Congress does not write laws or legislation, special interest groups do. Lobbyists are paid, some very well paid, to get politicians to go along with the need of the legislative group.
When you are voting for a Congressional Rep or a U.S. Senator you are not voting for a person who will write laws. Your rep only votes on legislation to approve or disapprove of constructs that are written by outside groups and sold to them through lobbyists who work for those outside groups.
While all of this is happening the same outside groups who write the laws are providing money for the campaigns of the politicians they need to pass them. This construct sets up the quid-pro-quo of influence, although much of it is fraught with plausible deniability. This is the way legislation is created.
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Completely agree. I also believe this system is no good because it’s fertile ground for all kinds of corruption. Even the most well intentioned honest person can and probably will get corrupted by this system.
I don’t think for a second our founders envisioned the system working like this. There must be ways to prevent the bulk of this corruption with checks and balances; one of which is term limits. Another would be returning the placement of senators to the state legislatures in each state. Senators answer to the state legislature and the legislature answers to us and of course so do the state reps.
The senate is extremely corrupt at every level. They think they are in charge of us instead of the other way around as it is intended to be. They work for us; or at least are supposed to. These career senators are the absolute worst of the bunch. Their terms should be reduced to 4 years and only for two terms max. Again; sent their by their state legislatures who can replace them without an act of God if they get out of line like our two AZ senators are right now.