Why is Congress broken? | reTHINK TANK

These days politicians seem to be more focused on grandstanding and performing for their base than making compromises and lasting legislative change. A functional Congress would push against these incentives and tendencies, but Congress has broken down. So what broke Congress? AEI's Yuval Levin explores the factors that have led to these institutional challenges, and how Congress could get back on track.

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[orangezest]

They should get paid like the English Parliament.

[phillipliu]

❤ Congress is not broken 😠 ohhh Congress is corrupted, aipac said we own Congress’s 😮😮🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱ohhh

[SymmetricalDocking]

Read Keys to the Kingdom. Corruption is inherent in the operation of every form of government from the most dictatorial monarchy to the loosest anarchy state.

[richdobbs]

The Constitution failed to persist a limited federal government. No surprise that didn't persist a balanced branched form of government, since it wasn't able to anticipate the growth of political parties. It didn't understand that in a Republic with political parties that rather than needing to have checks and balances between different branch of federal government, that the real checks needed to be on the power of the federal government.

[RG-vctr]

"No person's wallet is safe when congress is in session" (paraphrased, Benjamin Franklin)
In short, Congress does it's best work when they are in gridlock and NOTHING gets done. New laws never fall in the people's favor.