[servantboy777]

>>If politicians don't give the voters what they demand, they're voted out and replaced by some that will.<<

Well we've certainly seen examples of this in Ted Kennedy, Boxer, Schumer, Thurman, Fenstein, Reid, Pelosi, Waters, Waxman, SJ Lee, Sanders, Kucinich, H.Clinton.....the list goes on.

Simplistic? Maybe. But in so many cases, voters cannot vote them out of office due to the deep entrenchment of the incumbent.

[Bernard Marx]

I agree the powers of incumbency and compliant liberal media are huge problems. But in a democratic republic it's the the people's responsibility to inform themselves and demand needed reforms at the ballot box.

Government schools run by self-interested unions have dumbed the electorate down. Yet there has never been a time in the history of mankind that so much information has been available to voters, literally at the touch of a button. But people are mentally lazy and politicians use that fact to their own advantage. Huge numbers of Americans don't even bother to vote. And thus we get the government we deserve.