The System Is Down

Can the people file a class-action suit against the senate? Our representatives are more concerned with knifing the other party than the country’s well-being. And the minority party is using an unconstitutional tactic to get their way. That fifteen percent of the population can effectively block legislation backed by the majority of Americans is simply not democracy.

To be clear, I’m disgusted with both parties. Politics will always involve compromise, but the health care debate is bordering on farcical. The current situation has overtones of an exasperated parent calming a tantrum-throwing two-year-old. The Rebublicans have their collective fingers in their ears, stubbornly screaming “NO” while the Democrats keep making concessions in an effort to get the howling brat to stop making a scene in public. Neither strategy is politically viable in the long term.

It’s a shame the current political environment is so hostile to reason that intelligent people with sensible solutions to real problems take the only logical course of action—to stay out of politics.