Quote (thesnipa @ 9 Oct 2020 22:02)
i just dont see the distinction as much of a valid thing. we're so polarized and actual legislation is so rare that 99% of what they do is base pandering. senate/house get paid to literally do almost nothing. imagine any other job where your efficiency rate is 1%.
But this efficiency rate is not the fault of the individual members of Congress, it's the fault of the voters who cant agree on anything and constantly refuse to give any one side a working majority to actually legislate/govern, instead voting for a gridlocked federal government and executive.
Ever since 2000, the country is notoriously gridlocked - of the past 20 years, only 4 of them had either side with unified control of both chambers of Congress plus the presidency. And in 2 out of those 4 years (jan 2017-2019), the party in charge had only tiny majorities and no clear mandate by the people. And the one time one side had trifecta control and a clear mandate (jan 2009-2011), Americans responded to their efforts with one of the worst electoral backlashes in history.
That's like a boss who takes away the pcs from his programmers, who instead have to dictate their lines of code to stenographers, who in turn communicate the code via phone to blind typesetters at the other end of the country. And then the boss wonders why the code output of his team is abysmal.