18 Jun 2022 8:16 pm
Vegas » 18 Jun 2022, 12:26 pm » wrote: ↑ Approval ratings for congress are habitually low. They always have been. There are a couple years, 2001-2002, that were high, but overall, their approval ratings are usually embarrassingly low. The data here only goes back to 1974, but it's not a stretch to say that it's always this way. So, here is what confuses me. Across the board, Americans agree that our congress is inept. Leftwingers, rightwingers, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, or moderates. The common ground is that we think they are incompetent. Yet, there is such a divide in the country, though we all agree that the government is incompetent, no matter what year it is. What exactly are we all fighting about? https://www.thoughtco.com/congress-appr ... ry-3368257
What is likely the first senate in human history was instituted by Romulus in Ancient Rome. Those senators tended to be decrepit old men, corrupt, who sought favor with the Roman emperor (and also the pope, later on) more than they served constituents.
https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2020/09/the-r ... -s-senate/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_of ... man_Empire
The U.S. senate, and congress, are the spiritual successors to the ancient version, and like them, our current critters have no power and are merely seeking to gain prestige and and status by *** kissing those with real power (the Jewish bankers, various oligarchs who run industry, and the president to a lesser degree).