Too Much Money and Power to End the Influence of Money and Power
The United States Congress—A Call to College Students
There is little doubt in most people’s minds that the United States Congress is in state of total and perhaps irreconcilable collapse. It simply no longer works as it was constitutionally created to work and a great deal of dithering surrounds the causes, specifically, presumed by both conservatives and liberals to be a stand-off in principle.
That’s utter nonsense. Our 237 year history of legislative function has always been a philosophical battleground in Washington and the nation was shaped by meeting those differences with level-headed negotiation, if not detachment. Negotiation between partisan interests seems to have bailed on us and the question is whether it can be rehabilitated. Lincoln’s ‘a house divided against itself cannot stand’ has never been more prescient. Not only is the House divided against itself, but the Senate and, perhaps, the nation as well.
But why? Why now, when America is in turmoil, stricken by joblessness…