Too many Americans don't pay attention to what Congress actually does. Performative garbage is generally the style many prefer anymore, which is a turn off to so many of us. CSpan and CNBC have always been things I watched when I could to check in on Congress. Not very exciting, but if you wanted to know what Senators and Representatives…
Too many Americans don't pay attention to what Congress actually does. Performative garbage is generally the style many prefer anymore, which is a turn off to so many of us. CSpan and CNBC have always been things I watched when I could to check in on Congress. Not very exciting, but if you wanted to know what Senators and Representatives were doing...
I think it was GW's chief of staff who said that it used to be that people didn't really know what happened on a daily basis in congress. The business of running the country is rather boring, really, or it should be. It was business like and procedural. It slowly pivoted – is it all Trump's fault? – to loud performative acting and divisive rhetoric where clicks and being in front of a camera become the goal of many politicians, and the press eats it up.
My point: we used to trust what our congressmen and women were doing, we trusted they were debating and working together on solutions that were best for this country. The current congressional culture, however, particularly on one side, has no interest in legislating or governing for the entire country and we're allowing them to get away with this. It will take the public getting more educated, knowledgeable and expecting things to get done in congress before our congress will get back to actually doing their jobs.
Basically, elect people of good character and competence, and then we shouldn't have to pay all that much attention. It is part of that division of labor thing which makes the modern world so efficient. But today we can't even agree on what comprises good character and fitness for elective office.
Too many Americans don't pay attention to what Congress actually does. Performative garbage is generally the style many prefer anymore, which is a turn off to so many of us. CSpan and CNBC have always been things I watched when I could to check in on Congress. Not very exciting, but if you wanted to know what Senators and Representatives were doing...
I think it was GW's chief of staff who said that it used to be that people didn't really know what happened on a daily basis in congress. The business of running the country is rather boring, really, or it should be. It was business like and procedural. It slowly pivoted – is it all Trump's fault? – to loud performative acting and divisive rhetoric where clicks and being in front of a camera become the goal of many politicians, and the press eats it up.
My point: we used to trust what our congressmen and women were doing, we trusted they were debating and working together on solutions that were best for this country. The current congressional culture, however, particularly on one side, has no interest in legislating or governing for the entire country and we're allowing them to get away with this. It will take the public getting more educated, knowledgeable and expecting things to get done in congress before our congress will get back to actually doing their jobs.
Basically, elect people of good character and competence, and then we shouldn't have to pay all that much attention. It is part of that division of labor thing which makes the modern world so efficient. But today we can't even agree on what comprises good character and fitness for elective office.