Something that our founding Father's didn't count on in the Constitution

The founding Fathers vision was that our Senators and Representatives would leave their farms and businesses and travel to Washington.
While there, they would do the business of the country and of the people...and then return home to tend their obligations there.
There were no lobbyists, no 24 hour news cycles to interfere with doing the job they were sent to do.

The other thing that wasn't a factor was--the never-ending election cycle.

Nowadays, many of our elected officials act cowardly because they are afraid that they won't get re-elected, and their lack of courage is devastating our country. Very little business gets done in Washington these days--in fact, not enough business that these members of Congress couldn't go just spend a week a year to get it done.

Send them back to their homes, pay them a small stipend, take away their perks--because if they are SO willing to trade away the rights, the salaries, the benefits of HARD-WORKING Americans...then we need to take a good hard look at THEIR productivity.

we have strayed so far away from that ideal that it has become unrecognizable.

Nor was extreme, dogmatic partisanship.

Mrs. Powel, Philadelphia -asked Ben Franklin as he left the Constitutional Convention of 1787;
"Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation Franklin said, "A republic, if you can keep it."


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"A Republic, if you can keep it"....one of the best books I have ever read.

"Hooray For Me and Fuck You" ...or was that Cee Lo Green?:shrug:

This book about Thurgood Marshall was great, 'Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall'. He's one of my heroes.

Thanks for the thread, Horse with no Name.:thumbsup: