No, actually, we have some fairly functional people in Congress.
They are heinously self-interested and often vote pork and lobbyist groups, of course, but we do the same thing with our own little domains (hacking, free music, code, entrepreneurship). Very people have the ability to have the grand vision, and fewer have the ability to put that view in effect.
But we could have much worse. Much, much worse. A brief survey of world history in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s should serve to illustrate the meaning of "worse".
They are heinously self-interested and often vote pork and lobbyist groups, of course, but we do the same thing with our own little domains (hacking, free music, code, entrepreneurship). Very people have the ability to have the grand vision, and fewer have the ability to put that view in effect.
But we could have much worse. Much, much worse. A brief survey of world history in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s should serve to illustrate the meaning of "worse".