>Yes, because Congress is at fault. ... If the laws are bad, it is unequivocally the legislature's fault. Congress is only operating under the constraints of

>Yes, because Congress is at fault. ... If the laws are bad, it is unequivocally the legislature's fault. Congress is only operating under the constraints of voters and corporations. Just try to be the proverbial "good Congressperson" and see how fast you get voted out in favor of a well-funded rival appearing from nowhere. The same is true of the CEO of Exxon, incidentally. You could magically swap the head of Greenpeace in there, but that person will still be constrained by the obligation to shareholders (among other things, via the threat of removal). It's not the individual people at fault, the problem is the emergent behavior of the system itself. You can't fix it by swapping out "bad" people for "good" people. It doesn't work. >Dissent is fine, but it is at best unproductive I don't think the civil rights movement was unproductive.