the odds??!" - Dan Bongino
Government is the symptom, people are the illness. We're a Representative Republic where those Representatives and Senators are elected via direct democracy. The people in office clearly represent the mindset, intelligence, and desires of the people that put them into office. The honest truth is that the idiocy you see before you is the direct result of your neighbors, family, coworkers, and friends going to the voting booth and putting these people into positions of power.
The blaming of elected officials, government agencies, etc.... it is all a scapegoat. The honest truth is that WE THE PEOPLE are to blame. We fucking put them there.
The system is rigged for incumbents to win, very hard to remove them.
The system can be easily fixed if the people got of their collective asses. Everyone says "Congress fucking sucks, except for MY CONGRESSMAN!"
More broadly, they simply do not know how to do anything about it.
None of our side is taught how to do anything to engage the political process besides vote for the slate of candidates offered by the parties. By design.
That's not nearly good enough to accomplish anything.