Lawmakers fleeing office in DC

..a sea of change coming and prefer to NOT be remembered as one of those washed overboard. Pride does all it can to avoid embarrassment.

Both parties seem to think they're just going to leapfrog one another forever. As long as they can find reason to fight, they have jobs. That needs to stop, IMO.

Gridlock is better than what they probably would be doing otherwise. The last thing I want to see is them cooperating on preying on us.

to job loss if they aren't responsive to their constituency.

Look at TV. Everything there is one group fighting some other group. Argument becomes entertainment. Violence is entertainment. Insulting moral values is entertainment. Law vs criminals is entertainment. Survivor shows based on trashing someone each week. Everything is increasingly polarized now because America has corrupted it's social mean, twisted it's legal mean, and belittled it's religious mean.

It's like here at times, not honest discussion but one says up so the other says down, one says left so the other says right, just so long as they can be in disagreement even where there is no need to be, nor for it to continue, people of deliberately contrary attitude not necessarily based on any principle, just who they are replying to. We know who they are. They must have the last word so bad it becomes a joke. Playing the game just to expose their ridiculousness risks looking just like them.

So, why blame the politicians when they are only reflecting our society as it now exists? I say blame them because they are supposed to be better, act better, lead toward better, if they are holding such offices. Even if we had 10% turn over of the Senate and the House every 2 years, it would take 20 years to have a completely new group in there, probably longer. I don't believe in term limits though, since people should be able to elect whomever they want to represent them. I think those who in past have managed to retain their seats due to seniority and committee asignments would lose those seats quicker if we insisted the seniority rules were tossed out as unconstitutional and each election everyone was on equal footing when they entered the Senate or House. We obviously can't have all inexperienced people in Washington, but we need to insist the rules which encourage states to reelect some to office based mainly on the power they've garnered while there should be changed.

Look at history. This is not new or novel at all.

Before Radio and TV. The worst thing then was the newspaper and many of them were just once per week. Life is still a lot more pleasant when the TV is turned off.

And so on.

I've heard that before, not that long ago.

Look at news readers today and what they focus on. Is it areas of peace and serenity? You'd think these don't exist. Reading history is reading mostly about periods of struggle and not much about calm. That's too boring. Sure there's always been conflict in government by my sense is that, at one time, there was still respect shown quite openly for ones opponents. I don't get much of that sense today. Of course with today's media and technology, we have politicians and news people each considering the other as a tool to be worked with and manipulated. Our media shows respect to no one.