Look what politics as usual has done to the country. It has given us a US Senate with a majority of horrible people with a huge superiority complex. If they're defeated in primaries, they win as third party candidates, with lots of help from corporate media. They sell out for pet projects or favors for their friends, then tell us we don't understand politics. When one of their own party doesn't play the game, they backstab their own (think McCain) with no restraint urged from their buddies. They seem to be mostly unpleasant, corrupted, self-centered elitists who are a world onto themselves.
The House of Lords seems to be far better as a ruling body. The Senate of ancient Rome might have been worse, but I'm not really sure about that.
How did it reach this point?
The problem with the GOP is that there are far too many Americans, supporting sending jobs to other countries.
We have for an entire generation, been selling out.
Now the Tea Party could begin to solve this issue.
Stop buying everything from everywhere but here. Bring back American jobs.