Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "ReasonTV"
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@shaneviola8848 The Congress was supposed to be comprised of neighbor statesmen who go serve for 2 years, then come back home. The Senate was supposed to be comprised of State-appointed representatives who spent a little more time there. Large financial interests quickly saw a way to circumvent the system by getting Congress to not limit the number of terms, while accepting pay-offs through their campaigns and endless campaign-financing efforts. You could be a total failure as an attorney, bankrupt, but if you were willing to sell out your neighbors and vote for corporate interests, then you had a guaranteed job in the House or Senate, and the lobbyists would spend whatever it took to keep you there.
We don’t need that kind of “expertise”. A solution to this would be a grassroots political training program run in the States, where neighborhood-selected Congressmen get informed about what to watch out for, how the slimy lobbyists try to bribe you softly, and how to represent your State better. There would be a continual periodic meeting with Representatives and former Representatives to help ensure the people are being heard and supported in the US Congress.
This crap where all the major lobbyists funnel millions of dollars to both parties, then have them play these charades about being opposed to each other to tap into the American spirit of competitiveness and gamesmanship has got to stop. They keep us divided and at each other, when they are the culprits behind many of our woes. We can do better as Americans, no need for some bogus party.
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