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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
Not necessarily true, but that seems to be the end result. New high-minded people get elected to Congress and they are immediately whipsawed into following the orders of the party leaders. Those are the guys and gals who got their positions as the result of being re-elected so many times that they know the ins and outs of how to beat the newbies into submission.
Is this the system that the founding fathers had in mind?
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If the nation has so degenerated that our representatives are nothing but party hacks who respond like Pavlonian dogs when their masters riign the campaign contribution bell - and we as voters accept this conduct - then the next amendment to the US Constitution should change the Preamble to read
"We, The Sheeple"
Is this the legacy we leave behind?