Simple. Do you explain to your children what you are doing. You expect them to listen and obey.
How many times have you told your children when asked about something: "just do as you are told"
There's your answer. Our representatives think we are mostly proletariat and just need to be lead by the nose, they forgot they work for us.
The problem is our "representatives" live a bubble while in DC and forget there are actual adults in their districts that demand answers. Ask too many questions and the Union thugs put you in your place
Yes, how quaint. The Representatives are supposed to carry the people’s opinion as a whole (obviously not all will agree, but whatever the majority is) back to the Congress.
In the olden days this was then expected to percolate through an arm’s length Senate (chosen by local representatives of the people). Now the Senate is almost exactly a statewise arranged House. But given that, the Senate ought to also carry the sense of the state’s people back to the Congress. So only what wins in terms of population and also in terms of states should win in terms of law. Instead we have five hundred plus little Napoleons vying to rule us.
There are two important things about our Congress, and you have both mentioned them: (1) they live in the bubble of DC and Capitol Hill, and (2) they want their goodies and bennies.
The U.S. Congress does not really work for Americans.
They work for each other, to horsetrade bills that they haven’t read and don’t really care about, because on Capitol Hill you need to go along to get along. The goal is to pass laws, not to act as a steward of the American polity.
And I mean this about both Rats *and* Republicans.
They are all complicit in the ongoing destruction of America.
They don’t seem to care.