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mornelithe said:

Gotcha, and while that may be true, as I said, I'm not 100% up to speed on every countries political structure and goings on.  I do know that this Congress is literally the most useless that the US has ever seen.   I know it's not about helping the country, I know it's completely about consolidating their power, gaining more power, and gaining more money...which is where the apathy comes from, because even though we know exactly how they'll behave, we still have 2+ term congressmen in there.  And it's both sides, not just Democrat, or Republican.


Public choice theory explains high re-electability and low Congressional ratings. Because people hate Congress, but love their own Congressman.  

When a Congressman introduces subsidies for, say, corn, everybody back home loves him, because he's going to come from an area that benefits corn subsidies, so they're going to keep electing him. However, people out side of that community hate him because he's costing them all money to pay for the corn subs.

The corn loving guys then hate the Congress for passing a bill increasing another bill that starts another unnecessary plane building program for the military, or something like that. But the Congressman who's sponsoring it gets praise in the home district, because he's bringing jobs back to their district.

Everybody hates the trough, but loves their piggy: the more he eats, the more bacon they get.