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How about getting some Senators that actually do pay attention to what they are voting on? The first step is making it public that some of them are losing their
by genter 3y ago
How about getting some Senators that actually do pay attention to what they are voting on? The first step is making it public that some of them are losing their capabilities (although that should be obvious by watching McConnell or Pelosi).
- bell-cot 3y agoTo what end? They are not working for us. Convincing the mafia boss to send Ivy League-educated enforcers, to shake your neighborhood down for protection money, does not meaningfully improve life in your neighborhood.
- genter 3y agoWe have this thing called voting where we could chose senators that do work for us.
- sammyjoe72 3y agoImagine if everyone turned out to vote .. why doesn’t the US do it on a weekend, or make it some kind of holiday, why is it a Tuesday?
- jimrob4 3y agoAt the time, Tuesday was the best day. Now it makes no sense other than being an obstacle, and therefore one more thing in the way of people actually running the government.
- kevinmchugh 3y agoIt's unlikely that either Feinstein or McConnell will be reelected, regardless of when the election is held. The scale of their health effects weren't known at their last election.
- bell-cot 3y agoCompared to paying enough attention to all of our myriad elected officials, to know which ones of them are up to what kinds of crooked dealings...having to vote on a Tuesday is a "...and remember to staple your 47-part filled-out-by-hand paper tax filing in the upper-left corner before mailing it to the IRS" sort of detail.
- Robotbeat 3y agoSo they can step down or get primaried (etc) by people who have full control over their faculties.
- unethical_ban 3y agoJust state you believe improving American politics is hopeless, and stop asking questions as if you expect to be convinced otherwise. To me, this nihilistic cynicism is self-fulfilling. If the population believes and furthermore accepts, as you do, that politics is inherently irredeemable and corrupt, then that is the politics we will get. Even if a system is riddled with problems, it is the obligation of a citizen to at least give a damn and expect more from the system. Additionally, it is ridiculous to ridicule people for trying to fix issue #1 just because there are 10 issues. We can call for fixing, through mere voting or more strictly through law, that legislators are to be mentally fit and retire when they are past a traditional retirement age. We can also be demanding/expecting our legislators to work for our communities, or lobby/petition to change House elections to Ranked-choice, to lobby for campaign finance reform, or whatever changes you feel are necessary to the structure of our governments.