Your tagline shows me something. "The government writes no bill that does not line the pockets of special interests."
I could write a book on what is wrong with that statement but I don't have the time and who would read it? Not you, and you're the one it would be aimed at. Others wouldn't bother to read a book aimed at your tagline. LOL
Now to your remarks on this thread topic...
DH WROTE:
{{{Isn't it a terrible thing to vote for the lesser of two evils rather than vote for an institution that represents your beliefs?
No matter which party you vote for, once in office, they will do what they what they want to do after each election, regardless as to what lies they presented prior to election.
What it comes down to is that no party represents their constituents and no party is held responsible for their election promises.
Each year, it gets worse and worse. Each year we lose more and more freedoms and rights under the original (dead...not living) Constitution.
Each election cycle both party's have come to expect the voters to vote "straight line" for no other reason than to prevent the other party from coming into power...not for the issues in hand.
It's a sad state of affairs and it will not be changed unless we either completely clean house within the party or invoke term limits.}}}
MY REPLY...
The real world IS what it IS.
When political parties were created, no one could tell how they would actually work in the real world...no crystal balls available. Sadly,you have set up a criteria in which YOUR ideal must be met or else all is lost.
It doesn't surprise ME that there's not a lockstep guaranteed performance in office between voters and their representatives. There is SOME correlation, though. The Republicans Reps resemble their voters somewhat and Democrats Reps resemble their voters somewhat, MUCH more than either party represents the other side's voters or people who don't bother to vote.
And the political environment is not as static as you imply. Voters can change over time, marginally, if not an about face, and so can their representatives. Circumstances also change and both voter and rep must react to these. There must be room for these changes...some of which are in the wrong direction and some of which are right...in our assessment of the political system, because they WILL occur in the real world.
The COURTS are the most responsible for a ruling-by-elite edict situation that IS of deep concern to me. Courts have become more like our dictators than mere interpreters of law. It isn't that the other branches are free of problems, but their greatest fault is probably their reluctance to reign in the dictatorial courts, and in the appointments that have been made to courts through the years. Strict constructionism has NOT held sway in those appointments, whether Republicans or Democrats were leading .
What is needed is a wholesale change in what has gone on for years, and it would have to be gradual. We didn't get this way overnight but over decades.
Only the Republican party with a conservative bent can get that done. To do so, conservative Republican representatives must have voters that support and push them in that direction. As well as a Republican President who will appoint the right people to our judiciary.
With a tagline like yours, I'm wasting my time if I were aiming these comments to you. You were the catalyst, however, and maybe someone else will read them and be influenced to participate in our political system.