The political climate in Washington D.C. is a big contributor to global warming due to the flaming rhetoric of the Congress that we elected in good faith and trust. The politicians have relied on their ability to skirt the truth, misconstrue the facts and in fact actually lie. It is difficult to cover all of the transgressions of our Congress due the depth of said transgressions. The choices we now have: elect the same people and expect different results (definition of insanity) or elect different people who we can plan to replace if they do not perform as we need them to. It is important that we understand what it is that we want from our legislators. We ask for things that would benefit us personally but in the grand scheme of things will not benefit ALL of us now and in the future. That being said we have inadvertently created 535 people who feel they cannot please their “constituents” so they please themselves and their big dollar backers (who have bought and paid for them). We must understand that politicians use the public (all of us from non voters to voters) as pawns in their efforts to gain power to do the bidding of their true masters. If by some slim chance we (voters) could just step back and really look at our elected legislators we could really see that we have made some poor choices. The political system is designed to further their own ends not ours! Take the idea of redrawing (Gerrymandering) voting districts to help a particular party or candidate, if each state were to use the normal county boundaries there would be no need to Gerrymander or redraw districts. It is conceivable that we as voters have ignored these seemingly minor things that our legislators do because we do not understand the long and short-range effects they have on our everyday lives. This what the seat fillers depend on our complacency and lack of knowledge along with the meandering language used to write laws. Suppose laws were written like an index, where you have detailed listing showing what a law is supposed to do or needs to do. It is possible that our involvement in that way would give us a way to decide what we need as opposed to what we want (often what we think we want). Needs and wants are similar not the same and not necessarily interchangeable. It is and always has been incumbent on the voters to make real change in Government but we have made an unconscious decision to allow the political system to do what we will not.
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