Sure, the U.S. Congress Is Corrupt, but It Gets Steadily Worse from There

When I lament the issues with our government, it’s normally to note that corruption, i.e., the fact that law-makers vote in lock-step with the interests of those who have given them enormous campaign contributions, and the will of the people (according to a recent study from Princeton University) means nothing whatsoever. Before I digress, let me ask you to consider what that means: whatever the common voter happens to hold dear, whatever that may be, clean energy, education, national security, immigration, gun control, etc., has exactly zero statistical bearing on the way Congress votes on that matter. If you really understand that, you understand what it means when you hear someone say, “The U.S. democracy is dead.”

But on top of all that, our government is an embarrassment. Obviously, we have the letter to the government of Iran, but there are things that are far simpler and more obvious. We can spend days on end debating: “Does the president really love America?” Nowhere else on Earth could you possibly find such a consummate waste of time.

I constantly have the feeling that I’m making a presentation to a client organization in a packed auditorium—and I realize close to the end that my fly is unzipped.

Won’t some of these people resign, simply because they’re ashamed to be a part of something so childish and asinine?