...to throw the whole bunch out and start over, this week tells the tale.

It makes no difference whether they're Democrat or Republican, ultra-conservative, independent or progressive. Our system of government is broken and desperately needs to be fixed.

Maybe the structure of our government is OK--the Constitution, rule of law, one person-one vote, and all. But the people we have put there to function the way our forefathers and the framers of our system of government intended are some combination of incompetent, self-serving, idealogs, demagogs, whatever. And the system we've permitted to develop that lets the person or company or party with the most money run the country for their best interests is NOT democracy!

Maybe a first step before we totally give up on our system of government is to start with an entirely new set of elected representatives, in both the legislative as well as the executive branch. I can't think of any other way.

Sadly, I don't think even that will work.