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youbedead wrote:
That wasn't dogmas point, a populace get the government it deserves, a bad congress is the result of the people of the US

Bingo.
The more educated and enlightened the populace, the more enlightened are its parliamentarians.

Easy E wrote:
So, who exactly makes Congress so terrible?

youbedead wrote:

LordofHats wrote:

Kovnik Obama wrote:Isn't that the default american attitude toward politics?

Pretty much. Blame whoever is in office, even if the disaster was created by a bunch of politicians no longer in office.

A bit like the default american attitude toward the UN...?

Nah. We tell Congress we hate them. We just tell the UN to off and get their hands off our freedom

That wasn't dogmas point, a populace get the government it deserves, a bad congress is the result of the people of the US

And there it is. Those tea party jokers didn't elect themselves to office. Congress is divided because the country is divided.

Of course, there's a chicken-and-egg argument at work here. It could be said that divisions in the public have been exacerbated by the dialogue and machinations of our elected leaders. The public didn't force a Congressman to yell "YOU LIE" at the POTUS. That would have been wrong to do even if the current POTUS was Warren Harding.