Has anyone else noticed how people love “a” scapegoat. I see it everywhere. Lately, I’ve seen a lot of things like this popping up in my social media.
Memes seem to be making it so easy for people to spew hatred. Since memes weren’t as big when Bush (2001-2009) was in office, I found it a little harder to find a good example–
Yet, here we are bashing on and picking on the leaders of our country – (who the people did vote for) – forgetting, it seems that they don’t actually work alone. Congress could have put their strength and might against going into war after war, which continues to drain our finances. Congress could also put their foot down today— but it appears that Congress isn’t actually functioning anymore. Congress could work together to figure out a budget that actually means not raising the debt ceiling, for example.
Healthy debate that leads to compromises which are good for the people seems to be a thing of the past for most members of Congress. Yet, the general public seems to let Congress members get by with very little attention and scathing- allowing all their hatred and dissatisfaction rain down on a single person. Isn’t it time to remember our government isn’t made up of one person– but many people.
The following is only a “correlation” not a causation, I am aware– but it is still interesting. As you can see in 1982, 58 member of the Senate had overlapping ideological views and as the years progressed fewer and fewer members had overlapping ideological views. This is what I see as a major contributing factor to the growing dysfunction in our government. It’s not about a particular political party- it’s about leaders inability to use reason and compromise in order to make a more functional government.
By 1951 the 22nd Amendment was passed and instituting term limits on the presidency.
Today, members of Congress may remain in Congress as long as they continue to get elected. Is it time for that to change?
Please leave your thoughts below– I am about reasoned conversation and open discussion. We need to be talking about important issues, like the functionality of our government.
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Term Limits for Congress 